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04/26/2013 | Pressemitteilung

German Computer Game Award to "Black Pants Game Studio

The Kassel-based company "Black Pants Game Studio", a spin-off of the University of Kassel, was awarded the German Computer Game Prize in Berlin on Wednesday. The game developers won with their adventure game "Tiny and Big - Grandpa's Leftovers" in the category "Best Youth Game". The award is endowed with 75,000 euros.

The prototype of the game had already won the award for Best Youth Concept in 2011. "The fact that we have now won in the youth game category was a surprise for us," said a delighted computer scientist Christian Niemand from "Black Pants. Behind "Black Pants" are graduates and students of the University of Kassel: in addition to Christian Niemand, the computer scientists Johannes Spohr and Sebastian Schulz, as well as Tobias Bilgeri, Florian Grolig and Sebastian Stamm from the Art Academy. They have been developing the game since 2010, in which the anti-hero Tiny Jr. fights his way through a desert littered with ruins of a lost civilization - in search of a mysterious pair of underpants that his antagonist Big has stolen.

The 2013 German Computer Game Prize, worth a total of 385,000 euros, is awarded by the industry associations BIU and G.A.M.E together with the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media, Minister of State Bernd Neumann (MdB).

 

German Computer Game Award: www.deutscher-computerspielpreis.de/231.0.html
Black Pants Games Studio: www.tinyandbig.com
More about the project at. www.uni-kassel.de/uni/universitaet/nachrichten/article/deutscher-computerspielpreis-an-absolventen-und-studierende-der-universitaet-kassel.html

 

 

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Sebastian Mense
University of Kassel
Communications, Press and Public Relations
Tel.: +49 561 804-2474
E-mail: mense[at]uni-kassel[dot]de