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Gratz to the 2023 Silv-E Winners!
December 18, 2023
This year 375 people voted for our Silv-E awards - 360 for the audience choice awards and 15 judges for the rest (including the amazing Warren Spector, who spent three days playing all the games and giving feedback to the devs. This year our sponsors were Chip Silvey, Puzzles by Joe, and Wacom, which provided Wacom One Pen Tablets to the winners of best game and best art. Our winners took home more than $2,000 in cash and prizes.
Best Game
Audience Choice
Best Art
Best Audio
Best Design
Best Production
Best Student Game
Best Made in GA
7 tied for second
Most Fun
2022 Winners
Best Game: Seneca 7: A Cyberpunk Odyssey
Audience Choice: LightBreak
Best Booth: LightBreak
Best Costume: Sarah Lanzing
Made in Georgia: Athanasia
Best Analog Game: Dalarna
Best Production: LightBreak
Best Design: Flower Fusion
Most Fun: Clue Formula
Best Student Game: Coalescence
Best Art: Guardian
Best Audio: LightBreak
2021 Winners
Best Game: Urchins & Ink
Audience Choice: The Balloonatics of Gusty Gulch
Best Booth: Hiccup Interactive
Best Costume: Brook Burgh
Made in Georgia: Panic Porcupine
Best Analog Game: The Balloonatics of Gusty Gulch
Best Production: Vertical Shift
Best Design: The Balloonatics of Gusty Gulch
Most Fun: Potato Party
Best Student Game: Payload
Best Art: Thin Ice
Best Audio: There You Are
2020
Best Game ($500) Video Hole
Made in Georgia ($100) Zap Blastum
Best Production ($100) Zap Blastum
Most Fun ($100) Pushamo
Best Multiplatform Game ($100) Baby Adopter
Best Student Game ($100) Heirloom
Best Design ($100) Pushamo
Best Art ($100) Potato Paradox Plus
Best Audio ($100) Heirloom
Best Mobile ($100) TiltBill
Best Narrative Design ($100) Tale of the Gallant Jirayia
Audience Choice ($100) Vertical Shift
2019
Four winners of the 2019 Silver Excellence in Indie Games (Silv-E) award received the news (and checks) at SIEGE. The winners are:
Best in Show: Zap Blastum, Shiny Dolphin Games
Best Design: Malintent, Hiccup Interactive
Best Production: Justice Rises, Justice Rises VR
Most Fun: Mop Boy, Mop Boy Studios
The Silver Award for Excellence in Indie Game Development offers a prize pool plus recognition for great new games. Submit your game HERE by Sept. 15 to be considered
Silv-E Eligibility and Rules
The Silv-E awards are opened to games that had 10 or less developers and a budget of $10,000 or less. The game must be either unreleased or have only entered distribution in the current year.
Entries must have the rights to and allow the GGDA to freely livestream their games and put video of them online. Entries must be willing to discuss their game development with the Silv-E winners. Entries must provide judges ways to play the game.
Games that have already won a Silv-E award are not eligible in future years, but the developers can enter new games and sequels.
No game can win more than two Silv-E categories. The “Best Game” winner is not eligible for any other award.
To be eligible for the “Best Student Game” award, all developers must have been enrolled in an accredited school (college or lower) during the development process.
The submission must not contain material that promotes bigotry, racism, hatred or harm against any group or individual or promotes discrimination based on race, gender, religion, nationality, disability, sexual orientation or age; and
The GGDA reserves the right to reject any game from consideration for a Silv-E award.
Submitting your game for consideration indicates your acceptance of these rules.
Current awards include: Best Game, Made in Georgia, Best Production, Best Design, Most Fun, Best Student Game, Best Analog Game, Best Audio, Best Art, Audience Choice
