Best Videogamesof 2012
The Fun & Serious Game Festival 2012 awarded the best works of the year at a gala held at the Campos Elíseos Theatre. The awards were split into two distinct categories: Best Fun Video Games and Best Serious Games.
Best FUN Video Games
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HALO 4 |
JOURNEY |
DISHONORED |
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Best SERIOUS GAMES
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Dragon
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Triage
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Disney
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El Codex del Peregrino |
Award Winning Ceremony, the Gala
The Campos Elíseos Theatre hosted, for the second year in a row, the awards gala for the Best Fun Video Games and the Best Serious Games of 2012. An event attended by leading industry figures as Kevin Franklin, creator of Halo 4, Kellee Santiago, creator of Journey or Charles Cecil as well as personalities from the fields of culture, sport, film and television.
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Award Winning Ceremony |
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Activities and Conferences
This second edition of the festival has included a range of activities for all ages, such as conferences, workshops and panels, play areas and a spectacular League of Legends tournament, at such appropriate spaces as the Guggenheim Museum or Alhóndiga Bilbao. In addition to that, leading experts in Serious Games and Gamificación gathered at the Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall to discuss and reflect on the future trends in this sector.
FOR PROFESSIONALS
- Serious Games Conferences
- Networking
Networking meetings were organized between Basque technology companies and professionals from national and international companies in the sector. - Workshop: “HTML5 as a
Game Platform”
by Tecnalia - Business Angel: “Experiences of a Video Game Investor and Entrepreneur”
by Jaime Ferré - Panel: “Video Games and the Press”
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Gamification and Marketing | Training | Health
Keynote Speakers
FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC
- F&S eSports Tournament
- hóPlay Game Zone
Video Games Exhibition
- “Halo 4, or how to make a mega-production”
by Kevin Franklin - Journey by Kellee Santiago
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Conference: Invizimals
by Daniel Sánchez-Crespo
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Basket and Videogames
with Antoni Damiel
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Stars at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
Talked about crowdfunding and platforms like Kickstarter as new financing channels and main video game industry assets in the future.
One the architects of one of the most successful games this year: Halo 4. A real mega-production no short of Hollywood, making USD220 million only 24 hours after being released.
Creator of the game sensation Journey, and one of the most influential women in the video game industry.
Roberto López Yeste explained the new business and production lines available at PlayStation's division in Spain.
The popular sports journalist Antoni Daimiel talked about his participation in the dubbing of the video game NBA 2K13, which has for the first time been translated into Spanish.
Fun & Serious Game Festival Venues
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Guggenheim Bilbao Museum
Canadian-American architect Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is one of the finest examples of the avant-garde in twentieth-century architecture.
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Alhóndiga Bilbao
Alhóndiga Bilbao houses one of the city's most representative buildings, a cultural and leisure space with a varied offering for everyone visiting it.
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Campos Elíseos Theatre
Built in the early twentieth century (1901-1902) during the expansion of Bilbao and the development of the “Ensanche,” this theatre was designed by local architect Alfredo Acebal.
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Euskalduna Conference Centre and Concert Hall
The Euskalduna has been awarded several international prizes, including the prestigious Apex Award for “World's Best Convention Centre”, granted in 2003 by the International Association of Congress Centres (AIPC), with representation from over 50 countries around the world.
Ver Fun and serious Game Festival 2012 in a bigger mape
