The Seoul Industry Promotion Agency announced on the 10th that it will hold an online voting event for visitors of the ‘Room Corner Indie Game Show 2022’, which will be held from August 11 to 17.
The ‘Bangguseok Indie Game Show’, jointly hosted by the Seoul Industry Promotion Agency, Gyeonggi Content Agency, and Neowiz, and participated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and Gyeonggi Province as main sponsors, is an online game exhibition held to introduce various and excellent games from small and medium-sized game developers in Korea.
A total of 156 games were exhibited on the website of the 2021 Indie Game Show in the corner of the room last year, and 22,280 people visited it, establishing itself as a festival venue where game developers and game-loving citizens meet and a representative indie game event in Korea.
At the 2022 event, 185 domestic indie games and 30 overseas indie games will be exhibited. Among them, the ‘BEX Awards’ will be held to award excellent indie games by combining online audience votes and expert evaluations for domestic games.
In the ‘BEX Awards’, three works in the released section, two works in the unreleased section, the Metaverse Special Award, the Jury Prize, the Encouragement Award, and the Popularity Award are awarded.
The ‘G-RANK Challenge Seoul Award’ is a game awards ceremony operated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government and the Seoul Industry Promotion Agency since 2016 to revitalize the domestic game industry and support small and medium-sized game companies. Wittgen’s and the daily , which won the Grand Prize at the 2016 Google Indie Game Festival, are among others.
IGF is a global indie game event that has been held since 1998 in the United States. It awards a total of eight categories for games from around the world, and offers prizes ranging from about $2,000 to $10,000.
The online audience voting will be held for about 7 days from the 11th to the 17th, and you can participate by visiting the Indie Game Show 2022 website in the corner of the room.
After voting for the game that you think is interesting or excellent on the Indie Game Show website in the corner of the room, you can submit a verification shot on the event application page.
Jeon Dae-hyun, head of the content division at the Seoul Industry Promotion Agency, said, “I hope that through this event, excellent games in Korea will be known and a culture of enjoying various games will be formed. We will spare no effort to support the expansion further,” he said.
