Apple nominates Inkle, Devolver, FuturLab, Toppluva and more in annual design awards

[UPDATE: Apple announced the winners today. Poti Poti Studio’s Is This Seat Taken? took the Delight and Fun award, Pine Hearts won in Inclusivity, Jinja’s Garden scooped the Interaction category and new-to-iOS game Consume Me got the Social Impact award. Mac games Cyberpunk 2077 and Blue Prince won the Visuals and Graphics and Innovation awards respectively.] 

ORIGINAL STORY: Apple has unveiled a long list of Apple Design Awards nominees. The winners will be crowned in the run-up to WWDC, which begins on June 8.

In the Delight and Fun category, FuturLab’s PowerWash Simulator, Poti Poti Studio’s Is This Seat Taken? and Kenny Sun/Devolver title Ball x Pit are in contention.

Sago Mini’s Jinja’s Garden, Hyper Luminal Games’ Pine Hearts and Firaxis Games’ Civilization VII are in the running for the Inclusivity award.

Inkle’s TR-49 is the only iOS title nominated for the Innovation award, with MacOS game Blue Prince (Dogubomb/Raw Fury) and VisionOS title Pickle Pro (Resolution Games) taking up the other two spots.

Toppluva’s Grand Mountain Adventure 2 is nominated in the Interaction category, alongside Inkle’s TR-49 and Sago Mini’s Jinja’s Garden, both of which are nominated for the second time.

Spilled from Sound Games, a game about cleaning up polluted waterways, is the only iOS game that could win the Social Impact award. The other two games in the category, Consume Me (Hexacutable) and Despelote (Panic), are MacOS titles.

Finally, Hypergryph’s Arknights: Endfield and Snapbreak’s Silt are the iOS games in contention for the Visuals and Graphics award, alongside the MacOS edition of Cyberpunk 2077.

WWDC takes place in the week beginning June 8. The Apple Design Award winners will be announced shortly beforehand.