BBC Newsbeat<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Astro Bot has swept this year’s Bafta Games Awards, winning five awards in total – including the top prize of best game. <\/p>\n The 3D platformer, starring the PlayStation mascot character, also won best animation, audio achievement, family game and game design.<\/p>\n Its director Nicolas Doucet dedicated the best game gong to developers who had “inspired others to join the industry”.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Still Wakes the Deep – a horror game set on a Scottish oil rig in the 1970s – took home three of the night’s trophies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n It was a strong evening overall for Sony as its other big 2024 hit, Helldivers 2, picked up two awards for best multiplayer and music.<\/p>\n The squad-based shooter was a surprise hit when it was released, and its makers had to race to boost server capacity to meet early demand. <\/p>\n Accepting the multiplayer award, Johan Pilestedt, chief creative officer at developer Arrowhead, said players had reached out to him to say Helldivers 2 had reconnected them with gamer friends from 10 to 15 years ago. <\/p>\n “That’s such an honour,” he told the audience at Queen Elizabeth Hall on London’s South Bank.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Thank Goodness You’re Here! – a comedy cartoon game made by two friends from Yorkshire – won the award for best British game.<\/p>\n It is set in the fictional northern town of Barnsworth, heavily inspired by developers Will Todd and James Carbutt’s home town of Barnsley in South Yorkshire.<\/p>\n The quirky title features voice performances from the pair, as well as actor Matt Berry.<\/p>\n Accepting the prize, the two friends said: “We hope this inspires you to tell your own story in your own voice without compromise.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Bafta Games Awards, which launched 21 years ago, have earned a reputation for causing major upsets.<\/p>\n In 2023, Vampire Survivors, a game made by a tiny British team, beat Sony’s big-budget blockbuster God of War: Ragnarok to bag the best game prize.<\/p>\n Many had tipped Balatro – the poker-inspired card game made by an anonymous, lone developer known as LocalThunk – to pip Astro Bot to the award this year.<\/p>\n It did, however, win best debut.<\/p>\n Actor Ben Starr, accepting the award on the developer’s behalf, approached the stage in make-up and a jester’s hat – an outfit inspired by the game’s character Jimbo.<\/p>\n In the speech, he joked that developer LocalThunk was “really rich now” and urged the audience to “play more independent games… they are the lifeblood of this industry”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Legendary composer Yoko Shimomura accepted the Bafta fellowship in recognition of her contribution to gaming.<\/p>\n Perhaps best known for her work on the Kingdom Hearts series, from Japanese publisher Square Enix, she recalled how she had “felt like giving up” on her work many times.<\/p>\n “The fact I am standing here at all is no thanks to my own efforts, but to the people who have supported me,” she said in her acceptance speech.<\/p>\n “I feel if the music I have made has resonated with one person and touched their hearts in one way, it was worth it.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Still Wakes the Deep swept the lead and supporting performance categories, and was also named best new intellectual property.<\/p>\n Actor Abubakar Salim, known for performances in Assassin’s Creed and HBO’s House of the Dragon, gave an emotional speech as he collected the games beyond entertainment award.<\/p>\n A keen gamer, he set up his own development company and its debut release, Tales of Kenzera: Zau, was inspired by the grief he felt at the loss of his father.<\/p>\n Meanwhile, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II, which went into the ceremony with 11 nominations, went home with just one award: technical achievement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Animation: <\/b>Astro Bot<\/p>\n Artistic achievement:<\/b> Neva<\/p>\n Audio achievement: <\/b>Astro Bot<\/p>\n Bafta fellowship:<\/b> Yoko Shimomura (composer)<\/p>\n Best game:<\/b> Astro Bot<\/p>\n British Game:<\/b> Thank Goodness You’re Here!<\/p>\n Debut game: <\/b>Balatro<\/p>\n Evolving game:<\/b> Vampire Survivors<\/p>\n Family game: <\/b>Astro Bot<\/p>\n Game beyond entertainment:<\/b> Tales of Kenzera: ZAU<\/p>\n Game design:<\/b> Astro Bot<\/p>\n Multiplayer:<\/b> Helldivers 2<\/p>\n Music: <\/b>Helldivers 2<\/p>\n Narrative: <\/b>Metaphor: ReFantazio<\/p>\n New intellectual property: <\/b>Still Wakes the Deep<\/p>\n Leading performance: <\/b>Alec Newman as Caz in Still Wakes the Deep<\/p>\n Best supporting actor: <\/b>Karen Dunbar as Finlay in Still Wakes the Deep<\/p>\n Technical achievement: <\/b>Senua’s Saga: Hellblade II<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n![\"Sony](\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/480\/cpsprodpb\/b65d\/live\/24c91450-14b1-11f0-8a1e-3ff815141b98.png.webp\")
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