A few weeks back, it was announced that Playdead’s Inside and Antagonist’s Through The Woods were up for awards at the 2017 Nordic Game Awards. While Through The Woods missed out on the Best Debut award (Art in Heart’s GoNNER took that one), Inside managed to grab four of the five awards for which it was nominated.
The game about a boy on the run from a sinister government snagged awards for Best Audio, Best Game Design, Best Art and the coveted Nordic Game of the Year. Inside missed out on winning all of its nominations with losing Best Technology to IO Interactive’s Hitman (which, if you keep up with gaming news, is a bittersweet award for that game and its developer). Surprisingly (or not, depending on your point of view), EA’s Battlefield 1, which was also nominated for five awards, went home empty-handed.
So, what does this mean for Playdead, which was also a big winner with Inside at the BAFTA Games Awards back in April? Well, co-founder Dino Patti will be heading off to Barcelona next month to speak at the Gamelab conference, but other than that, we’ll just have to see what masterpiece Playdead comes up with next.
