Megabonk Has Withdrawn From The Game Awards

Nominees for The Game Awards were released yesterday, and there's a full batch of indie excellence connected display. However, 1 notable contender among them has decided to retreat from contention.

The fabulously titled Megabonk received a motion for nan Best Debut Indie Game category. However, nan task creator, who presently goes by vedinad, announced connected X coming that they were withdrawing. "I've made games successful nan past nether different workplace names, truthful Megabonk is not my debut game," nan solo dev said.

The class is benignant of a weird one, since indie creators whitethorn person worked astatine different large aliases mini studios. Even afloat self-taught devs will person made and possibly moreover released respective projects earlier having immoderate benignant of breakthrough occurrence aliases popularity. But if vedinad feels nan crippled doesn't fresh nan category, past it's still a gracious move to front out.

Megabonk follows successful nan caller lineage of Vampire Survivors, a celebrated bullet-hell roguelike that conscionable arrived successful virtual reality. The Megabonk riff takes nan 2D conception into a low-poly 3D and adds immoderate beautiful wacky characters into nan mix. Venidad said nan title sold 1 cardinal copies successful conscionable 2 weeks, making it 1 of nan latest Steam indie sensations to person a large moment.