A video-game from Serbia Let Be Bygones won two prestigious European awards

CEEGA (Central & Eastern European Game Awards) is the most important award for game developers in Central and Eastern Europe, and it aims to point out how this is a large, important and highly creative but often underestimated part of the global gaming industry, which counts more than 1,000 studios and brings together almost 30,000 gaming experts. Since 2018, this award has been given every autumn in Poznań for games published by studios in the CEE region during the current year.

This year, 84 games from 15 countries applied for the competition, and the jury decided which ones to nominate and who are the winners. Among them were two Serbian studios – Belgrade’s Demagog Studio with their game The Cub and Bohemian Pulp with Let Byons Be Bygones. The studio from Novi Sad was nominated in the categories Best Game, Visual Art, Technology, Audio and Narrative, and they won the award for Visual Art and Narrative.

These are not the first awards that this pixel-art point-and-click adventure has won. At the WN Dev Contest Belgrade ’23 they were awarded the Grand Prix and Best Art, and this year they are also participating in Indie X (November 7) and DevGAMM in Lisbon (November 14 and 15), so the results are still awaited.

Đorđe Marković, the Founder of Bohemian Pulp, comments the impressions of the first awards in 2024 as follows:

“It means a lot to us that, in addition to other, much larger projects, we managed to receive these awards. This tells us that we are on the right track. Unfortunately, the game had a bad launch, so any recognition means a lot to us. Awards raise a sense of quality and help with legitimacy in negotiations for funds and publishers. They also give us a boost on social media. But we haven’t seen a direct impact on sales yet.”

We just have to wait a little longer and possibly rejoice because of another award with Bohemian Pulp soon!