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Press release:
Madrid, November 19th, 2019. Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain (SIE Spain) is pleased to unveil the 12 nominees for the a title=”Playstation Talents Awards homepage” href=”https://www.playstationtalents.es/premios-ps” target=”_blank” rel=”noopener”>VI PlayStation Talents Awards which will compete for this year.

The winner will get a €10.000 prize to fund its game, plus access to PS4 development kits, and the chance of developìng the game within the PlayStation Talents Games Camp incubator — as well as being published on PlayStation 4 when it’s ready.

The jury that will choose this year’s winners will consist of key figures of the Spanish video games industry, including developers, artists, and journalists.

Besides the Best Game of the Year Award, the finalists will compete for some other categories acknowledging other important aspects of every game.

On top of the Best Innovation and Best Art categories, for the first time the PlayStation Talents Awards will recognize the Best Narrative, a prize that will value the narrative method, the plot’s originality and how complex is the universe the game depicts.

Finally, some of the most important Spanish game critics will honor their favorite one with the Press Award.

This year, nominees will also have the chance to win the Dreams Special Award, funded with 3.000 euros, for the game that better uses the creative side of the video game, and the PlayStation Commitment Special Award which will highlight a game with a social perspective in order to recognize that video games play a role transmitting culture and values.

Shahid Ahmad will be one of the jury members in charge of selecting the best titles of the year.

The 2019 PlayStation Talents Awards finalists are:

A Rising Bond, from inBreak Studios
Blackout!!, from Sun Studios
Blackstorm, from Lost Criteria Studios
Clid the Snail, from Weird Beluga Studio
Fifo’s Night, from Flamingo Games
Guayota, from Team Occlusion
Imvisible, from Mirror Age
Inner Ashes, from Calathea Game Studio
Inner Path, from O Works
The Paperman, from Proto1Studios
Tiki Adventures, from Golden Coconut Studios
Twaliens, from Blue Glitch Studio

The PlayStation Talents Awards were first held in 2014 and, since then, four awarded games have been published for PlayStation consoles.

The last winner, A Tale of Paper, is a platformer adventure game where its main character is a paper figure that can adapt its shape to overcome obstacles and fulfill its creator’s dream.

A Tale of Paper is being developed at the PlayStation Talents Games Camp in Barcelona.

ABOUT PLAYSTATION TALENTS®
Launched in 2015 by Sony Interactive Entertainment Spain, the PlayStation® Talents program aims to unify all the initiatives put together by the local Spanish branch in order to develop the Spanish creativity.

The goal of the PlayStation Talents program is to support the local industry as well as to create video games fully developed in Spain to be sold around the globe. The PlayStation Talents program is formed by:

Two educational areas: PlayStation® Future Talents and PlayStation® First
The PlayStation® Awards, aimed at independent studios.
PlayStation® Games Camp, a business incubator that is present in Madrid, Sevilla, Bilbao, Valencia, Málaga, and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
PlayStation® Alliances, where different projects with well-known local studios that have been sold overseas come together.

More information at http://www.playstationtalents.es/

ABOUT SONY INTERACTIVE ENTERTAINMENT
Recognized as a global leader in interactive and digital entertainment, Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) is responsible for the PlayStation® brand and family of products and services. PlayStation has delivered innovation to the market since the launch of the original PlayStation in Japan in 1994.

The PlayStation family of products and services include PlayStation®4, PlayStation®VR, PlayStation®Vita, PlayStation®3, PlayStation™Store, PlayStation®Plus, PlayStation™Video, PlayStation™Music, PlayStation™Now, PlayStation™Vue, and acclaimed PlayStation software titles from SIE Worldwide Studios.

Headquartered in San Mateo, California, SIE is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sony Corporation and has global functions in California, London, and Tokyo.

Jonas “O.J” Ek
The Gaming Ground
Twitter: @TheGamingGround