Kristal Piksel 2024: 71 Games, One Night, New Standard
Setimedia produced the 2024 Kristal Piksel ceremony. A record 71 games applied. New Cycle by Core Engage won Game of the Year. Free to attend, broadcast live, hosted by Talha Aynaci and Dost Kayaoglu.
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Seventy-one games applied to Kristal Piksel 2024. That number tells you more about where Turkish game development stands than any industry report could.
The restructured ceremony ran on May 16, 2024, free to attend and open to anyone. Talha Aynaci and Dost Kayaoglu hosted, and their chemistry was genuine enough that the pacing held across the full programme. Anyone who has sat through a live awards show with this many categories knows that's not a given.
Setimedia organised and produced the event from the ground up. That meant shaping the public identity of the new format months before the night itself, coordinating with developers and press, managing the announcement schedule, and giving media early access to the materials they needed to cover it properly. On the night, we ran the live programme, managed every transition, and made sure creators and outlets present had what they needed. The clips and posts that spread over the following days came partly from what we captured and distributed in real time.
The winners covered the full range of what Turkish game development looks like right now. New Cycle by Core Engage took both Best PC Game and Game of the Year. Stratera Games won Best Game Design for Cardboard Town and Best Visual Art for Havsala: Into the Soul Palace. Phew Phew Games took Best Audio Art and Best Console Game for Anomaly Agent. Cats and the Other Lives by Cultic Games won Best Narrative. Remoob picked up Innovative Game Idea with Pile Up! and also took home Promising Studio. Mindlabor's Quadrata won Best Mobile. DBK Games received the Jury Special Award for SpaceBourne 2.
The full ceremony is on YouTube. The next edition will need a bigger room.
