Meet the winners of the Bafta Young Game Designers Awards

Evil time-travelling vampire giraffes, a heroic granny and bad puns to make you cringe were just some of the ideas celebrated at a big awards event for young game designers.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (Bafta) Young Game Designers competition encourages young people to develop their ideas for games.

And the 2020 winners have been announced.

The awards were done a little differently this year because of social distancing rules, so Thursday's ceremony was live streamed.

Host Aoife Wilson said: "The ceremony is certainly going to look a little different this year but it's still going to be just as special!

"I just hope my cat doesn't interrupt whilst I'm hosting."

The awards are given to young game designers from the UK. This year is the ceremony's 10th year.

The competition aims to encourage young gamers and designers to create, develop and present their new game idea to the world.

One of last year's winners, Max Robinson, had his game design praised by Prince William.

His game LASERASE: Demolition in the future - made it to EGX - the UK's biggest gaming event - and lots of people got to play what he had designed!

Matt, 14, from Sheffield, won in the Game Concept Award in the 10-14 category with his game Strung Up.

Players control grandmother and granddaughter duo Sam and Lana, and the aim is to collect seven strings to tie together to make the rope that can tie souls down to the earth!

Evie, a 15-year-old from Grantham, created the game 'Fruit Frenzy,' which won the 15-18 Game Concept Award!

The aim of Evie's winning game is to "tackle the challenges of infuriating insects and malicious mould to get to the checkout in the 'gross-ery' store - against the clock of their best before dates!".

Alex, 13, from London won the award for game making in the 10-14 category.

His game, 'Complicated Co-operation' involves two players connected by an elastic cord.

Players then have to "make their way through 12 unique castles, each with obstacles blocking the way to the two exits".

17-year-old Michael from Oldham won the 15-18 game making award for his game - 'Contramotion'.

"A minimalist 2D platformer based around mirror images and bad puns," is how Bafta describe it.

"Contramotion is a game centred around two genderless cubes, Remmie and Rumble, who over the course of the game achieve absolutely nothing except making all those who hear their dialogue cringe in despair."

The winners had some tough competition in their categories, with lots of talented children in the running for the awards.

Morayo, 12, was a finalist in the 10-14 year old category for game concept.

Her game Griffindeim is based on the nine worlds found in Viking religion. Players can defeat and befriend giants and monsters called Barics!

10-year-old Jessica and 12-year-old Elsie from Sheffield designed Attack of The Evil Time-Travelling Vampire Giraffes of Utter Doom.

They were finalists in the 10-14 year olds game making category

They said: "Attack of the Evil Time-Travelling Vampire Giraffes of Utter Doom is a wacky platform game where you play as a knight attempting to prevent giraffes rewriting history by jumping on their heads."

13-year-olds, Andrew, Caden, and Iggy from Croydon are also finalists in the game making category for their game - Evolution.

They described their game as: "A survival game where you play a gorilla running around collecting berries and food, but avoiding lions."

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