Games For Change announces winners of 2024 Diverse Voices competition

July 7, 2024

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Games For Change recently released the full list of winners of the 2024 Diverse Voices program and is also accepting submissions for next year.

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Games For Change, in collaboration with HP and Google Play, announces the winners of Diverse Voices 2024.

Button City wins the Challenge Winner Award, highlighting Indigenous and female creators.

Don’t Forget won the Best in Innovation award for its unique perspective on dementia.

Songs of Travel and Puzzle Scout achieve the best results in the categories “Effect” and “Gameplay”.

Last week, Games for Change, in partnership with HP and Google Play, announced the winners of the second annual Diverse Voices New Stories Challenge. The goal is to promote and increase the visibility of underrepresented game developers in mobile gaming. In addition to announcing the winners, it was announced that the third annual edition will be accepting submissions until September 6, 2024. This next edition of the program will support developers by bringing existing games from other platforms to Android. Here’s this year’s winner.

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Games For Change – Winner of the Diverse Voices Competition 2024

Winner of the Challenge – Button City

Developed by: Subliminal Gaming (USA)
Game Description: Button City is a cozy narrative adventure game about a fox and his friends who team up to save their local arcade. Explore a diorama world, play exciting arcade games, complete quirky quests, and meet cute animal friends.
Team Background: Co-founded by an Indigenous artist, Subliminal Gaming strives to highlight the team members’ diverse worldviews as women and Indigenous people. Additionally, the team actively works to highlight diverse voices and encourage learning in their communities by teaching Indigenous youth game development and translating their games into the Navajo language.

Best Innovation – Don’t forget

Developed by: Digital Arts And Entertainment (Belgium)
Game Description: Recall your memories by searching for clues and playing brain-stimulating mini-games as you battle the effects of dementia. Explore three different key events in your life to find out what happened.
Team background: The team consists of students of different nationalities, backgrounds and genders. Through innovative mechanics they offer a unique perspective on dementia.

Best in Impact – Songs of Travel

Developed by: Causa Creations (Austria)
Game Description: An animated graphic novel that explores the unique stories of five migrants seeking a new start in Europe.
Team Background: Causa Creations is comprised of a diverse team of different cultural backgrounds, abilities, and genders focused on developing games with social impact and highlighting underrepresented stories and voices.

Best Gameplay – Puzzle Scout

Developed by: Leti Arts (Ghana)
Game Description: A word search game based on the great African history, re-exploring the historical chain of African countries, civilizations and tribes with young puzzle scouts.
Team Background: Leti Arts develops interactive content influenced by African history, folklore and culture, leveraging African talent to immerse players in African heritage.

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