Unity Awards 2013 finalists announced
Unity Technologies has announced the finalists for its 2013 Unity Awards, taking place during the company's Unite 2013 conference in Vancouver, Canada.
Categories for this year’s awards include: Best Student Project, Best 3D Visual Experience, Best 2D Visual Experience, Best Gameplay, Best Non-game Project, Best VizSim Project, Technical Achievement, Community Choice, and the Golden Cube for best overall project.
Finalists were selected from a pool of nearly 375 submissions and winners will be chosen by Unity Technologies employees aside from Community Choice, which will be voted on by the Unity community of developers.
Here's the list:
Golden Cube
Endless-space -Amplitude Studios
Kentucky Route Zero - Cardboard Computer
Offensive Combat - U4iA Games
Pid - Might & Delight
The Room - Fireproof
Year Walk - Simogo
Best 3D Visual Experience
Endless-space - Amplitude Studios
Guns of Icarus Online - Muse Games
Kentucky Route Zero - Cardboard Computer
New PAL Online - Dream
Pid - Might & Delight
The Drowning - Scattered Entertainment
Best 2D Visual Experience
Element4l -I-Illusions, View game
Girls Like Robots - Popcannibal
Strata - Graveck
The Other Brothers - 3D Attack,
The Silent Age -House on Fire
Year Walk - Simogo
Best Gameplay
Bad Piggies - Rovio
Endless-space - Amplitude Studios
Offensive Combat - U4iA Games
Pid - Might & Delight
Solstice Arena - A Bit Lucky, View game
The Room - Fireproof
Technical Achievement
Ballistic - Aquiris
Endless-space - Amplitude Studios
Marmoset Skyshop - Marmoset,
Museum of the Microstar - RUST LTD
Sphero - Sharky the Beaver - Sphero
The Drowning - Scattered Entertainment
Best VizSim Project
Datascape - Daden
Preview - Holopoint Interactive in conjunction with Bennett Design
Roman Forum - Department of Media and Comunication at the University of Oslo in close collaboration with CodeGrind AB and Tag of Joy
Sports Venue Planner - Vizerra
TeamLabBody - TeamLabBody, Inc.
TerraViz - NOAA
Best Non-game Project
Become Iron Man - Apache
Immersive - GraphicStream
iTrigger - Poj Studios
Louvre Lens's Multimedia Mobile Guide - Orange in association with Louvre Lens and Polymorph
Pajanimals - N-Fusion
Sneak a Snack - U.n.I Interactive
Best Student Project
Lens - Out of Focus Games - UC Santa Cruz
Noomix - Missing Kangaroo Productions - University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg
Of Light and Shadow - 12 Angry Devs - University of Applied Sciences, Salzburg
Shattered - Jan Werner & Yury Schicker/Zurich University of the Arts
SmartVCS - Girish Balakrishnan/Drexel University
Tessallation - David Bayzer, Sean Cannata, Graham Gilreath, Christopher Klein, Kristen Lambert, Eric Spevacek - DePaul University
Community Choice
Bad Piggies - Rovio
Fantasy Adventure - USERJOY
Endless-space -Amplitude Studios
Kentucky Route Zero - Cardboard Computer
Knights of Pen and Paper - Behold Studios
New PAL Online - Dream
Solstice Arena - A Bit Lucky
Surgeon Simulator 2013 - Bossa
The Room - Fireproof
Year Walk - Simogo
The Unite 2013 conference starts August 28 with a keynote address from David Helgason, Joachim Ante, and Lucas Meijer with guest keynote presentation given by Richard Garriott.
Other sessions will be provided by: Behaviour Games, Blackbird Interactive, Interactive Labs, Monkey Squad, Psyops, Threaks, and many more.
Unite 2013 takes place August 28 - 30 at the Vancouver Convention Centre. The Unity Awards ceremony will take place on Thursday, August 29.