Shortlist

The nominations have been counted and the shortlists are here. The following creations and their creators have all done enormously well to get to this stage, congratulations!

• Excellence in Art Direction
• Excellence in Environment Art
• Excellence in Narrative
• Excellence in Sculpture
• Music Track of the Year
• Musician of the Year
• Excellence in Animation
• Excellence in Gameplay
• Most Original Gameplay
• Curation Star
• Excellence in Character Design
• Excellence in Audio Design
• Innovation in Create
• CoMmunity Star
• Excellence in Voice Acting
• Most Helpful Dreamer
• Contribution Beyond Dreams
• Excellence in VR
• Evolving Experience
• CoMmunity Collaboration
• Breakthrough Dreamer
• Creator(s)/Team of the Year
• Creation of the Year

Excellence in Art Direction#

1. Lullaby for a Beagle – ghostfruit64
2. Triangle is Sentient – ItsMeJuvy
3. The Idyllium – ZIIQ, Helekosi and Bevis2
4. ASCENT REMASTERED – payoffwizard
5. Tales from Dark Town: Red Zone – DirtyFlusher and dinox11

Excellence in Environment Art#

1. The Time Looper – IansaneArtist
2. NOGUCHI'S BELL Episode 1 – Cyber_Sheep_Film
3. Tales from Dark Town: Red Zone – DirtyFlusher and dinox11
4. The Finalist demo – Paulo-Lameiras
5. go. – ghostfruit64

Excellence in Narrative#

1. Tales from Dark-Town: HOME COMING – DirtyFlusher
2. Making the Leap – keenardo
3. The Vengeful Eyes 2 – InsaneAlphaBeta
4. OPEN-WORLD BOXING GAME – hipporick
5. The War to End All Wars – DerAnder_96

Excellence in Sculpture#

1. Camille the chameleon – julio_grr
2. MEDUSA – FunK_97_ITA
3. Realistic Horse Showcase (Playable) – willow_the_bob
4. Search – ghostfruit64
5. Joy – GoGoSaint

Music Track of the Year#

1. SLEEP PARALYSIS – TheRedProphett, Dj_Frags-_-, lugadi, kaifraz4048, and ineap09
2. Ethlx – sacboy2003
3. A Beautiful mud – M-molecul
4. Who's afraid of the big bad bass – orionvalentine, MCalchemist42, blackcat_tracks and lugadi
5. Starlight – Prince_Tahra

Musician of the Year#

1. Prince_Tahra
2. Gianni_no_Mitaka
3. duckenomics
4. VinceKully
5. RAKeogh

Excellence in Animation#

1. Solar Blast – Paulo-Lameiras
2. Ultimate Platformer Kit Demo – MitterMak
3. Super Duper Fruity Juicy Juice – Byvsen
4. NOGUCHI'S BELL Episode 1 – Cyber_Sheep_Film
5. Stylized Character / Face Animations – willow_the_bob

Excellence in Gameplay#

1. Starfighter Gemini – BOTheGrand, Drummin7Jeff and OkieDoKees
2. TRIA-GONE – Angelotje
3. Claustrofactory – Aecert, PieceOfCraft and duckenomics
4. Solar Blast – Paulo-Lameiras
5. Master Blaster – payoffwizard

Most Original Gameplay#

1. Impressionable – Entropy-Tamed
2. The Path of Illusions – Todu
3. Commonote – FeyzPS
4. Dungeon Roulette – oooDORIENooo
5. Nine Equals – danikaka, cutaia_net and Pixel_Gorilla

Curation Star#

1. Pookachoo
2. TRIX9
3. LyzLdy
4. NaturiumCreepy
5. UglySofaGaming

Excellence in Character Design#

1. 九尾－The NineTail Fox – a-tziluth
2. STRETCH – Kermideus
3. Grub Knight – icecreamcheese
4. CAVEBOT 977 – Canadian__Jedi
5. Commonote – FeyzPS

Excellence in Audio Design#

1. Solar Blast – Paulo-Lameiras
2. The Idyllium – ZIIQ, Helekosi and Bevis2
3. Fragments (#AutisticaPlayJam) – OptimusCries, NikoJaXs and thyon
4. The Vengeful Eyes 2 – InsaneAlphaBeta
5. Claustrofactory – Aecert, PieceOfCraft and duckenomics

Innovation in Create#

1. The Path of Illusions – Todu
2. DreamsFest 2021 – DreamsFest Team (beardofcats88, pinkbelt, Phreaky, DirtyHarolds, Hackjaz, NotreDamin, oLiamS47o, Mystical_Vortex_, LOLPokemanz, atheistsw, DissObeyGaming, TapGiles, Reddishboat, animeboy0021, Radladdy, DissObeyGames, AutumnSatire, Ichiban_Keneda)
3. Stylized Character / Face Animations – willow_the_bob
4. Nine Equals – danikaka, cutaia_net and Pixel_Gorilla
5. Frontier – sanderobros and SDorin

CoMmunity Star#

CoMmunity Category

1. D-Generationl
2. oooDORIENooo
3. Keduko_
4. SNRG_Driven
5. KeldBjones

Excellence in Voice Acting#

1. CAVEBOT 977 – Canadian__Jedi
2. NINJA CAT III Episode 1 – YuMex196, SmurfsX3, mgs61794, xxRehab_Rejectxx, HIKOOSEN, EmilyJrulz, Esuki, eustoma and KL-05y
3. Red and the Cursed Isles – RedSeiktasu-
4. Cosmic Tale 2 – Bohalaa, Prince_Tahra, SaucelessOne, NinjaMicWZ, Sekulic0, kimerakii
5. OPEN-WORLD BOXING GAME – hipporick

Most Helpful Dreamer#

CoMmunity Category

1. SNRG_Driven
2. Entropy-Tamed
3. TapGiles
4. VinceKully
5. SakkusMind

Contribution Beyond Dreams#

1. Elca_Gaming
2. Made in Dreams Podcast(opens in new tab)
3. Nicco555 & Computer_Cat
4. UglySofaGaming
5. SakkusMind

Excellence in VR#

1. the RESTLESS DARK Demo – s-001
2. TRIA-GONE – Angelotje
3. Imagination VR: Dinosaurs – LifeAsNeil
4. Frontier – sanderobros and SDorin
5. Metro Street Racer - California Coast – atheistsw and animeboy0021

Evolving Experience#

1. Ultimate Platformer Kit Demo – MitterMak
2. liminal mystery box – JohnnyBiscotti and MrCaseyJones
3. Splatty's Adventure – RDKatrell22, pbgamer96, NiloFranck, Sliverscreen, SoInDiverse
4. The Web – cat135
5. Final Hour: Prelude to Prologue – DownerIsland

CoMmunity Collaboration#

CoMmunity Category

1. DreamFlix – KeldBjones
2. Speed Create – InfiniDreams and Elfiooh
3. TOTS2: TP Spree – Pookachoo
4. DreamsFest 2021 – DreamsFest Team (beardofcats88, pinkbelt, Phreaky, DirtyHarolds, Hackjaz, NotreDamin, oLiamS47o, Mystical_Vortex_, LOLPokemanz, atheistsw, DissObeyGaming, TapGiles, Reddishboat, animeboy0021, Radladdy, DissObeyGames, AutumnSatire, Ichiban_Keneda)
5. Marble Multiverse – Entropy-Tamed

Breakthrough Dreamer#

CoMmunity Category

1. fluximux
2. Sprattla-Art
3. StAnKHaNk
4. hipporick
5. Keenardo

Creator(s)/Team of the Year#

1. ghostfruit64
2. payoffwizard
3. DreamsFest Team (beardofcats88, pinkbelt, Phreaky, DirtyHarolds, Hackjaz, NotreDamin, oLiamS47o, Mystical_Vortex_, LOLPokemanz, atheistsw, DissObeyGaming, TapGiles, Reddishboat, animeboy0021, Radladdy, DissObeyGames, AutumnSatire, Ichiban_Keneda)
4. Cyber_Sheep_Film
5. Paulo-Lameiras
6. fluximux
7. Aecert
8. Dirtyflusher
9. Entropy-Tamed
10. SDorin & sanderobros

Creation of the Year#

1. Solar Blast – Paulo-Lameiras
2. liminal mystery box – JohnnyBiscotti and MrCaseyJones
3. DreamsFest 2021 – DreamsFest Team (beardofcats88, pinkbelt, Phreaky, DirtyHarolds, Hackjaz, NotreDamin, oLiamS47o, Mystical_Vortex_, LOLPokemanz, atheistsw, DissObeyGaming, TapGiles, Reddishboat, animeboy0021, Radladdy, DissObeyGames, AutumnSatire, Ichiban_Keneda)
4. Tales from Dark Town: Red Zone – DirtyFlusher and dinox11
5. The Idyllium – ZIIQ, Helekosi and Bevis2
6. Frontier – sanderobros and SDorin
7. NOGUCHI'S BELL Episode 1 – Cyber_Sheep_Film
8. ASCENT REMASTERED – payoffwizard
9. Claustrofactory – Aecert, PieceOfCraft and duckenomics
10. Triangle is Sentient – ItsMeJuvy