THE BIG CONFERENCE ANNOUNCES THE 2023 EDITION OF THE BIG CONTEST, WITH A PRIZE POOL OF 10,000 EUROS

This year's BIG Conference will be held during December 15-16 at Bilbao's Euskalduna Palace

The second Bilbao International Games Conference (BIG Conf) will host another edition of its indie awards ceremony. Formerly known as FS Play, the Bilbao Indie Games (BIG) Contest will award the best independent video games aiming to distinguish, award and promote creativity and innovation in the independent video games development scene. The BIG Contest will have a prize pool of 10,000 euros and will award the best games in three categories: the Most Innovative Game Award, the Best Basque Game Award, and the Best Student Game Award. The first two awards will have a €4,000 prize while the best student game will get rewarded with €2,000. The rules are available in this link, and you can submit your game here. Studios interested can submit their games in the BIG Contest using this form. Submissions are now open until October 31st.

This year's BIG Conference will be held at Bilbao's Euskalduna Palace, during December 15-16. Sara Borondo, a veteran and respected Spanish video games journalist, will repeat as head of the committee overseeing the contest. "Last year, the BIG Indie Contest faced the challenge of turning the page with a new name, and it rose to it with more than 150 games from 32 different countries taking part in its three categories", says Borondo. "Testament to the quality of its participants is that the winner of the Best Indie Game category, Endling, got a BAFTA too! I expect this year the Contest will grow even more thanks to the incredible quality of the indie games being released in the recent past. It's gonna be exciting!"


The winners of last year's BIG Indie Contest were the games Endling: Extinction is Forever (Herobeat Studios), Party Games (Tellmewow), and NOX: Chapter 1 (The Buua Studio).

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About the Bilbao International Games Conference

The BIG Conference continues the path opened by the Fun&Serious Game Festival, held in Bilbao for the first time in 2011. Under its motto —"celebrate video games culture and video games as culture"— the event gathered some of the most influential professionals of the industry while attracting tens of thousands of visitors. Its eclectic offer mixed industry professionals conferences as well as other activities for gamers: from fun, family-friendly activities to the Games Industry Forum, which focused on indie developers while always celebrating the best games of the year during the Titanium Awards. After the pandemic hiatus, which forced the event to hold a 100% online edition and a hybrid one the following year, the BIG Conf rebrands to become an exclusive event aimed at industry professionals.