An evening full of emotions, between great international authors, excellent debuts, awards for extraordinary careers, for an unforgettable event for the world of comics and games: the Lucca Comics & Games awards, during an official ceremony at the Teatro del Giglio. And thanks to the collaboration with Rai, the Italian “Oscars” of comics and games are back this year on the small screen, involving the large television audience that could discover the best selection of comics and games published during the year. : A special episode of Wonderland (Rai 4) exploring the excellence of two of the festival’s founding fathers. The special will also be available on demand on RaiPlay.
And here are the winners of the 2022 edition of the awards dedicated to comics – the LUCCA COMICS AWARDS – selected by the jury composed of Dario Dino-Guida, the authors Werther dell’Edera and Miguel Vila, the journalist Bruno Luverà and the journalist Mara Famularo. This year again, the challenge was to choose the best comic books and their authors from hundreds of titles, regardless of nationality, editing format and distribution method.
And again, all the winners of the LUCCA GAMES AWARDS.
The Game of the Year jury, consisting of Paolo Cupola (President), Beatrice Parisi (Vice President), Riccardo Busetto, Fabio Cambiaghi, Alessio Lana, Caterina Ligabue, Giordana Moron, has decided to award the Game of the Year 2022 award acquainted with Le Chronicles of Avel, designed by Przemek Wojtkowiak and illustrated by Bartolomij Kordowski; developed by Rebel Studio and distributed by Asmodee Italia. A cooperative adventure title, it brings together 1 to 4 players ages eight and up who work together to defend the castle of Avel from the threat of a menacing horde of monsters. Before players start, they create their own character and then begin the adventure. By fighting monsters and interacting with the map, players acquire weapons, helmets, shields, and potions that will aid them in the quest and earn the money needed to build traps and defenses. The game takes place on a modular board that can change after each game and allows you to adjust the difficulty and offer game sessions that entertain adults and children. The seven members of the jury voted The Chronicles of Avel as the most successful game of 2022 because of its fluid game mechanics, punctual rules that allow you to quickly learn how to play, the well-maintained graphics sector and the materials that help keep the players in its fantasy atmospheres. . Also noteworthy is the extra content that deepens the narrative aspect and will be especially appreciated by the little ones.
Role play of the year
The Role Play Jury of the Year – consisting of Paolo Cupola (President) Mirella Vicini (Vice President), Osiride Cascioli, Michele Bellone, Anna Benedetto, Marzia Possenti and Daniele Prisco decided to award the prize to Fabula ultima, a game designed for 100% Made in Italy, written by Emanuele Galletto, published by NeedGames and distributed by Asmodee Italia. Inspired by the Japanese Role-Playing Game (JRPG), Fabula Ultima has a setting that must be built in a shared way by the players themselves based on the adventure you want to embark on. The game system, rich and easily adaptable to the needs of the players, as well as the clear and functional manual, offer ideas for a wide variety of adventures, of different durations. On an editorial level, the volume is presented as a highly accurate edition, with sections easily recognizable and well illustrated by Moryo.
Special mention to Green Oaks for the immediacy of the game system. Green Oaks is an RPG set, with refined irony, set in a bizarre retirement home from which the game takes its name. It presents itself as an elegant product that knows how to entertain with intelligence and guarantees a playful experience that is almost as simple as a trumps game, whose deck is used as a resolution system for random events.
Joe Dever Award
Dedicated to the author of the legendary Lone Wolf saga and attributed by the writer Pierdomenico Baccalario, the journalist Paolo Cupola, the influencer Chiara Papalia (aka Kodomo), the director for the film industry Beniamino Placido and the economist and university professor Alessandro Stanchi, the Joe Dever Award is the prize for the best cross-media operation of the year.
Board and role-playing game, hugely popular video game and now anime considered a cult, Cyberpunk in its thousand incarnations (not least Netflix’s recent Edgerunners series) is the winner of the Joe Dever Award 2022. The universe, created by the children’s imagination of CD Projekt, has the great credit of having managed to grow a literary subgenre, considered a “niche” even for science fiction fans, and has transformed it into a massive cultural phenomenon whose influence is not only on games and video games, on the small and big screen, but also in the world of music and fashion.
The Lucca Games Award’s Lifetime Achievement Award was instead awarded to Yoshitaka Amano. Thanks to his undisputed artistic talent, he had the merit of putting illustration in games at the center of the playful project and no longer just a mere aesthetic element to support the story and content, forever changing the concept of game graphics. His art has inspired generations of authors from all over the world and it is reasonable to expect that he will continue to do so for a long time to come. Yoshitaka Amano is a visionary and inspired illustrator, talented and prolific character designer, and co-author of one of the most famous video game sagas in contemporary history. award-winning Final series. Fantasy. He has also collaborated on iconic Japanese animation characters such as Gatchaman, Tekkaman: The Space Knight of Casshan.
Source: Lega Nerd
