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2015 TIGA Games Industry Awards Winners Revealed
[November 13, 2015]

2015 TIGA Games Industry Awards Winners Revealed


LONDON, November 13, 2015 /PRNewswire/ --

TIGA, the independent games association, today announces the winners of the 2015 TIGA Awards following a glittering ceremony held on 12th November at LSO St Luke's in London, to celebrate the best in creativity, innovation and business in the UK games industry.

18 months on from the introduction of tax breaks for the UK games industry, the great and the good of UK games development came together under one roof in a celebration of the excellence of small and large games companies making incredibly creative and inspiring work over the past year.

The public vote for the TIGA Game of the Year Award broke last year's record to receive nearly 30,000 individual votes, demonstrating the growing popularity of the awards, which are designed to recognise and reward games businesses of all sizes.


TIGA's charity partner for the 2015 awards was SpecialEffect, an organisation dedicated to using technology to enhance the quality of life of people with physical disabilities.


Dr Richard Wilson, TIGA CEO, said: "The TIGA Awards are designed to commend, congratulate and celebrate. At our Awards Ceremony last night we applauded and highlighted excellence in games and business, education and technology, diversity and creativity. I would like to say a huge congratulations to all of our winners, whose creativity and excellence is driving the games industry forward."


"Our judges were pleased to have the challenging task of judging work that has the power to stop us in our tracks. Well done again to everyone that entered, those who were shortlisted and those who eventually won. We would also like to thank all of our generous sponsors and partners, as well as everyone who has supported the awards."


The 2015 TIGA Games Industry Awards Winners 




 
 Best Action/Adventure Game - Large Studio Supermassive Games: Until Dawn
 Best Action/Adventure Game - Small Studio Payload Studios: Terra Tech
 Best Arcade Game - Large Studio Rebellion: Zombie Army Trilogy
 Best Arcade Game - Small Studio Red Phantom Games: Minutes
 Best Audio Design Radiant Worlds:SkySaga
 Best Casual Game - Large Studio Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio: Grow Home
 Best Casual Game - Small Studio Chilled Mouse: Chime Sharp
 The Chinese Room: Everybody's Gone To The
 Best Creative Gameplay Rapture
 Best Debut Game Freejam: Robocraft Unleashed
 Diversity Award Team 17 Digital Ltd / Tiger & Squid: Beyond
 Eyes

 David Smith: Interactive Selection for his
 work with Women in Games
 Best Game with A Purpose - Large Studio Aardman Animations: Sustainable Shaun
 Best Game with A Purpose - Small Studio GamelabUK: The Boris Games
 Sony Computer Entertainment Europe:
 Most Original Game Bloodborne
 Best Social Game - Large Studio Sony Computer Entertainment:
 LittleBigPlanet3
 Best Social Game - Small Studio Legendary Games: Year 0:Tactics
 Ninja Theory: DmC: Devil May Cry Definitive
 Best Visual Design Edition
 Best Animation Supplier Speech Graphics
 Best Art Supplier Leading Light Design
 Best Audio Supplier Side
 Best Education Initiative & Talent
 Development Grads in Games (Aardvark Swift)
 Best Educational Institution Sheffield Hallam University
 Best Independent Studio Space Ape Games
 Best In House Studio Rare
 Outstanding Leadership Award Debbie Bestwick, CEO of Team17 Digital Ltd
 Best Legal Services Supplier Stevens & Bolton LLP
 Best Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment
 Best QA Provider Universally Speaking
 Best Recruitment Agency Amiqus
 Best Start Up Playtonic Games
 Best Tax and Accountancy Firm MMP Tax Limited
 UK Heritage Award Sumo Digital
 Best Engines, Middleware, Tools and Tech Marmalade
 Best Technical Innovation Simplygon
 Outstanding Individual Carl Cavers Sumo Digital
 Game of the Year Space Ape Games: Rival Kingdoms

For the 2015 Awards TIGA was delighted to announce its key partners - made up of the vanguard of the UK videogame industry. These include platinum sponsors Supermicro, gold sponsors King, Team17 and Jigsaw24, and silver sponsors Playground Games, Sumo Digital, Havoc, Marmalade, Universally Speaking, Abertay University, Ubisoft Reflections, Epic Games. AQA, Unreal Engine and SoftLayer. Bronze sponsors include  MMP, Amiqus, Weightmans, Stevens & Bolton LLP, Radiant Worlds, Centroid Motion Capture, Creative England, Grads In Games, Perforce, Timali, Sheridans, Simplygon, SpaceApe, GameBench.

About TIGA 


TIGA is the network for games developers and digital publishers and the trade association representing the video games industry. Since 2010, TIGA has won 24 business awards and commendations. TIGA focuses on three sets of activities:

  • Political representation
  • Media representation
  • Business services

This enhances the competitiveness of our members by providing benefits that make a material difference to their businesses, including a reduction in costs and improved commercial opportunities. It also means our members'voices are heard in the corridors of power and positively represented in national, broadcast and UK video game trade media.

Get in touch:

Tel: +44-0845-468-2330
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.tiga.org
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