3rd Annual Impy Awards Winners Revealed
Did you watch the live stream of the 3rd Annual Impy Awards last night? If you did: thanks for tuning in! And our sincerest apologies for subjecting you to The Connie Hat. You know which one.
However, don’t worry if you couldn’t make it: we’ve posted a video of the program on our youtube channel for you to enjoy at your leisure. Check it out: Along with our celebration of some of the best creations and moments from the past 12 months at Dreams, we had all kinds of special celebrity guests come out to say hello.
It was, as always, a pleasure and an honor to present trophies to this year’s winners. We’d like to give another big thank you to our wonderful expert guest judges, drawn from a variety of creative industries, for helping us with the incredibly difficult task of selecting a single worthy winner in each category. Thanks also to everyone who voted in our four community-voted categories! It is clear that you have excellent taste, as you will see below.
Yes, it’s finally time to reveal the full list of winners. Uh, again. But this time in blog format!
Excellence in art direction
the idyll – ZIIQ, Helekosi and Bevis2
Excellence in Environmental Art
Tales from Dark Town: Red Zone – DirtyFlushher and dinox11
Excellence in Narrative
The war to end all wars – DerAnder_96
Excellence in Sculpture
music track of the year
musician of the year
Excellence in Animation
excellence in the game
Claustrofactory – Hit, piece of art and pathonomy
Most original gameplay
Impressionable – domesticated entropy
Curating Excellence
Excellence in character design
Excellence in audio design
Fragments (#AutistaPlayJam) – OptimusCries, NikoJaXs and tyon
Innovation Excellence
nine equals – danikaka, cutaia_net and Pixel_Gorilla
community star
Excellence in voice acting
Red and the Cursed Isles – RedSeikatsu-
most helpful dreamer
Contribution beyond dreams
podcast made in dreams
Excellence in virtual reality
the show of RESTLESS DARKNESS – s-001
Evolving experience
COMMUNITY COLLABORATION
Dream Festival 2021 – Dreamfest Team
innovative dreamer
Creator(s)/Team of the Year
creation of the year
the idyll – ZIIQ, Helekosi and Bevis2
What an amazing year it has been at Dreams. If you want to see some of these award-winning creations for yourself, you can simply launch Dreams, and the DreamSurfing homepage will lift you up on a wave of healing magic and gently place you in front of the relevant playlists… (Basically, we’ll show you where target your imp).
oh and our playable impys hub is also available to explore in-game: it’s a stylish underground gallery space, featuring art exhibits made by Mm inspired by some of our favorite moments of community-led collaboration and creativity throughout Dreams’ history. (We can’t believe it’s been over two years since Dreams launched!) It’s packed with fun and interactive stuff, unexpected secrets, and cheeky community Easter eggs for those in the know.
And if you want MORE information, ideas, tips for developers and tributes from the Impys community, you can still download our magazine for free on indreams.me: The Impsider’s Official Companion to the 3rd Annual Impy Awards!
All our love to you for helping us celebrate another amazing year of creativity, collaboration, and community spirit at Dreams. If you have any feedback about this year’s Impy Awards, please let us know via the usual social channels; we do it every year for all of you, so we always appreciate your opinions and suggestions. (What do you mean “Don’t show us The Connie Hat again”?)