Charity organization Safe In Our World announced the finalists for the upcoming Game Dev Champions Awards Showcase, premiering Saturday, December 7 on YouTube.
The Awards Showcase highlights the Mental Health Game Dev Champions game jam from earlier this year. The event, hosted by Safe In Our World, encouraged new developments to participate, and provided classes teaching game development as well as development tools.
“We’re incredibly proud of everybody who got involved. From the game jammers all the way to sponsors like Xbox and Discord,” said Sarah Sorrell, Charity Director, Safe In Our World. “Your creativity and passion has shown us how games can be an important vehicle to tackle the often underrepresented subject of mental health.”
Here are the 25 finalists that will be featured in the Awards Showcase, with links to learn more and play them yourself:
- A Place to Start
- Close Knit
- Coyote Summer
- Emotional Damage
- For Tomorrow
- Glass Thoughts
- Growing Pains
- Incomplete Books In My Garden
- Just a Month
- Letters
- Life in Small Steps
- Magical Greenhouse v0.1
- Mind Over Machine
- On Constant Delay
- On the Trajectory of Your Rocket to the Moon
- One Off Detective
- Scribble for Your Thoughts
- Seeds of Hope
- Still here
- The Boy in the Play
- The Lonely Architect – Pieces of Him
- The Silence is Loud
- The Wish
- Umbra
- You Have Ten Minutes
Awards cover a range of categories, including design, narrative, audio, and more.
Safe In Our World is a UK-based charity organization dedicated to mental health awareness within the video game industry. The 2024 Mental Health Game Dev Champions showcase premieres December 7. The Game Awards 2024 will air later that week on Thursday, Dec. 12.
