Italic Pig Nominated for Best Indie Developer at Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards 2020

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Northern Ireland video game company Italic Pig are thrilled to have been nominated as one of ten companies throughout the UK for the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards “Best Indie Developer 2020” award at this week’s PG Connects event in London. 

The Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards are prestigious awards established to celebrate the very best businesses and individuals who are driving the $60 billion mobile games industry forward.

The “Best Indie Developer” accolade recognises the achievements of a team of up to 10 developers that have released a game, or successfully grown an existing game, during the last year.  Italic Pig’s recent successes in both mobile and VR gaming caught the attention of the panel amongst the 185 indie studios that were shortlisted, with the finalists being described as the “cream of the crop”  from every facet of the mobile games industry.

The full list of nominated companies are: 

  • Agens

  • Ant Workshop

  • Airraport

  • Crescent Moon Games

  • Hidden Layer

  • Italic Pig

  • Noodlecake Studios

  • Starberry Games

  • Stave Studios

  • ThroughLine Games

  • Thoughtfish

  • Triband

The awards are voted on during the final quarter of the year by a panel of industry judges and the Pocket Gamer Mobile Games Awards presentation evening will take place on the second night of Pocket Gamer Connects London 2020 on Tuesday, January 21, 2020.

Italic Pig’s CEO Kevin Beimers is also honoured to be a Judge for the Big Indie Pitch this year, having won the Big Indie Pitch twice previously in 2019 for VR project The Infinite Hotel and 2017 for Mona Lisa, a stealth-platformer and speed-painting game.  

The Big Indie Pitch is arguably the highlight of the Pocket Gamer Connects conference. Each participant has no more than three minutes to showcase his or her game to a staggered panel of 15 judges, composed of industry veterans, journalists, enthusiasts and evangelists.

About Italic Pig
@italicpig 

Italic Pig is a kickass Northern Irish entertainment studio filled with creative, talented and attractive individuals. They create sarcastically epic, narrative-driven stories for all audiences and platforms, and occasionally win awards for them. Italic Pig were recently nominated for Best Immersive Game at the Raindance Film Festival, and have won a GDC Best In Play, a number of Big Indie Pitch competitions and NI Game Studio of the Year in 2018 & 2019.  

Italic Pig recently signed a deal to collaborate with The Irregular Corporation and Northern Ireland Screen to produce Paleo Pines, a dinosaur-ranching social management sim. Whilst the full production budget is undisclosed, it represents the largest video game investment into Northern Ireland to date.

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