VIJAYAWADA: Guntur-based cellular and laptop gaming organization Street Lamp Games, a brainchild of 27-yr-vintage Gurijala Deepak, became the first Indian company to win the Indie Prize Casual Connect Europe Award (IPCC) 2019, one of the top five international gaming awards, within the nice mobile recreation category.
The award for the 25th edition of the video games professionals’ international conference was offered at the Queen Elizabeth II Centre, London, on May 30, in which Deepak and his crew obtained the award in conjunction with the triumphing amount of USD 36,000, about Rs 25 lakh. Speaking to TNIE, Deepak said, “Many Indian organizations were nominated in several classes within the past; however, this is the first time that one has certainly received the opposition. I feel happy that coming from a small metropolis, I could make my USA proud.”An eight-member team comprising founder and concept director Deepak, clothier Mahesh Athirala, developer Bharat Khalapara, artist Raj Vishnu and Shashank K, programmer Nikhil Gandhamuneni, Kalyan, and Madhu came up with the cellular online game called ‘Bombarika.’
Casual Connect Europe Award felicitates video games in eight categories: satisfactory audio, pleasant sport design, pleasant game art, pleasant youngsters and family recreation, nice narrative sport, great revolutionary sport, target market preference award, and the best cell game. Bombarika was nominated in four classes: quality recreation layout, quality recreation artwork, great modern sport, and great cell match.
Deepak explained the sport: “It is a puzzle sport in which a bomb is randomly dropped on a residence, and the player has to detect the bomb and throw it out of the residence using household items to save the house.”
Bombarika additionally won at the Indian Game Developer Conference in 2018.
In IPCC, 90 participants were shortlisted out of the preliminary four 000 individuals from 40 forty countries. “It changed into a three-day conference, and prizes had been purported to be introduced on the final day. We got here to recognize that we had been decided on in April. But, until May 29, which turned into the remaining however second day of the conference, we no longer recognized that we had gained the prize. We had been asked to wait for the prize distribution ceremony, so we thought we could have been nominated, which is a regular factor. The announcement of the award got here to us as our existence’s largest surprise,” expressed Deepak.
Born to G V Sheshagiri Rao and G Jayashree, Deepak started his enterprise on June 6, 2016, with a funding of Rs four lakh. He has evolved four games — Gravita Bridge, Cubots – The Origins (most effective for computer), Bombarika, and Cursed Arena.
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