Develop Awards 2015: #FollowFriday – The Finalists

There has been a flood of tweets congratulating our Develop Awards 2015 finalists, but if you can’t find your favourite studio on Twitter, we’re here to help.

In this special #FollowFriday edition, we list all of the 137 companies in the running for an award this year. Scroll down and follow your favourites.

The winners will be announced during this year’s Develop Awards ceremony at the Brighton Hilton Metropole on Wednesday, July 15th. The winner of this year’s special awards, such as Development Legend, will be revealed closer to the time.

To book your ticket, contact Kathryn Humphrey via khumphrey@nbmedia.com or call her on 01992 535646.

For more information on sponsorship opportunities, contact Charlotte Nangle via cnangle@nbmedia.com or call her on 01992 515303.

Current Develop Awards supporters include Gold Partners UKIE, Amiqus and Unity, Table Gift Partner OPM, Drinks Reception Partner Keywords Studios and Event Partners Green Man Loaded and Develop: Brighton. Unity is also partner for the Micro Studio Award, while IconicFuture is partner for the Use of a Licence or IP Award.

Develop Awards 2015: The Finalists

CREATIVITY

New Games IP – PC/console

• Block N Load – Jagex Games Studio (@Jagex / @BlockNLoad)
• Cities: Skylines – Colossal Order (@Cities_PDX)
• Dying Light – Techland (@TechlandGames / @DyingLightGame)
• Grow Home – Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio (@UbiReflections / @GrowHomeGame)
• I Am Bread – Bossa Studios (@bossastudios / @IAmBreadGame)
• Life is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment (@DONTNOD_Ent / @LifeIsStrange)
• The Escapists – Mouldy Toof Studios (@MouldyToof / @Escapists_Game)
• TerraTech – Payload Studios (@TerraTechGame)

New Games IP – Mobile

• Plunder Pirates – Midoki (@PlunderPirates / @MidokiGames)
• Boom Beach – Supercell (@supercellgames / @BoomBeachGame)
• Best Fiends – Seriously (@seriouslyhq / @BestFiends)
• Heavenstrike Rivals – Mediatonic/Square Enix (@Mediatonic / @SquareEnix / @HSR_global)
• Playworld Superheroes – Starship (@starship_group / @playworldheroes)
• World of Warriors – Candylabs, a Mind Candy studio (@CandyLabsMC / @worldofwarriors)
• Size Does Matter – DOS Studios (@Dare2013TeamDOS)
• King of Thieves – ZeptoLab UK (@ZeptoLab / @kingthieves)

Use of a Licence or IP

• Alien: Isolation – Creative Assembly (@CAGames / @AlienIsolation)
• Angry Birds Transformers – Exient (@exient)
• Assassin’s Creed Chronicles – Climax Studios (@climaxstudios)
• Disney Infinity 2.0: Guardians of the Galaxy playset – Studio Gobo (@StudioGobo)
• Forza Horizon 2 – Playground Games (@WeArePlayground / @HorizonForza)
• Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions – Lucid Games (@LucidGamesLtd / @GeometryWars)
• LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham – TT Games (@TTGames / @LEGOBatmanGame)
• Talisman: Digital Edition – Nomad Games (@Nomadgames)

Visual Arts

• Alien: Isolation – Creative Assembly (@CAGames / @AlienIsolation)
• Beseige – Spiderling Games (@spiderlinggames)
• Driveclub – Evolution Studios (@DRIVECLUB)
• Elite: Dangerous – Frontier Developments (@frontierdev / @EliteDangerous)
• Grow Home – Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio (@UbiReflections / @GrowHomeGame)
• Grand Theft Auto V (PC) – Rockstar North (@RockstarGames)
• Lumino City – State of Play Games (@State_of_Play)
• Shards of War – Bigpoint (@Bigpoint / @Shardsofwargame)

Audio Accomplishment

• Alien: Isolation – Creative Assembly (@CAGames / @AlienIsolation)
• Angry Birds Epic – Chimera Entertainment (@ChimeraEnt / @ABEpic)
• Elite: Dangerous – Frontier Developments (@frontierdev / @EliteDangerous)
• Forza Horizon 2 – Playground Games (@WeArePlayground / @HorizonForza)
• Dreamfall Chapters: The Longest Journey – Red Thread Games (@RedThreadGames / @DFChapters)
• Driveclub – Evolution Studios (@DRIVECLUB)
• The Sailor’s Dream – Simogo (@simogo)
• Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Ubisoft Montpellier (@Ubisoft / @VHGame)

UseofNarrative

• 80 Days – Inkle Studios (@inkleStudios)
• Heavenstrike Rivals – Mediatonic/Square Enix (@Mediatonic / @SquareEnix / @HSR_global)
• Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment (@DONTNOD_Ent / @LifeIsStrange)
• LittleBigPlanet 3 – Sumo Digital (@SumoDigitalLtd / @LittleBigPlanet)
• Schrödinger’s Cat and the Raiders of the Lost Quark – Italic Pig (@italicpig)
• Soul Axiom – Wales Interactive (@WalesInter)
• Sunless Sea – Failbetter Games (@failbettergames)
• Valiant Hearts: The Great War – Ubisoft Montpellier (@Ubisoft / @VHGame)

TECH &SERVICES

Technology Provider

• ARM (@ARMHoldings)
• Dimensional Imaging (@di4dcom)
• Imagination Technologies (@ImaginationTech)
• Intel (@intel)
• Multiplay (@Multiplay)
• Nvidia (@nvidia)
• Oculus VR (@oculus)
• SoftLayer Technologies (@SoftLayer)

Design & Creativity Tool

• Enlighten 3 with Forge – Geomerics (@Geomerics)
• Granite – Graphine Software (@GraphineSoft)
• Havok Cloth – Havok (@HavokBuzz)
• SpeedTree for Games – SpeedTree (@SpeedTreeInc)
• Substance Designer 5 – Allegorithmic (@Allegorithmic)
• Umbra –Umbra Software (@umbra3d)
• Wwise – Audiokinetic (@audiokinetic)
• Yebis 3 – Silicon Studio (@Silicon_Studio)

ProductionTool

• Deadline – Thinkbox Software (@thinkboxsoft)
• Fabric – Tazman Audio (@Tazman_Audio)
• GameBench – GameBench (@GameBench)
• GameSparks – GameSparks (@Gamesparksltd)
• Marmalade – Marmalade Technologies (@marmaladeapps)
• Perforce – Perforce Software (@perforce)
• Simplygon – Donya Labs (@simplygon)
• Shotgun 6 – Shotgun Software/Autodesk (@shotgunsoftware / @autodesk)

Engine

• ChilliSource – ChilliWorks (@Chilli_Works)
• Construct 2 – Scirra (@Scirra)
• CryEngine – Crytek (@Crytek / @cryengine)
• GameGuru – The Game Creators (@TheGameCreators)
• GameMaker – YoYo Games (@YoYoGames)
• PlayCanvas – PlayCanvas (@playcanvas)
• Unity 5 – Unity Technologies (@unity3d)
• Unreal Engine 4 – Epic Games (@EpicGames / @UnrealEngine)

Services

• Audiomotion (@Audiomotion)
• Carbon Digital (@carbondigital)
• Cubic Motion (@cubicmotion)
• DeltaDNA (@delta_DNA)
• Pinewood Studios Group (@PinewoodStudios)
• Player Research (@PlayerResearch)
• Soundcuts (@SoundCuts)
• Sperasoft (@Sperasoft)

QA & Localisation

• LocalizeDirect (@LocDirect)
• Keywords Studios (@KeywordsIntl)
• OneSky (@OneSkyApp)
• Pole To Win (@PoleToWinIntl)
• Testology (@Testologyltd)
• Testronic (@testroniclabs)
• Universally Speaking (@USSpeaking)
• VMC (@VMCConsulting)

CreativeOutsourcer–Visual&Development

• Axis – Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns trailer (@axisanim)
• BlitWorks – Don’t Stave (PS Vita) (@BlitWorks)
• D3T – Super Stardust Ultra (PS4) (@d3tLtd)
• Just Add Water – Oddworld: New ‘n’ Tasty (@jawltd)
• Realtime UK – Smite trailer (@RealtimeUK)
• Speech Graphics – Shadow of Mordor (@speechgraphics)

CreativeOutsourcer–Audio

• 93 Steps – Wargaming trailers (@93Steps)
• Christopher Randle – LA Cops (@chris_randle)
• OMUK – Tropico 5 (@omuk_london)
• SIDE – Alien: Isolation (@SideUK)
• Sounding Sweet – Forza Horizon 2 (@sounding_sweet)
• Stafford Bawler – Monument Valley: Forgotten Shores (@StaffordBawler)

Recruiter

• Aardvark Swift (@AardvarkSwift)
• Amiqus (@WeAreAmiqus)
• Avatar Games (@Avatar_Games)
• Creative Personnel (@MarvellousJobs)
• Datascope (@Datascope)
• Guru Careers (@GuruCareersJobs)
• OPM (@opmjobs)
• SpecialMove (@specialmove)

STUDIOS

Publishing Hero

• 505 Games (@505_Games)
• Chillingo (@chillingo)
• Curve Digital (@CurveDigital)
• Deep Silver (@deepsilver)
• Greenshoots (@MicrosoftUK / @creativeengland)
• Team17 (@Team17Ltd)
• SCEE Strategic Content (@SCEEBlog)
• Square Enix (@SquareEnix)

MicroStudio – Presented by Unity

• Christian West (@SirCoolbeans)
• Guerilla Tea (@GuerillaTea)
• Lamplight Studios (@LamplightGames)
• Mode7 (@mode7games)
• Modern Dream (@OllieClarke)
• Mouldy Toof Studios (@MouldyToof / @Escapists_Game)
• Roll7 (@Roll_7)
• Team Lumo (@teamlumo)

IndependentStudio

• 8-bit Studio (@SkaraTBR)
• Amplitude Studios (@Amplitude)
• Eight Pixels Square (@8pixelssquare)
• Goodgame Studios (@Goodgamestudios)
• InnoGames (@innogames)
• Lucid Games (@LucidGamesLtd)
• Rebellion (@Rebellion)
• Space Ape Games (@SpaceApeGames)

In-HouseStudio

• Candylabs, a Mind Candy studio (@CandyLabsMC)
• Creative Assembly (@CAGames)
• Evolution Studios (@DRIVECLUB)
• Reflections, a Ubisoft studio (@UbiReflections)
• Rockstar North (@RockstarGames)
• Sega Hardlight (@HLGames)
• Sports Interactive (@SI_games)
• Ubisoft BlueByte (@Blue_Byte)

NewStudio

• Deco Digital (@decodigital)
• Freejam (@Freejamgames)
• Payload Studios (@TerraTechGame)
• Seriously (@seriouslyhq)
• Starship (@starship_group)
• Team Junkfish (@TeamJunkfish)