GameXcellence Awards
Awards and Projects
2024 Awards
Excellence in Prototype Game
Dungeons and Dining Tables
Awaken, Axolotl! Embark on a cozy action RPG adventure in a land of magical furnishings. Delve dungeons for rare furniture! Bring creatures and comforts back to Kindlerest! Go forth and drive the grumpiness from the land: Your perfect home is just a dungeon away! Click me to Steam Page!
Excellence in Prototype Game
Slumbering Woods
'Slumbering Woods' is a hand-drawn adventure where you play as a travelling herbalist helping an isolated village, surrounded by rising swamp waters, reclaim its past glory as a thriving trading hub. Solve unique planting puzzles, uncover hidden secrets, and engage with intriguing characters in a beautifully illustrated world filled with mystery and environmental magic. Click me to Steam Page!
Excellence in Mini Game
Castle Cab
Castle Cab is a sandbox adventure game where you play as a majestic steed, navigating with your cart to “assist” the locals in your own unique way. Create mayhem as you drift through the village, speed across the fields, and soar over castle walls, all while evading the town’s pig-riding guards as you explore the island! Click me to itch.io page!
Excellence in Special Awards - International
Verde and the Echoing Water
Verde and the Echoing Water is a cozy-casual city building game where you will help the Dewdrop Village to solve their clean water crisis. Click me to itch.io page!
Excellence in Special Awards -Student
Machines of the Wasteland
Machine of the Wasteland is a high-octane vehicular combat action game set in a chaotic, post-apocalyptic world where survival hinges on your ability to outmaneuver and outgun your enemies. Players engage in intense battles, destroying enemy vehicles using a variety of weapons scattered across the map.
Honorable Mentions - Prototype
Project Delta
Immerse yourself in the bustling cyber city of Neotrocity and infiltrate the treacherous Delta Corp headquarters in this top down dungeon crawler rogue-like. Whether you join forces or go solo, your mission is clear: unravel the mysteries behind the corporate overlords from the inside out. Ascend through company floors, fending off guards and corporate atrocities. Empower yourself by utilizing company weapons and modifications stolen from their own research facilities and increase your chances of survival by unlocking & upgrading your deck at the black market. Click me to Steam Page!
Honorable Mentions - Prototype
Aura of Worlds
Aura of Worlds is a chaotic, creative tactics, rogue-lite platformer. As a rogue-lite that has a strong focus on exploration and improvisations. Each situation is challenging but solvable with planning and agility. Procedural levels range from pursuing death walls flooded passages lined with explosives shifting wind currents bosses spanning the entire labyrinth and more. The game is planned to be fully released on Nintendo Switch, Steam Deck and PC in late September (likely on the 19th). Click me to Steam Page!
Honorable Mentions - Prototype
Crush Zone: Demolition Derby
CZDD is a multiplayer focussed, vehicular combat party game for all ages. Basic gameplay loop centers on competing in a demolition derby arena against other players and/or bots, using ramming and weapons to destroy your opponents and achieve the highest score at the end of a match. Click me to Steam Page!
Honorable Mentions - Prototype
Weight-it-out!
In this fun physics puzzle game, use everyday household objects to weigh down the scales and meet the objectives. Be creative with your combinations but be careful, you don't want to knock over your precarious stack. Click me to itch.io page!
Honorable Mentions - Mini Game
Eclipsed: Origins
In a post-apocalyptic world, you are the Wanderer, a lone survivor guided into a mysterious dungeon that holds the secrets of humanity's downfall. Armed with Buff Technology that enhances all your abilities, you gain the strength needed to face the dungeon's challenges, but at a steep cost—each use of this power distorts your mind and body, warping reality and pushing you to the brink of madness. As you delve deeper into the dungeon's dark corridors, you must uncover the truth behind the apocalypse while struggling to retain your sanity and humanity.
Honorable Mentions - Mini Game
BoxHound!
Explore Barong Island as magic guide dog, helping a blind girl on her journey across the island to get to the beach.BoxHound! is a puzzle PC game based on the classic "Sokoban" game and other various "block-pushing" games.The game is set in a city on Barong Island, a modern place with all you expect from a beach-based community, yet it lacks the infrastructure needed to support the visually impaired.You along with an old man want to help the blind girl struggling to get around, so you must rebuild the sidewalks with tactile paving as you explore the various locations of barong island. Click me to itch.io page!