Games for Change unveils 2022 video game and XR award winners
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Dot’s Home won Game of the Year and Best Narrative winner at the 2022 Games for Change Awards.
With thousands of votes, BeatNic Boulevard was awarded the annual People’s Choice award (presented by Facebook Gaming). The winners, representing 13 countries, were announced this evening during the 2022 Games for Change Virtual Festival’s Awards Ceremony.
I attended the event for the first time in-person this week in New York and I’ll have more to say about it. I enjoyed it and had some good discussions about the metaverse in a couple of roundtables, as well as a good fireside chat with Stanley Pierre-Louis, CEO of the Entertainment Software Association.
Here’s the 2022 Games for Change Award winners:
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Game of the Year, Best Narrative — Dot’s Home (Weathered Sweater & Rise-Home Stories Project) Dot’s Home is a single-player narrative-driven video game where Dot, a young, Black woman in today’s Detroit, travels through time to key moments in her family’s history to see how individual decisions — however seemingly inconsequential, let alone right or wrong — have long-lasting collective impact.
Most Innovative — The Vale: Shadow of the Crown (Falling Squirrel)
The Vale is an action-adventure that utilizes the full potential of 3D audio to deliver visceral gameplay that shatters the barrier between player and character. The Vale also sets out to
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