In Heroes Here and Frostpunk take first prize at BIG 2018

The Independent Games Festival of Brazil announced Friday night (29th) the winners of the 2018 edition. The best game of the fair was for Frostpunk, created by the Polish studio 11 Bit Studios. With regard to Brazil, the culminating point goes to In Heroes Here of Mad Mimic Interactive studio in São Paulo, which not only won the title of best Brazilian game, but also won the popular vote of the category

] The winners list still includes the French Dead Cells as the best gameplay and the Brazilian Fofuu, as best child game, new category of the # 39; event. In all, there were 54 finalists in the categories, with 18 Brazilian games.

With two of the main awards, Mad Mimic was the big winner of the night. "I think it's the cooperative character that has made the game so compelling for the public to vote for us, and the idea is that, to get people to collaborate and play together. think, in this case, it worked very well, "said Luis Tashiro, a member of the team after receiving the award.

In Heroes Here is a game in which up to four people have to organize a fortification to avoid the attack of enemy hordes. The project was the winner of SPCine's announcement, an initiative of the city of São Paulo to encourage local cultural productions, including games. The amount invested publicly was used for the last part of the development of the game in 2017.

Already the developer and also responsible for In Heroes Here Juno Cecil, emphasized the taste of winning at home. "BIG is an event that I really love and, anyway, it 's our home, is not it? So, it' s very special to receive such a prize. I'm very happy. "

The price comes exactly the day the game was released for the Nintendo Switch. "It was a great launching gift," teases Tashiro. In Heroes Here was released on October 3, 2017 for PC and reached PlayStation 4 on May 29, 2018 and now Switch

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International

Frostpunk is a survival game in which the player must manage a group facing a post-apocalyptic universe. The game is a production of Poland, a country more and more fertile for the scenario. "Without a doubt, the growing number of games in the country has helped a lot to develop." Of course, the launch of The Witcher was also a milestone for us, "says Patrick Grzeszczuk, the representative marketing of 11 Bit Studios, which received the award.