March represented a new high for SnowCastle Interactive. It began with the announcement on March 1 that our new game project Festival of Magic had been granted NOK 1 million in development support from the Norwegian Film Institute. Just days later we were named the Most Promising New Norwegian Developer at Gullstikka, the annual Norwegian Game Award Show. Bendik had just completed his little acceptance speech when he was called up on the podium once again to receive the second award, this time for Best Artistic Achievement in a Norwegian Game for Hogworld: Gnart’s Adventure. So here is to you, Gnart, for a pretty amazing trophy shelf in your short life!
There was lots more in March as well: Bendik and Eivind attended GDC in San Francisco and came back inspired by great workshops and meetings with their pockets stuffed with calling cards. Erik travelled to Italy, where he was one of the speakers at the Tools of Change Conference, part of the Bologna Book Fair. His talk to the book publishing industry on how game developers bring a new perspective to interactive storytelling was well received and quoted in the Italian press.
Oh, and while we are at it: Our good friends at Virtual Game Worlds also received a grant from the Norwegian Film Institute for their new title, Company of Mammals. I menton this because, the credits for both concept art and direction in Company of Mammals go to SnowCastle artists Fredrik and Fridtjof!
So, not a bad month at all.
