The Bilbao International Games Conference has just closed its first day with the Titanium Awards,
which have crowned The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom as the best game of the year and The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood, by Deconstructeam, as the Best Spanish Independent Game of 2023. In addition, the BIG Conference honored Dinga Bakaba, director of Arkane Lyon, and Katsuhiro Harada, director of the Tekken saga, with Honorary Awards for their careers in the video game industry.
Katushiro Harada, responsible for the Teken saga, has come to Bilbao to collect the Honorary Award of the BIG Conference 2023 for his contribution to the history of videogames and to talk with Antonio Santo, director of the event, about his career. Dinga Bakaba told his point of view as director of the studio behind the games Dishonoured 2 and Deathloop in an interview with Antonio Santo. The speech have been focused on the importance Bakaba gives to the world in which the action takes place and the importance of teamwork. “Thinking about what I enjoyed when I was a child in the games is the possibility of visiting new worlds, meeting new people… the same as in the books but with a higher degree of involvement”.
David Erosa and Paco Ureña, from The Game Kitchen studio, explained the challenge of developing the sequel to Blasphemous. In their presentation they talked about how difficult it is to accuratelly manage the public’s expectations, something that can easily be the downfall of independent studios. “With Blasphemous 2 we had to change everything to keep it the same. This is the biggest challenge of all.” Irina Moreno, from Chibig Studio has revealed the keys behind the strategy for Mika and the Witch’s Mountain’s Kickstarter campaign. “Spoiler: no, we don’t have a million euros in the bank account” she clarified after revealing the €1,300,368 figure that the campaign managed to raise.
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