If you missed it on our social media, we wanted you - our followers rooting for Misgiven's journey - to get the update on our previous announcement: our game won the Young Talent Award: Best Prototype last week in Munich! The prize includes 50,000 EUR in funding and national recognition, and is a huge opportunity to continue expanding our prototype!



The DCP (German Computer Game Award) has been awarded since 2009 and is organized by the German Federal Republic and the Game Association, with 15 categories and a total of 800,000 EUR in prize money this year!

You can watch the award show stream here: [previewyoutube=R3_20SHreNg;full][/previewyoutube]

For more info and lots more pics, head over to our website: https://symmetrybreak.com/2024/04/22/misgiven-wins-dcp-award-for-best-prototype/.

Today we at Symmetry Break Studio are incredibly happy to be able to share with you that Misgiven has been nominated as one of 5 Germany-wide titles for the Young Talent Award: Best Prototype at the German Computer Game Awards (DCP) 2024, securing at least the 25K EUR nomination prize

We quote here the touching review from the DCP jury for Misgiven, translated from the German version:

"Multiple-choice conversations appear in countless computer games. But very often the innovations end with the layout of the ready-made answers; instead of having a conversation, we traverse a tree diagram. In this way, we do not do justice to the feeling of really talking to other people.

Misgiven captures the insecurities and inhibitions in a conversation situation with an uncertain outcome with a brilliant idea: The protagonist of the graphic adventure sees more and less courageous answer options. Which of these she chooses depends on how relaxed and open she is feeling at the time. Unfortunately, she quickly stumbles into a tense negotiation situation under a false identity. Every sentence becomes a challenge. The innovation lies in a familiar genre - a graphic adventure game.

The mix of new ideas and tried and tested controls is convincing. The game captivates us with its gripping atmosphere and all-round professional presentation. The story elegantly transports current topics such as empathy, freedom, inequality, oppression and environmental destruction into a science fiction setting. Never have we looked forward to a toxic particulate matter tsunami as much as we do here."

Many thanks to the jury for this honor! We're hoping you'll keep your fingers crossed for us on 18th April at the award ceremony in Munich for the chance to win 1st prize and 50.000 EUR! And, of course, keep an eye out for the next steps in Misgiven's unyielding journey.

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you all an update if you've been wondering what we at Symmetry Break Studio have been up to.

Many of you may not have seen anything new about Misgiven ever since we showed the game at gamescom 2023. We want to let you know we're still hard at work, albeit a bit slower, as we hunt for a publisher and further funding for the game. Even though this introduces some delays in our development schedule, we're gearing up to come back in full force in 2024.

2023 was a very exciting year for Misgiven, all caused by your interest and support, whether you spoke or wrote about the game, hosted it at events, came up to us to talk about it, playtested it, offered feedback or wishlisted it. All these things were incredibly helpful and tremendously encouraging!

If you're keen on revisiting the excitement of gamescom in August 2023, here's a couple ways to do it:

• Read the thoughts of BBC journalist Laura Cress about Misgiven, listed among many other amazing adventure games she played at gamescom.
  
• Watch the playthrough of Misgiven's demo on the Indie Arena Booth livestream
  
• Those of you who speak German can listen to the Behind the Screens Mental Health-Spiele auf der Gamescom Podcast E076, hosted by psychologists Dr. Benjamin Strobel, Nicolas Hoberg and Jessica Kathmann, in which they look at video games from the perspective of psychology.