The GAM3 Awards, recognized for its recognition of excellence in web3 gaming, is getting into its second yr. Set for Dec. 14, the ceremony will have a good time the trade’s best throughout an array of classes.
The awards ceremony is organized by GAM3S.GG, a platform that has styled itself as “the house of web3 gaming”, and Magic Eden, a community-driven NFT market, goals to showcase the continuing developments within the sector.
Contenders for this yr’s high awards embody new web3 titles recognized for his or her modern gameplay and immersive experiences, providing stiff competitors to earlier winners. These embody Huge Time, the Sport of the 12 months 2022 winner, which not too long ago launched its preseason and recreation financial system, and Shrapnel, final yr’s Most Anticipated Sport, now gearing up for its eagerly-awaited public playtest.
Final yr’s GAM3 Awards noticed over 100 web3 video games nominated throughout 16 classes, every designed to honor the perfect in web3 gaming as chosen by an knowledgeable panel and the gaming neighborhood. This yr, the occasion returns with the identical classes, introducing three new ones: Greatest Combating Sport, Greatest Sports activities Sport, and Greatest On-Chain Sport.
The video games can be assessed primarily based on a number of sides, together with core loop, accessibility, replayability issue, enjoyable parts, graphics, and the general gameplay expertise. Solely video games with a reside, playable model assembly these standards can be eligible for nomination, barring the Most Anticipated Sport class and the Individuals’s Alternative Award.
An knowledgeable panel, together with thought leaders and trade veterans, will serve on the jury by a various and clear voting course of. This yr’s jury contains new representatives from web3 gaming VCs, ecosystems, infrastructure companions, content material creators, and conventional gaming leaders. They may be part of tech giants like Amazon and Google.
The jury’s resolution will account for 90% of the ultimate end result, with neighborhood votes contributing the remaining 10%. Nevertheless, classes just like the Individuals’s Alternative Award and Greatest Content material Creator will rely completely on neighborhood voting, whereas the Video games’ Alternative Award will see recreation studios voting for his or her favourite recreation of the yr.
Nominations commenced on October twenty sixth by way of the GAM3S.GG platform and can proceed till the shortlist is introduced forward of the ultimate voting. Final yr, the awards gathered over 250,000 votes and reached an viewers of greater than 30,000 viewers by way of reside streams, making it an occasion to be careful for this yr.
Winners can be awarded prizes totaling over $2 million, with sponsorship from main tech gamers Amazon and Google, alongside Blockchain Sport Alliance and Magic Eden.
Disclosure: cryptospotsa’s Liam ‘Akiba’ Wright will function a decide for the second annual GAM3 Awards.
