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Games for Change Award Nomination + Giveaway Winners

We're very pleased and humbled to announce that Phoenix Springs is nominated for Best In Innovation at the Games for Change Awards.



We will not be at the ceremony in New York in person, but you can join the celebration here: bit.ly/G4C2025

In other news, we've also announced the results of our merch giveaway. Congratulations to our four winners!

• Deluxe Boxset #1: boxo*******[email protected]
• Deluxe Boxset #2: capt*******[email protected]
• A1 Poster: mho*****[email protected]
• Phoenix Springs T-shirt: naz***[email protected]

If you recognise your address and haven't received a message, please get in touch. It's possible the email was caught in the spam filter.

Didn't win anything? Don't worry: we'll announce a second merch giveaway later this year! Items are selling out fast, though :)

Thank you for participating.

FREE Merch Giveaway!

Hi everyone,

to celebrate the launch of the Phoenix Springs merch page, we're giving away:

• 1 T-shirt
• 1 Deluxe Boxset
• 1 A1 Poster

It's completely FREE to enter. All you have to do to win is fill out this form!

Best of luck,

Calligram ❤️

London Short Film Festival Panel With Coal Supper (Thank Goodness You're Here)

Event anouncement!

Jigmé Özer (Calligram) will join James Carbutt and Will Todd (Coal Supper) at a London Short Film Festival panel to chat about games, writing, animation (and maybe cry about Lynch 😢)

📍Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Grn Rd, London E1 6LA
📆 Tuesday 21 January
⏱️3:50 - 5:00 PM GMT



Thank you to Games London for organising. You can find more information about the event here:

https://lsff2025industry.eventive.org/passes/buy


You can buy the critically-acclaimed Thank Goodness You're Here here:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2366980/Thank_Goodness_Youre_Here/

Phoenix Springs nominated for Best Writing @ The New York Game Awards!

Phoenix Springs is nominated for the Herman Melville Award for Best Writing in a Game at the New York Game Awards 2024!!

Absolutely surreal to see our tiny project next to heavy hitters such as 1000xResist and Metaphor: Refantazio.

• You can find the list of all the nominees here.
• More info about the ceremony on January 21st.

Thanks everyone for your support and kind words!

Calligram x

🏆 Phoenix Springs Wins the "Are Games Art? Yes, Of Course" Award!



🏆 Woohoo! Phoenix Springs wins the "Are Games Art? Yes, Of Course" Award at the 2024 TGAGWCAGA!

If you've missed it, you can watch the whole live stream with chat replay here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prrLRWxntgg&t=7240s

What a fun event and lovely chat/community. Thanks so much and congrats to all the nominees, winners and organisers.

There is also an ongoing Steam event, so make sure you check out all the other amazing games mentioned:

https://store.steampowered.com/curator/45328769-The-Great-Awards-for-Games-With-Creative/sale/tgagwcaga