Jury
Our interdisciplinary, international and 100% independent jury has the honor to review all nominees.
Aluta Null
They/She
South Africa
Aluta Null is a digital artist and game designer whose work spans videos, games, extended reality, and experimental media. Aluta explores the chaos of human existence - tackling politics, perception, technology, and pop culture; always with a subversive wink.
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Luis Díaz Peralta aka Ludipe
He/Him
Spain
I’m Luis (or Ludipe) and I’m a game designer based in Madrid. I do a bit of everything, work for clients, my own indie games, and lots of experimental projects for fun. You can find around 80 free tiny games on my itch.io profile. I have also worked managing events, grants for game developers, teaching degree students, and some other things.
Sarah Reimann
She/Her
Germany
Sarah Reimann studied dramaturgy at the Leipzig University of Music and Theatre and theatre studies at the Free University of Berlin. After working as a freelance dramaturg at various production houses, she has been working at HAU Hebbel am Ufer since 2012, currently as a curator for the digital stage HAU4. Games are a focus of the digital stage programme.
Somi
He/Him
Republic of Korea
Somi is a solo indie game developer based in Busan, South Korea. He strives to create games with original structures that are outside the typical framework of existing games, and he wants to express through games the suffering of individuals in an uncaring world. His best-known works include the Guilt Trilogy and the recently released No Case Should Remain Unsolved, which won last years Most Amazing Award.
Tanja Tankred
She/Her
Denmark
Tanja is a designer, writer, and artist who is especially intrigued by storytelling in video games. Together with Mira Dorthé, she co-founded Other Tales Interactive, an indie studio focused on experimental, story-driven tales. The studio has released the game collection Miniatures (which won last years WINGS Award) and the two-player puzzler Tick Tock: A Tale for Two.