– The 4th Indie Game Show 2023 Awards, held offline at Neowiz Pangyo Tower
– Awards will be held for 11 games in 6 categories, including released titles, scheduled releases, and special awards.
Neowiz (Co-CEOs Seung-Cheol Kim and Tae-geun Bae) won the ‘BIGS Award,’ the awards ceremony of the domestic indie game festival ‘BIGS: Banggusuk Indie Game Show 2023 (from now on referred to as BIGS 2023)’ held in August. ‘ was born on the 16th.
The awards ceremony was held at Neowiz Pangyo Tower at 2 p.m. on the 13th. The BEX Awards selected 11 games in 6 special award categories, including the released and scheduled to be released types, through evaluation by professional judges. The winning works will receive 100 million(KRW) worth of support, including prize money and marketing.
First, in the ▲released work category awarded by the Seoul Economic Promotion Agency, Team Tetrapod’s ‘Stepper Case: Superpower Mystery Adventure’ and Olaf Games’ ‘X Invader’ were honored with awards. In addition, ‘PIO’ by Star Star and ‘Cube of Life: Resurrection’ by Horn Spirit won the ▲ Upcoming Release Category awarded by the Gyeonggi Content Agency.
In addition, ▲’IfSunSets’ by Polymorph Co., Ltd. was named in the Megazone Cloud Special Award, ▲New Core Games’ ‘The Devil Within: Satgat’ was named in the Megazone Cloud Excellence Award, and ▲Egg Tart was awarded the Unity Cozycat’s ‘Color Town’ won the Special Award in the ▲Unity GROW Special Award category.
In addition, ▲DPOLY’s ‘Survival Together’ and We Plan B’s ‘Dungeon is Our Home’ in the Hive Platform Special Award category, and ▲Tripearl Games’ ‘VEDA’ in the Stove Indie Special Award category enjoyed the joy of receiving awards.
Meanwhile, BEX 2023, being held for the 4th time this year, is a game festival to support indie game companies experiencing difficulties in promotion during the coronavirus situation. It was co-hosted by Neowiz, Gyeonggi Content Agency, and Seoul Economic Promotion Agency and jointly hosted by Neowiz and Megazone Cloud. In addition, various companies such as Unity, Stove Indie, One Store, Hive, Twitch, Inven, and Ruliweb participated as sponsors.
A Neowiz official said, “We were able to see creative and unique special games at this BEX event,” and added, “We plan to continue providing diverse support for indie games in the future.”