Rookie Awards 2023
The 13th Annual Rookie Awards is open to young creatives in visual effects, animation, games, virtual reality, motion graphics and 3d visualisation. There is simply no better way to launch your career and start sharing your amazing work online.
Round of applause for our sponsors
Winners
Game of the Year | Immersive Media
On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category winners.
Winner: Night Blooms - A multisensory interactive installation
by JoLing
“Night Blooms” uses night-blooming flowers as the primary key visual in encouraging people to embrace human darkness. The night-blooming flowers serve as a potent metaphor, representing a personal journey toward self-discovery and realization amidst times of darkness.
Runner Up: Hide The Corpse
You wake up in a hotel room you've never seen in your life and right in front of you is a dead body... Quick! The police are on their way! Convince them you're innocent? No way they'll believe you. Only one solution: hide the corpse!
Highly Commended: Red Fleet K-19 VR
by AhmedShaheen, AidanWade, KhashayarEbrahimi, LukasSukackas, MartinJonas, MehmetK, TomasAnglim, TungDoThanh, and Viktoria
Welcome to Red Fleet K-19, a VR puzzle-solving game developed at Escape Studios. Dive into the depths of the K-19 Submarine, a Soviet nuclear sea vessel on the verge of explosion. Uncover the mystery of the crew's disappearance and save the submarine from imminent doom!
Highly Commended: MNEMONIC - VR Game/Experience (2022)
by andraberila, fabipeitzsch, imgonnabeokei, konstantinschraps, lilliluisaheckmann, shadabshayegan, tobiaseckerlin, valeska, and vincentltm
Collect the fragments of the broken sun and bring back some light to the world!
Highly Commended: TheraVR
by khushibhatt
Thera VR is the virtual reality gamification of physical therapy for the treatment and holistic healing of children with neuromuscular diseases.
Through an adventure of a lifetime by giving them the agency to foster independence and wonder!
Highly Commended: Alchemist Workshop VR
by AdamHajdu, GiselleCamacho, Jademouflier2269, JoeNewton, PiotrCzternasty, TrinityLi, and reecemccarthy
This VR level is a result of my group's 8-week development project at Escape Studios. The brief was to create a playable VR escape room with puzzle elements. Our mysterious Alchemist
Workshop awaits those brave enough to uncover its secrets!
People's Choice: MNEMONIC - VR Game/Experience (2022)
by andraberila, fabipeitzsch, imgonnabeokei, konstantinschraps, lilliluisaheckmann, shadabshayegan, tobiaseckerlin, valeska, and vincentltm
Collect the fragments of the broken sun and bring back some light to the world!
Finalists
Game of the Year | Immersive Media
On behalf of the sponsors and judges, The Rookies would like to congratulate the following category finalists.
