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“You don’t seem like real players,” says moderator Barbara Schöneberger when Uschi and Georg are added. Georg, born in 1945 and dressed in an elegant suit, responds to what he has to answer as the star of the YouTube channel “Seniors gamble”: “What should the players be like?”
It is only a brief moment at the presentation of the German Computer Games Award on Monday, which has mutated into a two and a half hour live marathon due to the crown crisis. But the scene shows: a gaming gala, without any gaming cliche – the world is not that far away after all. “Social distancing, the pizza delivery service at home, many of you have been practicing for decades,” Schöneberger had started that night.
After all, he quickly ended up with such standard pranks, unlike the failed gala of the previous year. At the 2019 Computer Game Award, Schöneberg’s television colleague Ina Müller accomplished the tragic feat of not even making the winners look good. People even sympathized with Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer when Müller asked him on stage if he preferred “Killer Games” or a pornographic site to disconnect from.
A good year of play
There were no shameful moments of this caliber this year. Because Schöneberger asked reasonable questions, but also because game expert Nino Kerl was sitting next to him. Otherwise, he runs a YouTube channel about Japanese pop culture, and as a former editor of a gaming magazine, he quickly found a good tone when dealing with guests and the social media audience.
Overall, games and developers were more in the foreground than in previous years. The winners, who now share 590,000 euros in prizes, were selected by an expert jury. And he obviously knew what he was doing: After the point-and-click adventure “Trüberbrook” in the previous year, Ubisoft’s “Anno 1800” became the best German game, the newest part of the legendary building game “Anno ” Row.
The fact that 2019/2020 was a relatively strong year for German games was demonstrated by other awards that went to original ideas such as the waiting game “The Longing” (best debut) and “Sea of Solitude” (best game of the world and aesthetics) deals with topics such as fear and loneliness. Meanwhile, the best serious game has been awarded “Through the Darkest of Times”, in which players organize resistance against the Nazis. The audience award was won for the Nintendo Switch version of the 2015 RPG classic “The Witcher 3,” which released in October.
It can also be done digitally
Throughout the night, the Schöneberger-Kerl duo have always managed to create enjoyable moments where award-winning developers like Jan Bubenik (“Lonely Mountains: Downhill”) and Anselm Pyta (“The Longing”) were pleasantly authentic about their prices. they were happy, the latter with a “Oh my gosh … oh no” when he realized he had to say something now.
The fact that the 2020 award was held online, and not as planned at the Löwenbräukeller in Munich, was not a major disadvantage to the public, unlike the developers, who presumably would have enjoyed a gala night in a row from an industry party.
However, in terms of video chat clichés, the night offered everything you can expect during home office hours: from the lost use of a lauder to the lack of sound in an award-winning jubilee to a short keyboard typing live in the air, because apparently someone has their microphone. It had not been turned off.
Appreciation of a career in electronic sports.
For the 2020 gala, the price of computer gaming was reinvented a bit, new “Player of the Year” awards were introduced. At the premiere of that category, former e-athlete Gob b alias Fatih Dayik was delighted to receive an award: in 2019 he had finished his long career as a professional counterattack player. (All other winners can be found in the box.)
Much smaller than usual, from the viewer’s point of view, one has to say: Fortunately, this time the proportion of speeches by politicians turned out to have something to do with the computer games industry. However, in this regard, the gala had a little flavor: this time, the Minister of Transport, Andreas Scheuer, expressed his opinion, as did the Bavarian Minister of State for Digital Affairs, Judith Gerlach, and Dorothee Bär, the Federal Government digitization officer. Under the program, Bavarian Prime Minister Markus Söder originally intended to be the lucrator.
With this alignment, the computer game award, which the federal government is organizing in conjunction with the industry association game and the Stiftung Digitale Spielekultur, appears to be politically firm in the hands of the CSU.
