Location: Street, Stockholm
Date: 21-22 of October, 2006
Last weekend the doors to Sweden’s largest computer game festival Spelfest flung wide open at Street in Stockholm. The event was arranged by The Swedish Computer Game Institute and Swedish Game Awards (SGA) took the opportunity to inform about the competition and host a miniature competition named Mini-SGA; where the main task was to come up with a brilliant, funny or crazy game concept while using paper, pen, scissor and/or glue to convey the ideas.
Visitors could also meet two of SGA’s former winners and participants; Yokaj Studio (makers of Sumo, Best Game Idea 2006), Silent Grove (makers of Dawnspire, Best PC Game 2006) and other interesting Swedish independent game developers and schools.
The two-day festival was visited by over 1200 people of all ages and many came up to SGA’s booth to ask about the competition, our goals and intentions and to participate in Mini-SGA. The activity received great response from both visitors and participants and it’s with great pleasure that we announce the winner of a Just Cause t-shirt from Avalanche and the PC Gamer and SuperPLAY subscriptions;
- Best Game Concept: Lonely Beast by Gustav Carlberg
Following contributions won Just Cause t-shirts from Avalanche:
- Social Innovation: Röda-vita rosen, Next Generation by Sofie Waldén
- Craziest Game Concept: Utan title by Anna Tascha Larsson
- Highest Game Potential: Att skapa en festival! by Åsa Frank
Friday night ended with a party, Spelfest Club, where the music artists Boy VS Bacteria and The Puff lured people out on the dance floor. On Saturday we entered the stage and informed about Swedish Game Awards. Among other speakers during the festival were our partners Peligroso and Microsoft.
SGA would like to thank all the participants in Mini-SGA, our partners and all the interesting people at the event for sharing their ideas and experiences!
