TIGA AWARDS: WOMEN IN GAMES & ALLIES SHORTLISTED

The UK games industry trade body TIGA has announced the finalists of its 2022 Games Industry Awards – and we’re delighted to have been shortlisted alongside some of our Corporate Ambassadors, friends and allies.

Women in Games is a finalist in the Diversity category of the awards, which will take place on November 10^th at Church House Westminster, London (pictured). A number of our Corporate Ambassadors, including Dovetail Games, Sumo Group, Testronic and Ubisoft, have also been shortlisted for their games and services.

There are a total of 30 awards up for grabs on the night. The full list of finalists are here (deep breath):

Action and Adventure Game
Death’s Door – Acid Nerve/ Devolver Digital
Fracked – nDreams
Haven Park – Mooneye Studios
Horizon Forbidden West – Sony Interactive Entertainment/Guerrilla Games
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One – Frogwares
Sniper Elite 5 – Rebellion
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes – Supermassive Games
The Occultist – Pentakill Studios
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – Gearbox Software

Arcade Game
Arcade Paradise – Wired Productions
Beatstar – Touch Your Music – Space Ape Games
Climate Change: Global Manager – Friday Sundae
Dashpong – Victor Meunier
Hungry Shark World – Ubisoft Future Games of London
Spellbook Demonslayers Prologue – Xendra

Casual Game
Alba: A Wildlife Adventure – ustwo Games
Her Name Was Fire – Tissue Inu
Hypercharge: Unboxed – Digital Cybercherries
Inua: A Story in Ice and Time – ARTE France/IKO/The Pixel Hunt
Megaquarium – Auroch Digital
Perfect Coffee 3D – Kwalee
PowerWash Simulator – FuturLab
Trivial Pursuit Live! 2 – Snap Finger Click
Wobbledogs – Animal Uprising

Audio Design
A Musical Story – Digerati
Eyes in the Dark: The Curious Case of One Victoria Bloom – Gearbox Publishing
Honor of Kings: Miyamoto Musashi – TiMi Studio Group
Horizon Forbidden West – Sony Interactive Entertainment/Guerrilla
Inua: A Story in Ice and Time – ARTE France/IKO/The Pixel Hunt:
Martha is Dead – Wired Productions
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy – Eidos Montreal
The Quarry – Supermassive Games
Total War: Warhammer III – Creative Assembly

Creativity in Games
Bloodshore – Wales Interactive
Card Shark – Nerial/Devolver Digital
Clays Bar – Clays
Epic Chef – Team17 Digital
Outcore: Desktop Adventure – Doctor Shinobi
Sniper Elite 5 – Rebellion
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes – Supermassive Games
The Serpent Rogue – Team17 Digital
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? – Wales Interactive

Diversity
OlliOlli World – Roll7
Putting The G into Gaming
Spells & Secrets – Alchemist Interactive
Women in Games

Educational, Serious or Simulation Game
Arcade Paradise – Wired Productions
Atomic Labs – BBC/Fish in a Bottle
Horrible Histories: Raid and Trade – BBC/Playerthree
Imagine Earth – Serious Brothers UG
Jojo and Gran Gran: Letters to St Lucia – BBC/Jollywise
LEGO® DUPLO® MARVEL – StoryToys
Mars Horizon – Auroch Digital
PowerWash Simulator – FuturLab
The Fermi Paradox – Anomaly Games

Heritage in Games
Airforce Action Stations – Friday Sundae
Antstream Arcade – Antstream
Card Shark – Nerial
Climate Change: Global Manager – Friday Sundae
Hungry Shark World – Ubisoft Future Games of London
Sniper Elite 5 – Rebellion
Svoboda 1945: Liberation – Charles Games
Who Pressed Mute on Uncle Marcus? – Wales Interactive

Puzzle Game
Airforce Action Stations – Friday Sundae
Eternal Threads – Cosmonaut Studio
Gordon Ramsay’s Chef Blast – Outplay Entertainment
Inua: A Story in Ice and Time – ARTE France/Iko/The Pixel Hunt
Kredolis – Pharos Interactive
Lost Twins 2 – Playdew
Moss: Book II – Polyarc
Surviving the Humans – Surprised Monkey Studio
We Were Here Forever – Total Mayhem Games

Social Game
Big Brother: The Game 2 – 9^th Impact
Core Keeper – Fireshine Games
RoPets – Supersolid
Smack the Table – Basalikum
The Dark Pictures Anthology: House of Ashes – Supermassive Games
The Quarry – Supermassive Games
Trivial Pursuit Live! 2 – Snap Finger Click

Strategy Game
Climate Change: Global Manager – Friday Sundae
Imagine Earth – Serious Brothers UG
Indies’ Lies – Fun Square Games
Jupiter Moons: Mecha – Rock&Bushes
SIEGE: World War II – Imperia Online JSC
Space Menace – Only4Gamers
The Fabulous Fear Machine – Fictiorama Studios
Total War: WARHAMMER III – Creative Assembly
Warhammer 40,000: Tacticus – Snowprint Studios

Visual Design
Card Shark – Nerial
Death’s Door – Acid Nerve/Devolver
Dubium – MUMO Studio
Horizon Forbidden West – Sony Interactive Entertainment/Guerrilla
Inua: A Story in Ice and Time – Arte France/Iko/The Pixel Hunt
Martha is Dead – Wired Productions
Moss: Book II – Polyarc
OlliOlli World – Roll7
Tiny Tina’s Wonderlands – Gearbox Software

VR/AR Game
Clays Bar – Clays
Fracked – nDreams
Little Cities –  nDreams
Moss: Book II – Polyarc
RUINSMAGUS – CharacterBank Inc.
The Green Planet AR Experience, Powered by EE 5G – Factory 42 with BBC Studios, EE, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Talesmith and Dimension Studio
We Are One – Flat Head Studio

Art/Animation/Trailer Supplier
1518 Studios (Part of the PTW family of Brands)
Airship Interactive
Atomhawk
Liquid Crimson

Audio Services
PitStop Productions
SIDE Global
Soundcuts
Tazman Audio

Education Initiative
Airship Interactive
Birmingham City University
Dovetail Games
London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
Lucid Games
nDreams Academy
Norwich University of the Arts
Staffordshire University
Sumo Digital
University of Hertfordshire
University of the West of England
University of Portsmouth

Educational Institution
Birmingham City University
Bournemouth University
Escape Studios
London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
Norwich University of the Arts
Sheffield Hallam University
Staffordshire University
University of Greenwich
University of Hertfordshire
University of Portsmouth

QA Provider
GlobalStep
PTW
Testronic
Universally Speaking

Tax and Accountancy Company
Sky Life Accountancy
RSM UK
MMP Tax

Recruitment Agency
Aardvark Swift
Amiqus
Avatar

Tools, Technology & Innovation
Antstream
Epic Games
Guerrilla
Panivox
Speech Graphics
Tazman-Audio

Legal Services
Bird & Bird LLP
Eaton Smith LLP
Lewis Silkin LLP
Stevens & Bolton LLP
Wiggin LLP

Services Provider
Airship Interactive
Games Jobs Direct
Liquid Crimson
Maverick Media
PitStop Productions
PTW Family of Brands
Renaissance PR
Soundcuts
S-Tech Insurance Services (GameS-Tech)
Tazman-Audio
Universally Speaking

Small Studio
Cosmonaut Studios
Digerati
Fireshine Games
Hugecalf Studios
Snowprint Studios
Trailmix
Total Mayhem Games
Ustwo Games
Wired Productions

Large Studio
Auroch Digital
Dovetail Games
Guerrilla
Kwalee
Lucid Games
nDreams
Outplay Entertainment
Rebellion
Space Ape Games
Sumo Digital
Supermassive Games

Commitment to CSR
Dovetail Games
PlayStation London Studio
SIDE | PTW
Sumo Group
Testronic.

Employer of the Year
Atomhawk
Dovetail Games
Sumo Group

Publisher of the Year
Dovetail Games
nDreams
Kwalee
Rebellion
Secret Mode
Sony Interactive Entertainment

Good luck to all!