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Gamers Charity SpecialEffect announce One Special Game 2021 Winners
Fall Guys image bags Grand Prize in fan art competition
25th October - One Special Game announced the winning entries to their game fan art competition, with the Grand Prize being awarded to a stunning Fall Guys design by games artist Olly Klinkenberg (@Okkle).
The best The Sims poster award went to Tazreen Tasnim (@tazreentasnim), whilst the best poster based on Broken Sword went to Glen Fox (@glenatron87). A judges commendation was awarded to Andrea Motta (@osalvej) for her image based on Broken Sword.
Olly, from Warwick, UK, said, “I’ve always loved Fall Guys as it’s such a creative and joyful game to play. Even though I’ve only managed to actually win a single crown through hundreds of games you can’t not have fun running and stumbling about with all the other colourful beans!
I'm incredibly happy that my art has the opportunity to help raise money and awareness for a charity that does such amazing and important work as SpecialEffect.”
Olly wins the grand prize of a Nintendo Switch OLED, £100 of InsertCoin vouchers, an Adobe Stock Annual license, a £100 voucher for games clothing company Insert Coin, a game bundle from Perp Games, a G-Technology mobile SSD and a professional portfolio review.
A number of strictly Limited Edition prints from the competition will be on sale will all proceeds going to SpecialEffect here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/hestep1/. Each print will be hand-numbered and stamped.
A video showing some of this year's entries and winners is here: https://youtu.be/8U0L3LlmDSk
SpecialEffect’s Nick Streeter said, “The standard of entries this year was simply stunning. One Special Game is always one of the highlights of the whole #OneSpecialDay event, but this year, it’s been pushed to another level. We can’t thank Stephen Hey, Hollie Pattison and the team at Bastion enough for all their hard work in making the event so successful and spreading awareness of the charity so innovatively. Huge thanks as well to all the judges who generously gave their talents and time, to EA, Mediatonic and Revolution for allowing us to feature their titles, to our generous One Special Game partners and sponsors, and of course to everyone who entered.”
The judging panel for One Special Game included games art legends Lee Petty and Ron Ashtiani and Mediatonic’s Art Lead Anna Hollinrake. Judges from sponsors Sumo Digital, Ripstone, Escape Technology and Amiqus Recruitment.
The results in full:
- Overall Winner and Fall Guys Category Winner - Olly Klinkenberg
- The Sims Category Winner - Tazreen Tasnim
- Broken Sword Category Winner - Glen Fox
- Honourable Mention - Andrea Motta for their Broken Sword inspired design
ENDS
More information on One Special Game can be found at https://onespecialday.org.uk/onespecialgame/
Receive all the latest updates on the competition by following on social media:
Twitter: @OneSpecialGame1
Instagram: onespecialgame
For more on One Special Game please contact stephen@heystephenhey.com
If you would like more details about SpecialEffect, please contact Nick Streeter at nick@specialeffect.org.uk
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About SpecialEffect
Since 2007 SpecialEffect has been transforming the lives of people with severe physical disabilities across the globe through the innovative use of technology. At the core of this mission is our work to maximise enjoyment, inclusion and quality of life by enabling disabled people to control video games to the best of their abilities.
Our team of occupational therapists and gaming specialists here in the UK work one-to-one to create bespoke control set-ups for hundreds of individuals each year, while our Research & Development Team use what we learn ‘on the ground’ to develop industry-leading resources and technological solutions to help level the playing field for disabled gamers all over the world.
Our lifelong services are provided completely free of charge, thanks to the generosity of our amazing supporters and funding partners.
