2010 ATOM Awards calls for games

Mike Bantick
Wednesday, 03 March 2010 12:30

IT Industry - Development

Entries are now open for the 2010 ATOM (Australian Teachers Of Media) Awards in Australia and New Zealand.  This is a prestigious award recognised by makers of Film, Television, Animation and Multimedia products; increasingly this includes developers of video-games.

Entries are now open for the 2010 ATOM Awards, and the organising committee is encouraging game developers, of all size, to get involved.

'The ATOM Awards are all about recognising and celebrating excellence in productions that are created for the screen - be it the movie, television, PC, games console or even the mobile phone screen. In recent years, we have introduced categories to acknowledge excellence in interactive video games and we are continually encouraged by the quality and variety of games we receive from industry and students alike,' commented Simon Wilmot, ATOM Awards Executive Officer.

'Games have become such a fantastic part of the creative outlet that we call 'media' that it's only fitting that we now celebrate games technology as part of the ATOM Awards program, particularly as more and more games are being created from an educational and developmental point of view.'

'So, we're putting out the call to all those fabulous games developers we have out there to enter their productions in the 2010 ATOM Awards. The entries last year were most impressive and innovative, so we are looking forward to seeing what the game developers are going to enter in to this year's ATOM Awards..' he added.

There are two key interactive video games categories in the ATOM Awards program - 'Best Interactive Video Game', which is open to both game developers and students and 'Best Student / Tertiary Interactive Video Game', for games created by school and tertiary students only.

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