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We proudly present the jury's favorites in
the different categories. First off:
Browser Game of the Year 2007
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Travians
Travian Games
Fresh gameplay, innovative ideas, some nice graphics and so much more. Brevity is the soul of wit, so: Travians has convinced the jury with an astonishing overall package.
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Best Concept
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Weewar
Weewar
There are many reasons for the jury's
decision in this category: Weewar is made after a brilliant concept and includes
many innovative ideas and features such as the Weewar API or the live ticker on the
landing page.
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Best Graphics
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Arthic
sodigital
Arthic truly convinced the jury where
graphics are concerned. It does pair beautiful in-game graphics
with excellent visual characteristic.
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The jury was hard pressed to decide the
Technical Achievement award ad so it goes to as many as 4 games this year:
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Technical Achievement Award (Use of Technology) |
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Beryl Tales
Xybris Interactive
The German RPG Beryl Tales convinced the jury with a brilliant use of technology.
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Robofighter
Pixeltamer/Bigpoint
Robofighter was also able to leave a permanent impression with our jurors.
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Travians
Travian Games
Same with Travians. The Browser Game of the Year surely does know how to enthuse technically.
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Weewar
Weewar
And again Weewar. A game packed with
technical achievements.
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| Best Gameplay |
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Travians
Travian Games
Best Gameplay goes to... Travians.
Congratulations!
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| Best Story |
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Cthulhu Nation
Twisted Empire
Cthulhu Nation inspired the jury with its
great story line. This game is based on H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos and shows
that you can't beat a good story!
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| Best Action Game |
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Arthic
sodigital
Perfect graphics and a smashing multiplayer
experience. Arthic has taken a shine to our jury when it comes to action. The
possibility to directly start playing without a long
registration process underscores the jury's decision.
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| Best Strategy Game |
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Skaph.com
Wadim Kapinos
The German strategy game Skaph would have
been another a good winner where graphics and overall presentation are
concerned. It is accompanied by great short movies to better emerse the player in
the plot.
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Empire Universe 2
Crafty Studios/Looki
Empire Universe 2 was also able to leave its
mark and thereby continues the track record of Empire
Universe.
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Mythlands
XS Software
The successful mix of RPG and Strategy has
already been able to draw the attention. Our jury was unable to resist and
elected Mythlands as one of the winners of the Best Strategy Game.
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Best Sports Game
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Footiecup
Mediatainment
You won't be able to come past FootieCup if
you want to dip in the world of sports, more precisely the world of soccer.
That is why the jury named it Best Sports Game of 2007.
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Business Sim, RPG and Casual Game are further categories in which the jury elected it's favorites.
Best Business Sim
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Kapi-Regnum
upjers
Medieval flair and business are not mutually exclusive, proven by Kapi-Regnum. The specialists from upjers created the jury's favorite Business Sim.
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Best RPG
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Travians
Travian Games
Travians has also rendered outstanding services to the RPG sector as far as our jury is concerned.
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| Best Casual Game |
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Kuwis
Crafty Studios
How about a quicky? If you like something a bit more casual, you should give Kuwis a try. Classics such as Solitaire or Battleships are much more fun to play with others in Kuwis' pixel town.
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Let's check on the remaining categories: Innovative Studio Award and Best Hobby Project. What was first class in 2007?
| Innovative Studio Award (Best Newcomer) |
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Weewar
Weewar
Innovative Studio Award (Best Newcomer) goes
to Weewar. Weewar surely is one innovative studio. A
great concept paired with brilliant technology is what makes it the Best Newcomer.
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Best Hobby Project
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Xhodon
Xhodon
An last but not least of the jury categories:
Best Hobby Project. Xhodon is a worthy example for a successful
hobby project. It's ability to convince a huge amount of players
in a very short time speaks for itself.
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Let's finish of with the arguably most
important prizes: The Community Award was split into three sub-categories.
Community Award 10.000+ players
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Kapi-Regnum
upjers
Kapi-Regnum was able to not only convince the jury, but leave a big impression with the audience, too. Top flight in our "big player" category.
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Community Award: 1.000 to 10.000 players
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Project: World War
Xfer
Project: World War now has to give thanks to it's community for winning the Community Award for "medium sized games".
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Community Award: less than 1.000 players
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Ritterheere im Mittelalter
MW Ritterheere GbR
Surely there are a lot more players to be
coming to this game: The German "Ritterheere im Mittelalter" has
won the "small game award".
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That's it. End of show. All the awards have
been given out and the Browser Game of the Year 2007 is announced. We're looking forward
to what will impress us in 2008!