SHERMAN OAKS, California – Jan. 31, 2025 – After the success of The Game Awards for Games Who Can’t Afford the Game Awards (TGAGWCAGA), organizer Joystick Ventures to provide indie games a new space to spotlight talented teams in the gaming industry this Spring with the SUGOI Showcase, taking place Thursday, March 27.
[Developers, submit your games here]
The first S-video Ultra-64 Gameboy Object Icon (SUGOI) Showcase is here to prove that yes, you can create something amazing with a name like that. The showcase is spotlighting games that live up to their name – ridiculously awesome. Games that show new angles on beloved genres, go off the rails and break the rules a bit, or are just so odd that they leave a mark. SUGOI wants to showcase developers whose heart exceeds their marketing budget.
Developers with titles that fit the bill can submit here through Thursday, Feb. 20. Submission and participation are free, with a showcase to premiere on YouTube and a Steam page highlighting the 35 indie games selected.
SUGOI Showcase follows the successful last-minute awards show idea last December by Joystick Ventures and Pengonauts Studio to help promote their own game StarVaders while side-stepping the gaming industry’s typically steep costs of showcase participation. The showcase strives to carry the warmth and positivity generated by the gaming community in response to TGAGWCAGAs into the new year.
“Our game awards idea became bigger than we ever dreamed. We thought we’d only get responses from maybe 15 or so other games,” said Andrea Alvarez, Marketing Manager at Joystick Ventures. “We received more than 600 responses. We’re glad the success of TGAGWCAGA served as a springboard for our next opportunity to show you some truly cool games you may not have seen otherwise.”
SUGOI Showcase 2025 airs as a digital event on the official SUGOI Media YouTube channel on Thursday, March 27. Developers can submit their titles now through Thursday, Feb. 20 at this form, For more information, check out TGAGWCAGA 2024’s livestream from last December, and be sure to follow SUGOI on Bluesky and Twitter/X, visit Joystick Ventures’ official website, and follow them on Bluesky and Twitter/X.
