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By Sam Garcia / Workers author, with CNA
The Taiwanese artistic studio Team9 gained the Recreation Designers Award at this yr’s Japan Recreation Awards yesterday for Phrase Recreation (文字遊戲), a online game with characters and scenes made solely from Chinese language characters.
The Japan Recreation Awards had been based in 1996 by the Pc Leisure Provider’s Affiliation to acknowledge excellent video video games.
The Recreation Designers Award was based in 2010 to encourage progressive and artistic video games by Masahiro Sakurai, the producer of Kirby and Tremendous Smash Bros, who has served as chair of the judging panel.
Photograph from the Team9 Fb web page
This years’ awards ceremony was held in Tokyo yesterday night, with a Taiwanese recreation securing the designers award.
Phrase Recreation “reminds gamers of outdated PC video games enjoying with basic regular characters,” judges stated on the Japan Game Awards official Web site.
The sport “gained by an amazing majority of votes even within the Recreation Designers Award, the place the originality is the highest precedence,” they stated.
The judges praised the crew for adapting the sport from conventional Chinese language right into a Japanese model, saying “it took superior expertise and intelligent options.”
Sakurai stated that the Recreation Designers Award wouldn’t return to the Japan Recreation Awards subsequent yr as he plans to deal with recreation improvement and couldn’t discover an enough successor to take up his mantle.
“That is the final yr that we’re doing it, and the reason being as a result of there’s no person who’s going to interchange me,” he stated on the awards ceremony, including that he looked for a alternative for a few years.
Team9 stated on Fb that it was honored that Phrase Recreation was chosen as the ultimate recipient of the Recreation Designers Award.
The award’s emphasis on originality and creativity displays the crew’s aspirations in designing the sport, Team9 stated, including that being acknowledged on this means is extremely rewarding.
Pokémon Pokopia gained the Grand Award this yr, with judges praising its reputation throughout age teams and its “carefree, slow-life expertise.”
“It acquired overwhelming assist from each Pokémon followers and the broader gaming neighborhood — with many calling it soothing and addictive,” they stated.