GAME BAFTAS – Ones To Watch – Updated!

So, the gaming BAFTAS have been announced and the awards will take place on the 16th of March at the London Hilton (no, that’s not Paris’s little sister, but rather the very posh hotel on Park Lane).

Normally, I’m not one who watches or pays attention to awards ceremonies, but this year I may be persuaded to watch at least part of it.  The “Ones to watch” category anyway.

You may remember a few months back we brought you a bit of coverage of the Dare Protoplay 2010 event?  Well, the winners from that have been entered into the GAME BAFTAS under “Ones To Watch”.  The three winning games were MUSH, Sculpty and Twang!, and they’re all fantastic little gems from student developers.

MUSH is the puzzle-platformer with the emotional twist from Angry Mango Games, developed for the Windows Phone. Sculpty comes from Team Tickle and is the shape-shifting platformer featuring a loveable blob on the iPad. With Twang!, That Game Studio takes a Ninja Rope and runs away with it in the form of a horizontal multiplayer racer on the Xbox 360.

Needless to say, I’m excited for all three developers and their games and I hope to see full releases and much greatness from these guys in the future.  I’d also like to see some multi-platforming action, especially from Twang!, which would be a definite purchase on my PS3.

Anyways, here are some video interviews I did with each of the Dev Teams:

Angry Mango

Team Tickle

That Game Studio

Good luck to the three teams, may the best game win, but you all deserve it for your lovely, lovely games.  Also, big thanks to all the guys I spoke to at Protoplay 2010; I hope to see your games come out soon and many joyous days to come for the games industry.  Keep up the good work!

UPDATE:

So, the Game BAFTAS came and went and we had a winner in the Ones To Watch Category.  Big congratulations to That Game Company and TWANG!.  Well done guys, you all deserved the award.

Commiserations to Angry Mango and Team Tickle, but well done for even getting nominated.