#SWORCERY WINS GAME DEVELOPER CHOICE AWARD!

The response to #Sworcery has been overwhelming from the day it launched. Winning a Game Developer Choice Award at this year’s GDC… well… that… wow… that has melted our hearts and humbled us completely…

At this year’s Game Developers Choice Awards, our peers named Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP the Best Handheld/Mobile Game of 2011. In a very real way, it felt like a culmination of everything we had worked for, and everything we accomplished with the game.

What a crazy, crazy thing to have happened… What a crazy year we have had…

A sincere thanks to everyone who voted for us, supported us, and played the game.

And a humongous, heartfelt, teary-eyed thanks to Superbrothers and Jim Guthrie for going on this insane journey with us. We all jumped off a cliff together… and made this magical little thing called Sworcery…

This journey started at GDC… and in a way, that night, it ended at GDC.
Thank you so so so much.

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PENDELTON WARD + SWORCERY CASSETTES = BIZONKERS!!!!!!!

HOLY COW! This is BIZONKERS! Mr. Pendelton Ward, aka @buenothebear, aka Dr. Adventure Time himself, aka OUR HERO AND INSPIRATION, has created an amazing & charming-as-heck LIMITED EDITON PRINT for the next run of Jim Guthrie’s Sword & Sworcery LP!

Also, Jim went nuts in the best kind of way and decided to put The Ballad of the Space Babies on CASSETTTE! CASSETTE, PEOPLE!

PARTY FOREVER!!

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THANKS, NEW YORK VIDEOGAME CRITICS CIRCLE!

Kris Piotrowski (and a representative from Superbrothers) enjoyed a brief visit to NYC last week, prompted by a couple of Sworcery nominations from the New York Videogame Critics Circle. We’re super pleased to report that Sworcery took home the award for Best Mobile Game, and we’re also super pleased to report that Kris had a great time hanging out with Andy Nealen & friends all over beautiful Manhattan.

Huge thanks to the New York Videogame Critics Circle, especially Harold Goldberg, for putting this whole thing together! We are honoured.

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S:S&S EP=GAME DEVELOPER CHOICE AWARD NOMINEE!

And just when we though things couldn’t get any more crazier, unexpected (and humbling): Sworcery gets nominated for Best Mobile Game by the Game Developer Choice Awards.

Holy smokes! THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH, GDC Awards people! Our hearts are collectively melted and our minds are collectively blown.

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THANKS 2011!

Well heck, 2011 kicked off with a bucket of curveballs, but seems like it may have wrapped up with some genuine dingers! Yeee Haaawww!

SUPERBROTHERS: SWORD & SWORCERY EP

APPLE – APP STORE REWIND iPAD GAME OF THE YEAR RUNNER UP
TOUCH ARCADE – GAME OF THE YEAR
GAMESPOT – BEST MOBILE GAME 2011
148APPS – BEST GAME OF 2011
MASHABLE – iOS GAME OF THE YEAR
MASHABLE – iOS TOP RPGS
TIME MAGAZINE – 10 BEST GAMES OF 2011
IGN – BEST MOBILE ADVENTURE GAME 2011
KOTAKU – BEST GAME MUSIC OF 2011
KOTAKU – GAME OF THE YEAR NOMINEE
GAMASUTRA – MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR RUNNER UP
GAMASUTRA – TOP 10 INDIE GAMES OF THE YEAR
SPIKE VGA – BEST INDEPENDENT GAME NOMINEE
GAMEZEBO – BEST iPAD GAME 2011
GAMEZEBO – BEST ADVENTURE GAME 2011
INDIEDB – MUSICALITY AWARD
1UP – MOST SURPRISING GAME OF 2011
GAMESRADAR – BEST DOWNLOADABLE GAMES OF 2011
UNWINNABLE – BEST VALIDATION OF THE IPAD AS A PLATFORM
YAHOO – BEST PHONE/TABLET GAME
REVIEWS ON THE RUN – BEST iOS GAME
REVIEWS ON THE RUN – BEST iOS ADVENTURE GAME
PCMAG – 30 BEST iPAD GAMES
VENTUREBEAT – BEST INDIE GAMES OF 2011
VENTUREBEAT – BEST GAMES OF 2011 HONORABLE MENTION
VENTUREBEAT – TEN BEST iOS GAMES OF 2011
WIRED – 20 BEST GAMES OF 2011
APPOLICIOUS – BEST GAMES OF 2011
MACHINIMA INSIDE GAMING – BEST INDIE GAME NOMINEE
MACHINIMA INSIDE GAMING – BEST ART DIRECTION NOMINEE
XPLAY – MOST ORIGINAL GAME NOMINEE
XPLAY – BEST SOUNDTRACK NOMINEE
CANOE.CA / TORONTO SUN – TOP GAMES OF 2011
SLIDE2PLAY – TOP GAMES OF 2011
DESTRUCTOID – ‘WHY DID YOU NO PLAY THIS THING’ AWARD
SFSIGNAL – BEST GEEK ALBUMS OF 2011
POCKETGAMER – TOP 10 GAMES OF 2011
APPADVICE – 10 BEST PAID APPS OF 2011
PASTE MAG – 3rd BEST GAME OF 2011
MACWORLD – APP GEMS BEST iOS GAMES OF 2011
GLOBE & MAIL – TOP 25 GAMES OF 2011
NPR – TOP 10 GAMES OF 2011
QUALITY INDEX – TOP 10 IPHONE GAMES OF 2011

And Hot Dang! Even Clash of Heroes HD got some love!

CLASH OF HEROES

GAMASUTRA – DOWNLOADABLE GAME OF THE YEAR
PSNStores – BEST MULTIPLATFORM GAME
JOYSTIQ – BEST OF THE REST
EUROGAMER – GAMES OF 2011
IGN – BEST XLBA GAMES OF 2011

If we missed anything, please let us know!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you all. We love that you love us and we love you back. May 2012 bring everyone peace, love and great success, assuming it doesn’t bring everyone complete and utter apocalyptic devastation.

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LOTS OF STUFF & AWARDS & THINGS HAPPENED!

Nathan went to China + Kris went on a walkabout… meanwhile a whole bunch of stuff happened and we forgot to put ‘em up on our site!

INDIECADE WAS A SUPER BLAST

Sworcery won Best Visuals, taking home a the wacky award you see above!

Nathan and Kris delivered the closing talk, entitled S:S&S EP Post-Post Mortem. Superbrothers couldn’t be there but they created an amazing video, featuring words by Jim Guthrie, Robert Ashley, Scientific American and Brandon Boyer. If you’re interested in our talk, check it out here:

SWORCERY GOT NOMINATED FOR LOTS OF AWARDS!

SPIKE VGA – Best Independent Game

MACHINIMA’s Inside Gaming 2011 Awards – Best Art Direction and Best Indie Game

INDIE GAME MAG Awards

VENTUREBEAT – Top 10 iOS Games of 2011

MASHABLE – Best iPhone RPG’s

And lastly,

Superbrothers and Kris Piotrowski won Visual Artist of The Year and Designer of The Year at the Canadian Game Development Talent Awards, respectively.

HUGE THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR EVERYTHING!

We love you all

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