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The jury of the second VIGMA announced
The 33 critics and journalists on the jury of the second Video Game Critics Festival have been announced.
The jury of the second VIGMA has been announced. The jury is one of the most important structures of any festival, and the process of selecting the VIGMA 2021 jury and judging the entries has already been explained in detail so that it is fully transparent.
Like many respected festivals around the world, VIGMA brings together critics and experts in video games to judge every entry and choose the best titles among them. The full list of the jury of the second VIGMA:
- Kasra Karimi Tar
- Taha Rasuli
- Amir Golkhani
- Danial Nowroozi
- Mohammad Talebian
- Omid Sedigh Imani
- Mohammadreza Rad
- Sepehr Torabi
- Shayan Karami
- Seyed Mojtaba Mahmoudi
- Arash Hakimi
- Ashkan Alikhani
- Masoud Teymouri
- Arash Parsapour
- Tarokh Tarhandeh
- Navid Gholami
- Pedram Bahadori
- Meysam Khalilzadeh
- Erfan Khorsand
- Shayan Ziaei
- Amin Beygzadeh
- Sadegh Tavazoei
- Mohammad Amin Behtouei
- Ghazal Mir
- Nima Farshin
- Seyed Abolfazl Sherafat
- Mohammad Javad Mohseni
- Mehdi Haftehkhanak
- Aydin Nouri
- Mohammad Mehdi Mesri
- Arsalan Khodi
- Navid Ghaderi
- Behzad Shabani
This edition set out to grow the number of jurors and critics so that the jury includes most of the people active in the field. Every VIGMA 2021 juror has signed the VIGMA manifesto and committed to follow all of its clauses at every stage of judging.
Under the VIGMA 2021 call for entries, the submission deadline is 15 Khordad 1400 (5 June 2021), and game developers can send their games to the festival secretariat until then, following the call.
As in the first edition, the main festival has eight awards:
- Game of the Year
- Best Ongoing Game
- Best Game Design
- Best Story and Narrative
- Best Art Direction
- Best Music and Sound
- Most Creative Game
- Most Anticipated Game
Games that took part in the previous VIGMA can compete for Best Ongoing Game if they have received several updates in the past year.
The VIGMA 2021 event is scheduled for Friday 15 Mordad 1400 (6 August 2021). Everything about the first edition, including its nominees, winners and speakers, is archived on the VIGMA 2020 pages.