#FollowFriday all of the Develop Awards 2016 Finalists here

If you want to keep up to date with the latest news from the best firms in the development industry, you’ve come to the right place.

Below we have gathered the Twitter handles for all of this year’s Develop Awards finalists, from Acid Nerve to West Coast Studios.

108 companies – from tools providers to one-person studios – are in the running for prizes at this year’s awards ceremony, which will take place at the Brighton Hilton Metropole on Wednesday, July 13th during Develop: Brighton 2016.

The awards are supported by headline partner CV Bay, gold partners MoGI Group, Amiqus, Epic Games, Sumo Digital, Crytek, King, table gift partner OPM Jobs, exclusive drinks reception partner Keywords Studios, and event partner Tandem Events. Epic Games are also an award partner, as are Aardvark Swift.

Contact Charlotte Nangle via cnangle@nbmedia.com to find out about the opportunities available, both at the event and in editorial coverage before, during and after the Awards. 

To book your place at the event, email Georgia Blake via gblake@nbmedia.com – or book online at www.developawards.com.

Develop Awards 2016: The Finalists

CREATIVITY

New Games IP – PC/console

• Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture – The Chinese Room (@ChineseRoom)
• Her Story – Sam Barlow (@mrsambarlow)
• Quantum Break – Remedy Entertainment (@remedygames)
• Soma – Frictional Games (@frictionalgames)
• Tom Clancy’s The Division – Massive Entertainment (@UbiMassive)
• Until Dawn – Supermassive Games (@SuperMGames)
• Unravel – Coldwood Interactive (@ColdwoodGame)

New Games IP – Mobile

• Battlehand – Another Place (@AnotherPlaceLtd)
• DogBiscuit – Blackstaff Games (@BlackstaffGames)
• Omega Agent – Fireproof Games (@Fireproof_Games)
• Raceline CC – Rebellion (@Rebellion)
• Rival Kingdoms – Space Ape Games (@SpaceApeGames)
• Safari Tales – Kuato Studios (@KuatoStudios)
• Sandstorm: Pirate Wars – Ubisoft (@Ubisoft)
• Wonky Ship – Kiz Studios (@KizStudios)

Use of a Licence or IP

• Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady (@RocksteadyGames)
• Lego Dimensions – TT Games (@TTGames)
• Mad Max – Avalanche Studios (@AvalancheSweden)
• Star Wars: Twilight of the Republic – Ninja Theory (@NinjaTheory)
• The Escapists: The Walking Dead – Team17 (@Team17Ltd)
• The Witcher 3 – CD Projekt Red (@CDProjektRed)
• Warhammer 40,000: Freeblade – Pixel Toys (@PixelToysLtd)

Visual Arts

• Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture – The Chinese Room (@ChineseRoom)
• Dungeon of the Endless – Amplitude Studios (@Amplitude)
• Quantum Break – Remedy Entertainment (@remedygames)
• Project CARS – Slightly Mad Studios (@slightlymadteam)
• The Climb – Crytek (@Crytek)
• The Witcher 3 – CD Projekt Red (@CDProjektRed)
• Unravel – Coldwood Interactive (@ColdwoodGame)
• Until Dawn – Supermassive Games (@SuperMGames)

Audio Accomplishment

• Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture – The Chinese Room (@ChineseRoom)
• Quantum Break – Remedy Entertainment(@remedygames)
• Soma – Frictional Games (@frictionalgames)
• Star Wars Battlefront – EA DICE (@EA_DICE)
• Sublevel Zero – Sigtrap Games (@SigtrapGames)
• The Witcher 3 – CD Projekt Red (@CDProjektRed)
• Unravel – Coldwood Interactive (@ColdwoodGame)
• Until Dawn – Supermassive Games(@SuperMGames)

Use of Narrative

• Everybody’s Gone To The Rapture – The Chinese Room (@ChineseRoom)
• Her Story – Sam Barlow (@mrsambarlow)
• Quantum Break – Remedy Entertainment(@remedygames)
• Reigns – Nerial (@nerial)
• RuneScape – Jagex (@Jagex)
• Soma – Frictional Games (@frictionalgames)
• The Witcher 3 – CD Projekt RED(@CDProjektRed)
• Until Dawn – Supermassive Games(@SuperMGames)

TECH & SERVICES

Design & Creativity Tool

• Dehumaniser – Krotos (@DehumaniserSD)
• Enlighten – Geomerics (@Geomerics)
• Fabric – Tazman Audio (@Tazman_Audio)
• Granite – Graphine Software (@GraphineSoft)
• SpeedTree For Games – SpeedTree (@SpeedTreeInc)
• Substance Painter 2 – Allegorithmic (@Allegorithmic)
• Wwise – Audiokinetic (@Audiokinetic)
• Yebis 3 – Silicon Studio (@Silicon_Studio)

Production Tool

• Favro – Hansoft (@favroapp)
• GameBench – GameBench (@GameBench)
• GameLift – Amazon (@AmazonGameDev)
• GameSparks – GameSparks (@GameSparksLtd)
• Marmalade Platform – Marmalade Technologies (@marmaladeapps)
• Perforce – Perforce Software (@perforce)
• Simplygon – Donya Labs (@simplygon)
• Umbra 3 – Umbra Software (@umbra3d)

Engine

• CryEngine – Crytek (@Crytek)
• GameMaker: Studio – YoYo Games (@YoYoGames)
• GameGuru – The Game Creators (@TheGameCreators)
• Lumberyard – Amazon (@AmazonGameDev)
• PlayCanvas – PlayCanvas (@playcanvas)
• Stingray – Autodesk (@autodesk)
• Unity 5 – Unity Technologies (@unity3d)
• Unreal Engine 4 – Epic Games (@UnrealEngine)

Creative Outsourcer – Audio

• 93 Steps – Warhammer 40,000: Regicide (@93Steps)
• High Score Productions – War Thunder trailer (@hugh_edwards)
• Nimrod Productions – Rare Replay (@nimrodstudiosuk)
• Side – The Witcher 3 (@SideUK)
• Soundcuts – Quantum Break (@SoundCuts)
• The Audio Guys – Forza Motorsport 6 (@TheAudioGuys)

Creative Outsourcer – Visual & Development

• Audiomotion – Quantum Break (@Audiomotion)
• Dimensional Imaging – Quantum Break (@di4dcom)
• Axis – Halo 5 Opening (@axisanim)
• D3T – The Witcher III (PS4) (@d3tLtd)
• Realtime UK – Rare Replay intro (@RealtimeUK)
• Cubic Motion – Hellblade GDC demo (@cubicmotion)

Services

• DeltaDNA (@deltadna)
• Fireteam (@FireteamLtd)
• Flipbook (@flipbookstudio)
• Keywords Studios (@KeywordsStudios)
• Player Research (@PlayerResearch)
• Sperasoft (@Sperasoft)

QA & Localisation

• Localize Direct (@LocDirect)
• Lollipop Robot (@LollipopRobot)
• MoGi Group (@MoGi_Team)
• Testology (@Testologyltd)
• Testronic (@testroniclabs)
• Univerally Speaking (@USSpeaking)
• VMC (@vmcgames)

Recruiter

• Aardvark Swift (@AardvarkSwift)
• Amiqus (@WeAreAmiqus)
• Avatar Games Recruitment (@Avatar_Games)
• CV Bay (@CVBayGames)
• Datascope (@Datascope)
• OPM (@opmjobs)
• Skillsearch (@SkillsearchDigi)

STUDIOS

Publishing Hero

• All 4 Games (@All_4_Games)
• BadLand Games (@BadLandGamesUK)
• Curve Digital (@CurveDigital)
• Devolver Digital (@devolverdigital)
• ID@Xbox (@ID_Xbox)
• KISS (@KISSLtd)
• SCEE Strategic Content (@PlayStationEU)
• Team17 (@Team17Ltd)

Micro Studio

• Acid Nerve (@acidnerve)
• Dreamloop Games (@DreamloopGames)
• Frictional Games (@frictionalgames)
• Guerilla Tea (@GuerillaTea)
• Mouldy Toof (@MouldyToof)
• Squarehead Studios (@SquareheadStdio)
• Sam Barlow (@mrsambarlow)
• Wales Interactive (@WalesInter)

Independent Studio

• CD Projekt Red (@CDProjektRed)
• Codemasters (@Codemasters)
• Remedy Entertainment (@remedygames)
• Rovio (@Rovio)
• Space Ape Games (@SpaceApeGames)
• Supercell (@supercellgames)
• Supermassive Games (@SuperMGames)
• The Chinese Room (@ChineseRoom)

In-House Studio

• Creative Assembly (@CAGames)
• EA DICE (@EA_DICE)
• FreeStyle Games (@FSGStudio)
• IO Interactive (@IOInteractive)
• Massive Entertainment (@UbiMassive)
• Rocksteady (@RocksteadyGames)
• TT Games (@TTGames)

New Studio

• A Fox Wot I Drew (@afoxwotidrew)
• No Code Studio (@_NoCode)
• Sigtrap Games (@SigtrapGames)
• Torque Studios (@TorqueMCR)
• Triangular Pixels (@TriangularPixel)
• Unicube (@unicube)
• West Coast Studios (@WestCoastSoft)

Development Legend

• Hideo Kojima (@Hideo_Kojima_EN)