Nordic countries are home to some of the world's most prominent and successful game development studios - examples include DICE, Rovio and Avalanche Studios. Some excellent smaller studios are also based in the region, including Image & Form and KnapNok Games - both of which have secured nominations in the Nordic Game Awards 2016.
Both SteamWorld Heist and Affordable Space Adventures (on which KnapNok Games collaborated with Nifflas) are in the running for multiple gongs, and at the time of writing are eShop exclusives. Their categories are below.
Nordic Game of the Year
- Cities: Skylines
- Just Cause 3
- Soma
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Affordable Space Adventures
Nordic Game of the Year - Small Screen
- SteamWorld Heist
- Helldivers
- Angry Birds 2
- Badland 2
- The Walking Dead: No Man's Land
Best Art
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Badland 2
- Kingdom
- Helldivers
- Affordable Space Adventures
Best Game Design
- Cities: Skylines
- Affordable Space Adventures
- Just Cause 3
- Progress 100
- SteamWorld Heist
Best Technology
- Affordable Space Adventures
- Star Wars Battlefront
- Mad Max
- The Park
- EVE Gunjack
Best Fun for Everyone
- SteamWorld Heist
- Zombie Vikings
- Angry Birds 2
- AG Drive
- Box Island
- Shiftlings
- Sofus & Månemaskinen
Both of these titles have done exceptionally well, and it's pleasing to see them rewarded with such diverse nominations. The actual awards show is part of NG16 in Malmö, and will take place on 19th May at 6pm CET.
Good luck to KnapNok Games (including Nifflas) and Image & Form!
[source nordicgame.com]
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Wow... Nordic game of the year? I bought Affordable Space Adventures but never had time with my roommates to actually play it. Hm. I think I'll have to poke my roommates more to start it up
Quality good luck n well done.
Affordable Space Adventures was great, I hope it was financially successful for them.
@Haiassai I think it's even more fun in single player, to be honest. It's one of my favourite games of all time.
Both massively deserving titles, hugely enjoyably and phenomenally well crafted!
Both are great games. I just sat down last weekend and beat affordable space. Steamworld h is still a game I love to just play a level on my 3ds to kill time. Beaten that 2x now. Games like these are just as good as any aaa 3rd party games we don't see on nintendos consoles.
We have an award ceremony?
ASA is so good.
That's a pretty good output for a population of 30 million, or whatever Scandinavia has.
Kinda funny that, being part of the team that made Affordable Space Adventures, I learned about the nominations here on Nintendo Life first
On behalf of all of KnapNok Games, thank you all so much for your support!
Why isn't ColdWood Interactive in the list? They made Unravel, which has gorgeous graphics.
Nothing for Simogo this year, they were on a roll the last few years. Scandinavia has lots of outstanding developers.
@Dezzy Scandinavia is Sweden with 10 mill, Norway with 5 mill and Denmark with 5 million people. The Nordic countries also include Finland with 5 mill and Iceland with their 300 k people. But yeah, there has been made a lot of great games from here in recent years
@Anchel Congrats. Awsome game. Deserves all the credit!
@Nintendian Unravel came out in 2016, bet they will be up for some awards next year...
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