Swedish Game Awards is

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development competition. It has been held annually since 2002 and is organized by the student-driven, non-profit entrepreneurship association at the

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, Excitera. The competition's audience is students at Swedish universities and high schools, particularly those studying

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. Funding is handled through partnerships with various software and game development companies, e.g.

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History

Swedish Game Awards started in 2002 as a PC-only game competition under the name KTH Game Awards, and was targeted mainly at students in the

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area. KTH Game Awards was founded by the KTH students Yashar Moradbakhti, Bartek Gudowski, Mikael Pommert and Andreas Harju. In 2004, KTH Game Awards was merged with another competition organized by Excitera, called the Excitera Mobile Award. This led to the creation of special class for

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games. After its first iteration, the name was changed to Swedish Game Awards to reflect the increase in scope from local to national competition, as well as the fact that the competition had grown to be the largest of its kind in Sweden.Swedish Game Awards 2011 – History
In 2014 the competitions hosts changed from students of

to students of

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(while still maintaining its cooperation with Excitera). In 2015 the competition added the category Best Diversity Effort as a result of their co-operation with Diversi to reflect the games industry's increasing interest in variation of its developers and consumers. The final day of the competition also ha
its first livestream
on YouTube by cooperating with students of Medieinstitutet to make the announcement of the winners available directly to the public. It also broke the previous record of submitted games in 2014 (which was 98) with 104 games. The competition has gradually gained recognition from Swedish game development companies and universities as a way for students to show their game development capabilities and thus increase their chances of getting employment within the

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Competition Award History

Current Categories

Game of the Year

:2017: Rope's Adventure :2016
Notes of Obsession
:2015
Adventure on Clover island
:2014:

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:2013
Epigenesis
:2012
Secrets of Grindea
:2011: Dead Meets Lead :2010
Dwarfs!?
:2009:

Bloodline Champions ''Bloodline Champions'' is a free-to-play action game developed by the Swedish company Stunlock Studios, with strong resemblances to the multiplayer online battle arena genre. ''Bloodline Champions'' won both "Game of the Year" and "Winner XNA" i ...

:2008:

Magicka ''Magicka'' is an action-adventure game developed by Arrowhead Game Studios. It was released via Steam for Microsoft Windows on January 25, 2011. ''Magicka'' is based on Norse mythology. Up to four mages of a sacred order travel to fight agai ...

:2007: Puzzlegeddon :2006: Dawnspire: Prelude :2005:

CrazyBall ''Switchball'' is a 3D action-puzzle game, made by the Swedish developer Atomic Elbow, which was released for Microsoft Windows on June 26, 2007, on Xbox Live Arcade for the Xbox 360 on November 7, and on PlayStation Network for the PlayStation 3 ...

:2004: Saga of Ina :2003: Xazzon

Best Execution in Art

:2017
Pump the Frog
:2016
Super Neon Drifter
:2015
Adventure on Clover island
:2014: Piggy

Best Execution in Audio

:2017: Pick your potion :2016: Notes of Obsession :2015: Sons of Eye Championship :2014: Beat It

Best Diversity Effort

:2017: Softa med Oss: the last assignment :2016
Sam and Nicole
:2015
Iris & Earl

Best Execution in Design

:2017: Rope's Adventure :2016
Cryptogram
:2015
Frog Climbers
:2014: Cubetrip

Best Execution in Narrative

:2018: :2017
Eyes Align
:2016
Cryptogram
:2015: Adal's Vikings :2014: Siege of Stockholm

Best Technical Execution

:2017: Pick your Potion :2016
Cryptogram
:2015
Rymdstenar
:2014: Magneti

Best Mobile Execution

:2018
Cosette's Cassettes

Gamers' Choice

:2017
Penny's Farm
:2016
Lance A Lot
:2015
Frog Climbers
:2014
Flash and crash
:2013
Fly or Die
:2012: Build 'n' Break :2010: Eggnappers :2009: Conquer the Hood :2008: Boingo

Previous Categories

Best Execution

:2013
Little Warlock
:2012: --- :2011: --- :2010: Br00t4l Qwest :2009: Imperii :2008: Boingo

Best Mobile Game

:2013: ''Dungeon Heroes'' :2012: ''Forlorn'' :2011: ''Block Breaker'' :2010: ''Phoenix Spirit'' :2008: ''Swarm'' by

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:2007: ''Magnotix'' :2006: ''Quantum'' :2005: ''Ice Cakes''

Best Innovation

:2013
King of the Thrill
:2012: Blobbz Online :2011: Zap the Bugs :2010: Block Tower Wars :2009: Carpet Wrestling :2008:

Blueberry Garden ''Blueberry Garden'' is a puzzle-platform game. It was developed by Erik Svedäng and released on June 10, 2009, for Microsoft Windows, and on January 24, 2014, for Mac OS X and Linux via Steam. It has a piano soundtrack written by Daduk. It is t ...

:2007:

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:2006
Sumo
:2005
Promqueen
:2004: War, Siege & Conquest

Miscellaneous Awards

:2015: Game of the Year Nominees: The Hungry Maw From Outer Space
Frog Climbers
Rymdresa :2013: Best Scenario: Grief :2011: Jury honour nomination: Unmechanical :2010: Best Web Game: Continuity :2009: Best XNA game:

:2009: Best Java FX: Imperii :2007: Best XNA game: Gravitron Ultra :2007: Jury honour nomination: Streambolt Desero, Boiler, Raven Tale :2007: Best PC game runner up: Harvest: Massive Encounter :2007: Best mobile game runner up: Heximon :2006: Jury honour nomination: Deadbolt :2005: Sony Ericsson Mobile Java 3D Award: 3D Cube :2004: Jury honour nomination: Hockey

Current Competition

The 2014-2015 competition is organized by a team of Stockholm-based university students in various fields related to game design.
In its 13th year, the Swedish Game Awards continues annually to draw greater numbers of entries from student-development teams across Sweden.

Rules

The parameters to the competition have remained relatively stable over the years, aimed toward providing a launching pad for talented, independent, student game developers to develop new and marketable games.
The official rules are available at http://gameawards.se/competition/rules.

Event Timeline

The process of the Swedish Game Awards spans the majority of each academic year. Beginning in October with the SGA Kickoff, previous winners, current jury members, and corporate sponsors are invited to present their perspectives of the game industry and the Swedish Game Awards in particular to the upcoming year's participants. Also at this time, the various award categories are announced. The competition submissions are developed by independent teams during the year, culminating in a Jury Weekend and Grand Finale party in late May. In the early months of the competition, the SGA Tour also occurs. During the tour, representatives from the Swedish Game Awards visit universities and technical schools across the country to engage with competition participants.

Partners

Main Partners

King (company) King.com Limited is a Swedish-British video game developer and publisher that specialises in social games. Since 2016, it is one of 3 publishing businesses of Activision Blizzard. Headquartered in Stockholm and London, and incorporated in St. ...

DICE A die (: dice, sometimes also used as ) is a small, throwable object with marked sides that can rest in multiple positions. Dice are used for generating random values, commonly as part of tabletop games, including dice games, board games, ro ...

Arrowhead Game Studios Arrowhead Game Studios is a Swedish video game development company, established in 2008 by a group of Luleå University of Technology students. History Johan Pilestedt and Emil Englund, studying Luleå University of Technology in Skellefteå, ...

Sweden Game Arena Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic country by both area an ...

Autodesk Autodesk, Inc. is an American multinational software corporation that provides software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, and entertainment industries. Autodesk is headquarte ...

Gold Partners

MAG Interactive

Silver Partners

Paradox Interactive Paradox Interactive AB is a video game publisher based in Stockholm, Sweden. The company started out as the video game division of Target Games and then Paradox Entertainment (now Cabinet Entertainment) before being spun out into an independ ...

Epic Games Epic Games, Inc. is an American Video game developer, video game and software development, software developer and video game publisher, publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney (game developer), Tim Sween ...

Bronze Partners

Rovio Entertainment Rovio Entertainment Oy (formerly Relude Oy and Rovio Mobile Oy) is a Finnish video game developer and publisher based in Espoo. Founded in 2003 by Helsinki University of Technology students Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert, the c ...

Avalanche Studios Avalanche Studios Group is a Swedish video game developer and publisher based in Stockholm. It is a parent company that includes Avalanche Studios, Expansive Worlds, and Systemic Reaction. Founded by Linus Blomberg and Christofer Sundberg in M ...

Current Categories

: Game of the Year : Gamers' Choice : Best Diversity Effort : Best Execution in Art : Best Execution in Audio : Best Execution in Design : Best Execution in Narrative : Best Technical Execution

Previous Competition

Previous Partners

Here is a list of previous partners that have sponsored the Swedish Game Awards in some way in the past.

Previous Main Partners

HP,

Intel Intel Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and Delaware General Corporation Law, incorporated in Delaware. Intel designs, manufactures, and sells computer compo ...

ARM In human anatomy, the arm refers to the upper limb in common usage, although academically the term specifically means the upper arm between the glenohumeral joint (shoulder joint) and the elbow joint. The distal part of the upper limb between ...

Previous Gold Partners

Mali DEVELOPER CENTER Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa. It is the eighth-largest country in Africa, with an area of over . The country is bordered to the north by Algeria, to the east by Niger, to the northwest by Mauri ...

Previous Silver Partners

Wooga Wooga is a German game software company based in Berlin that develops story-driven casual games for mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets and social networks like Facebook. It has developed mobile games such as ''June's Journey'', ''P ...

Stardoll Stardoll is a browser-based game from Glorious Games. One of the world's largest online fashion communities, Stardoll had reached over 400 million users . Focusing on an audience that is often overlooked by the gaming industry, Stardoll is o ...

, Fondia, Grand Cru Games

Previous Bronze Partners

, Easy Studios, Junebud, Gamers Gate, Swedish National Defence College,

, Bitsquid, Hansoft

Previous Event Partners

EasyTryck.se

Previous Media Partners

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Previous Awards

: Best Execution : Best Innovation : Best Mobile Game : Best Scenario : Best Serious Game

References

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External links

YouTube Channel
- YouTube Channel (since 2015).
YouTube Channel
- Old YouTube Channel (2009-2010).
Facebook Page
- Official Facebook Page.
Twitter Page
- Official Twitter Page (since 2015).
Swedish Game Awards
- Official Site
Swedish Game Awards Concept Art Challenge
- Mini-challenge, Concept Art Challenge, Official Site
Swedish Game Awards Warmup Competition
- Mini-challenge, Warmup Competition, Official Site
SGA TV
- Videos, Interviews, and More Video game awards Video game festivals Swedish awards Game awards Video gaming in Sweden 2002 establishments in Sweden Awards established in 2002