{"id":404669,"date":"2026-04-22T06:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/404669\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T06:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T06:24:09","slug":"neowiz-awards-aim-to-inspire-support-global-indie-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/404669\/","title":{"rendered":"NEOWIZ awards aim to inspire, support global indie games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/2998e9e0-4825-4ddc-aabb-3bb2861e059e.jpg\" style=\"height: auto; aspect-ratio: 1920 \/ 1225; width: 100%\" alt=\"NEOWIZ co-CEO Kim Seung-chul, right, poses with Giacomo Montagnoli, developer of FLAT28's Glasshouse, which won first place at the NEOWIZ Indie Quest awards, during a ceremony held at NEOWIZ's headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday. Courtesy of NEOWIZ\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>NEOWIZ co-CEO Kim Seung-chul, right, poses with Giacomo Montagnoli, developer of FLAT28&#8217;s Glasshouse, which won first place at the NEOWIZ Indie Quest awards, during a ceremony held at NEOWIZ&#8217;s headquarters in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Tuesday. Courtesy of NEOWIZ<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">NEOWIZ said Thursday it awarded five indie game titles at a ceremony for its global game development contest NEOWIZ Indie Quest, held a day earlier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">NEOWIZ Indie Quest is a contest to discover promising indie games and provide developers with practical support. The contest focuses on encouraging developers working on high-quality intellectual property that combines creative world-building with immersive storytelling.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The contest, which ran for about nine months, saw participation by various indie game development teams from Korea, the United States, China and other countries. A total of 165 million won ($112,000) in prize money was awarded to the five winning teams, which will also receive mentoring and strategic consulting without needing to sign a publishing contract with Neowiz.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">The first-place winner was Glasshouse, a narrative-driven, turn-based role-playing game developed by Italy-based company FLAT28. The game&#8217;s psycho-political thriller storyline allows players to shape their in-game experiences through various choices and actions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">Second place was claimed by Inari, developed by Korea\u2019s 1HP Studio, followed by Name of the Will, Hawthorn and Gretel &amp; Hansel, which tied for third.<\/p>\n<p class=\"editor-p\">\u201cBased on our publishing expertise, proven by high-quality indie titles such as SANABI, we seek to provide global creaters with new opportunities,\u201d a NEOWIZ official said. \u201cNEOWIZ will continue to support indie developers worldwide so they can make more creative games.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEOWIZ co-CEO Kim Seung-chul, right, poses with Giacomo Montagnoli, developer of FLAT28&#8217;s Glasshouse, which won first place at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":404670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-404669","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=404669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/404670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}