Shortlist

The nominations have been ruminated 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/Team of the Year
• Creation of the Year

Excellence in Art Direction#

1. Trip's Voyage – Eupholace, Aevox23 and actualjimmyjam
2. WEB OF METAL – Intrattackout
3. Jungle Bill 2 – NibblersBox
4. The Quest For Self-Confidence – Todu
5. Housewave (+ TreeHouse) – venwave

Excellence in Environment Art#

1. Somewhere Between, Part 1: A Walk in the Park – BADROBO82
2. Epsilum – Jaavaa, MultiMoo and IansaneArtist
3. SWORD OF AKAANA: Final Demo – luke_972 and rukkurt
4. Into the Mist – Parkderk
5. Vineland 2 – ZIIQ and VitaminG_90

Excellence in Narrative#

1. Scelerophobia – Grothraw
2. Epsilum – Jaavaa, MultiMoo and IansaneArtist
3. Ye Olde Opposite Daye – MrCaseyJones
4. The Quest For Self-Confidence – Todu
5. Tides – venwave

Excellence in Sculpture#

1. Introducing: Fly-Million! – dinox11
2. Giga Bust – iDexTiGer
3. Imp – lillouakola81
4. Sooty's Flower Shop – SootyPinions
5. Portraits – ZIIQ

Music Track of the Year#

1. goth egg | slip and fall – CFulljames and KaTMalenjamz
2. THE INVENTOR'S MACHINE – Gianni_no_Mitaka and I--AURA--I
3. Let The Real You Reappear – Prince_Tahra
4. The Voyage for Golden Anchors – VinceKully and ghostfruit64
5. DarkSide [Live @ DreamSounds Amphitheater] – WileyisCOOL and Tricobalt

Musician of the Year#

1. Asian-Roro
2. CFulljames
3. duckenomics
4. Helekosi
5. M-molecul

Excellence in Animation#

1. AstroThumb Stories 2 – arseny3d
2. Duet II – byvsen
3. Scraps – MitterMak
4. Caféwave (Animated Painting) – venwave
5. Animals Gone Missin' – willow_the_bob

Excellence in Gameplay#

1. HeliTaxi – atheistsw, arepera and Zodira
2. Trip's Voyage – Eupholace, Aevox23 and actualjimmyjam
3. Friend_Request – Frostadoodle
4. Housewave (+ TreeHouse) – venwave
5. Chip Off the Old Block – VinceKully and ghostfruit64

Most Original Gameplay#

1. metA Innocence – FeyzPS
2. R.I.F.7 (Spot the difference) – KabarudonphaN18 and xMorpheuus
3. A Kid's Journey to One-Shot Everything Idle – Nicco555 and Computer_Cat
4. STRAIN – Orksom
5. Cubus – StinoAlpino and DeDefourkes

Curation Star#

1. UglySofaGaming
2. Orue223
3. FlashMedallion
4. LadyLexUK
5. FluffyNSassy

Excellence in Character Design#

1. Introducing: Fly-Million! – dinox11
2. Agatha Grindel (MODEL SHOWCASE) – kaifraz4048
3. Scraps – MitterMak
4. Nuhlm the Harold – Suthurnur and chelsea_mb712
5. Dragon Slayer – Tinydiorama

Excellence in Audio Design#

1. Trip's Voyage – Eupholace, Aevox23 and actualjimmyjam
2. NOGUCHI'S BELL EPISODE 2 – Cyber_Sheep_Film
3. Touch Everything – ghostfruit64
4. Tides – venwave

Innovation in Create#

1. LOOKING THROUGH - A Visual Puzzle Game – Todu
2. Endless Crowd Experiment – olit123
3. Bendy Man – VYZiUM-
4. Pic Importer Templates – coynem
5. Mine'A'Day – oooDORIENooo

CoMmunity Star#

CoMmunity Category

1. MrCaseyJones
2. NotreDamin
3. Nephrendil
4. Yah_Deh
5. InfiniDreams
6. KeldBjones
7. Elca_Gaming
8. UglySofaGaming
9. xMightyViciousx
10. RedSeikatsu-

Excellence in Voice Acting#

1. RedSeikatsu- in Red and the Phantom Castle Remake
2. Elfiooh in Il était une fois...
3. kimerakii in Cosmic Tale 3
4. ApesOnFire in Ye Olde Opposite Daye
5. Zodira in HeliTaxi

Most Helpful Dreamer#

CoMmunity Category

1. TAPgiles
2. VYZiUM-
3. OgTheEnigma
4. Intrattackout
5. LucidDreamChaser

Contribution Beyond Dreams#

1. xMightyViciousx & James_Wilson11
2. Elca_Gaming
3. Keduko_
4. InfiniDreams team(opens in new tab)
5. kimerakii

Excellence in VR#

1. Base VR Template for Moves/Dualshock – gauffreman
2. THE RANGE – KarstenStaack
3. N0 WAY HOME - ZERO GRAVITY (VR) – PIXELTUNER_92
4. Jungle Bill 2 – NibblersBox
5. A strange encounter in the forest – Orksom

Evolving Experience#

1. Trip's Voyage – Eupholace, Aevox23 and actualjimmyjam
2. The Backrooms | Threshold (Episode One) – MarshaIIsAccount
3. liminal mystery box – JohnnyBiscotti, MrCaseyJones and mattizzle1
4. R.I.F.7 (Spot the difference) – KabarudonphaN18 and xMorpheuus
5. TricoBiddy Bus Company – Tricobalt and blackcat_tracks

CoMmunity Collaboration#

CoMmunity Category

1. Community Garden Event – Nephrendil
2. GIBLETS 2 – TRIX9
3. Dreamflix Season 2 – KeldBjones
4. Il était une fois... – InfiniDreams
5. DreamsFest '22 – DreamsFest Team

Breakthrough Dreamer#

CoMmunity Category

1. MarshaIIsAccount
2. BOOMAN_2284
3. franzeboy
4. PickleWickle0
5. Orue223

Creator/Team of the Year#

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1. DreamsFest Team
2. Bohalaa
3. Eupholace
4. InfiniDreams
5. RedSeikatsu-
6. Todu
7. Tricobalt
8. Zed Exodus Team
9. venwave
10. willow_the_bob

Creation of the Year#

1. HeliTaxi – atheistsw, arepera and Zodira
2. DreamsFest '22 – DreamsFest Team
3. Bo's Island – byvsen and Fr0d0_FragginS79
4. Trip's Voyage – Eupholace, Aevox23 and actualjimmyjam
5. Friend_Request – Frostadoodle
6. RID - Memories of the Elders – LordBruce and Camian
7. SWORD OF AKAANA: Final Demo – luke_972 and rukkurt
8. GAIA HAWK – talc33
9. ZED EXODUS II – Zed Exodus Team
10. Tides – venwave