A MAZE.

🦩 Yuha's Nightmares. Episode One: Catastrophe - By Supr Experience (Georgia) 

🦩 Stip - By Sixtyfour (Belgium)

🦩 Relooted - By Nyamakop (South Africa)

🦩 Stealth Crossword - By Computer James (Ireland)

🦩 quantcept - By alpha_rats (France) 

🦩 Real Vampires - By Those Eyes (Denmark, Poland)

🦩 Panthalassa - By Meia Calça (Portugal, United Kingdom)

🦩 Proyecto EXO - By PlayLab DiTella (Argentina)

🦩 MINE MIND - Shoto Hayakawa (Japan)

🦩 Novocene - A Possible Future - By Jens Isensee, Julian Knepel, Maja Stark (Germany)

🦩 METAMORPHOSIS - By Hector, Federico, Chancellor, Liam, Agustina (Mexico, Argentina, United States, Ireland, Philippines)

🦩 Lucky Castaway - By Rare Crab Studio - Phillipp Gröbelbauer & Sven Kristlbauer (Switzerland)

🦩 I Don't Want To Be A Good Woman - By We Remember Games (Iran)

🦩 kitiklop - By Flex&Dorian (France)

Here are the honorable mentions for the AMAZE. / Berlin Awards: 

🦩 Eclipsium - By Housefire (Sweden) 

🦩 BȢGENĒ - By We Remember Games (Iran)

Nominees | A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - 15th International Games and Playful Media - May 13-16th 2026 A MAZE. / Berlin is back in 2026 for the 15th time, bringing together the worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic world builders, digital artists and playful media creators. From May 13-16th 2026 the international Games and Playful Media Festival will take place in Berlin, and includes hybride components that connects the physical festival programme with the virtual world.

However, we do have some spots for honorable mentions, for a shoutout and a space in the exhibition! 🍉🌴

#amaze2026 #mbbfunded #indiegames #playfulmedia #amazeawards 

We hope you enjoy them as much as we did🍉🦩🌴: 

Even though we would love nothing more than nominating all the amazing 435 submissions from 78 different countries, sadly we can't. 🦩

🦩 Coalition Constellation: Constellating Reparations - By Ren Loren Britton(United States, Germany)

🦩 Unsettled - By Cuerpos Migrantes (Peru, Argentina)

Congratulations to all the nominees🏆: 

🦩  Flesh Network - By Sickness International (United States)

Nominees | A MAZE. / Berlin 2026 - 15th International Games and Playful Media - May 13-16th 2026 A MAZE. / Berlin is back in 2026 for the 15th time, bringing together the worldwide community of arthouse game developers, artistic world builders, digital artists and playful media creators. From May 13-16th 2026 the international Games and Playful Media Festival will take place in Berlin, and includes hybride components that connects the physical festival programme with the virtual world.

Winners will recieve 2.000€ prize money and nominees will be part of a panel.

Travel cost and accomidations will be covered as well. 

Please take the time to review the nominees here🏆:

This award by the @koerber-ip.bsky.social  is looking for extraordinay XR projects which use new media to explore history, hitorical narration or commemorative culture.

#amaze2026 #playfulmedia #immersive #xr

🦩 Phonopolis - By Amanita Design (Czechia, United Kingdom)

🦩 The last Exam By Neslihan Aydınoğlu (Türkiye)

🦩 Beware of the Cartographer! - By Tohu Bohu Games (Netherlands, France)

🦩 NAME OF THE WILL - By Zeitgeist Studio (United States, Hong Kong SAR China, Japan, Canada, Estonia, United Kingdom)

@wingsfund.me  is proud to amplify voices less heard and give them the necessery opportunities in the gaming industry!

Here are the nominees for the 2026 Wings Award 🏆:

🦩 Tom the Postgirl - By Oopsie Daisies (France)

The Wings Award highlights games developed by women and gender marginalized developers. 

To be considered for the award with 2.000 € price money, games must be made with teams, where women or other gender marginalized developers were involved in key positions.

@wingsfund.me

🦩 The Wide Open Sky is Running out of Catfish - By ZIPIT! Games - Benjamin Warfield & Joshua Pulsifer (United States)

🦩 We Are Dead Animals - Tote Tiere Maarten (Netherlands, Germany)

🦩 Small Void - By Alice Bucknell & Jonathan Coryn (United States,France)

🦩 The Great Orator - By The Shoebox Diorama (Daniel Ernst) (Netherlands)

🦩 Season 31 - By MainSequenceStar (France)

🦩 Silicomrades - By Outside the Fox (Czechia)

🦩 SIRE - By heartcase (Netherlands)

🦩 Skate Story - By Sam Eng (United States)

🦩 Pigeon: A Love Story - By Wristwork (United Kingdom)

🦩 RUMINANT 4444 - By Miurbu (Switzerland)

🦩 Otherworlds - By Sophia Bulgakova (Ukraine, Netherlands)

🦩 PEPPERED: an existential platformer - By Vas Most, Nararcher and Fedya Balashov (Russia)

🦩 Manifest Your Dream Job Sleep Meditation - By Jade Lin (United Kingdom)

🦩 No, I'm not a Human - By Trioskaz (Georgia)

🦩 labRats - By cirqueSaw (United States)

🦩 Loopscroll - By Shaman Garage (Spain, China)

🦩 Egglets - The Long 10 Days - By wieLuft (Germany)

🦩 InSync - By DaChu Interactive (China, United States)

🦩 Crashboard 2000 - By Incontrolab (France) 

🦩 Easy Delivery Co. - By Sam C (Canada)

🦩 Broke Signal Badlands - By Forward Instinct (United States)

🦩 coalescent || tidal rapture - By Hanwen Xu & Hatim Benhsain (China, Morocco)

🦩 As Long As You're Here - By Autoscopia Interactive (Denmark, United States, Netherlands) 

🦩 Border Control - By rect repair (China, Australia)