🎮The theme of this year's contest is "Attention to Detail! Japan Game Awards 2023 "Amateur Division" Honorable Mention, Excellence Award, and Grand Prize!

The " Tokyo Game Show 2023 " (TGS2023) , Japan's largest game festival, opened on September 21, 2023 (Thursday). The first two days of the Business Days were also extremely exciting! Perhaps in response to this, the temperature at the venue was also extremely hot! The TGS is packed with major events, but the one that attracts the most attention is the announcement of the " Japan Game Awards ". On the first day of the event, the "Game of the Year" and "Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Award" were announced, and many masterpieces that colored the past year were awarded, but the Japan Game Awards 2023 is not limited to that! The results of the "Amateur Division" of the Japan Game Awards 2023 have been announced!

The theme is "persistence"! Introducing the finalists!

The Japan Game Awards 2023 "Amateur Division" is a contest for games created by "amateurs" of any age. The "Amateur Division" has a theme for each year's contest, and this year's theme is " Attention to detail! This year's theme will be "Dedication! The theme can be interpreted and handled in any way you like, so it will be interesting to see how you interpret "persistence" in your work. Now, without further ado, let me introduce the 10 finalists for the Japan Game Awards 2023 "Amateur Division" and the award-winning titles! I will now introduce the 10 finalists for the Japan Game Awards 2023 "Amateur Division" and the award-winning titles! They are in alphabetical order of the order in which they were announced at the awards ceremony, but here they are in order of Grand Prize, Excellence Award, Excellence Award, and Honorable Mention!

Grand Prize and Excellence Award

Three seconds before the New Year

School Name	Nippon Kogakuin College
Creator/Production Team	we have a playful spirit
Platform	Personal Computer

Award of Excellence

PanicQ

Name of School	HAL Osaka
Creator/Production Team Name	PicaSoft
Platform	Personal Computer

Kirika Area

Name of School	Nippon Kogakuin College
Name of creator/production team	Animaru Nambaaz
Platform	Personal Computer

Kougo No Toujin

Name of School	HAL Osaka
Creator/Production Team Name	12FPS
Platform	Personal Computer

Screw Dive

Name of School	HAL Osaka
Creator/Production Team Name	Poketto Palette
Platform	Personal Computer

Honorable Mention

Gabarry Travels

Name of School	Nihon Kogakuin College of Technology
Name of creator/production team	3CLUB
Platform	Personal Computer

ComicaRhythm

Name of School	HAL Nagoya
Name of creator/production team	Single winner 1.9 times
Platform	Personal computer

Hanarenka

School Name	HAL Nagoya
Name of creator/production team	Tonchidot☆Tonchidot☆Community Center
Platform	Personal Computer

Haneru Bubble

School Name	Nippon Kogakuin College
Name of creator/production team	Fully Automatic Soap Bubble Splitter
Platform	Personal computer

Let's Parry

School Name	ECC Computer College
Name of creator/production team	Pearly Knights
Platform	Personal Computer

You can play the game at TGS2023!

The grand prize goes to we have Playful Spirit' s " 3 seconds before the New Year "! Congratulations to all the finalists! However, all of the 10 finalists' games are very attractive and "particular, " and many of you may say that it is difficult to choose the best one. As gamers, we are the ones who pay attention to these games, and when we see a game that looks interesting, we want to play it, don't we? Here is good news for all of you! You can try out the games at TGS2023! As announced at the end of the award ceremony, the "Amateur Division" will be succeeded by the NHK Enterprises-sponsored "God Game Creator Evolution" from 2024. In other words, this is the last time the Japan Game Awards 2023 "Amateur Division" will be held! We invite you to try out the finalists' games! For more information on the Japan Game Awards 2023 "Amateur Division," please visit the official website of the Japan Game Awards!