{"id":187865,"date":"2025-11-18T22:10:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/187865\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T22:10:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T22:10:10","slug":"megabonk-has-withdrawn-from-the-game-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/187865\/","title":{"rendered":"Megabonk has withdrawn from The Game Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Nominees for The Game Awards were <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/gaming\/the-game-awards-2025-nominees-include-clair-obscur-hollow-knight-silksong-and-hades-2-173626649.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:released;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">released<\/a> yesterday, and there&#8217;s a whole lot of indie excellence on display. However, one notable contender among them has decided to withdraw from contention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The fabulously titled Megabonk received a nod for the Best Debut Indie Game category. However, the project creator, who currently goes by vedinad, announced on X today that they were withdrawing. &#8220;I&#8217;ve made games in the past under different studio names, so Megabonk is not my debut game,&#8221; the solo dev <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MegabonkGame\/status\/1990856468615061603\" data-i13n=\"cpos:2;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:said;cpos:2;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">The category is kind of a weird one, since indie creators may have worked at other big or small studios. Even fully self-taught devs will have made and maybe even released several projects before having any kind of breakthrough success or popularity. But if vedinad feels the game doesn&#8217;t fit the category, then it&#8217;s still a gracious move to bow out.<\/p>\n<p class=\"col-body mb-4 leading-7 text-[18px] md:leading-8 break-words min-w-0 charcoal-color\">Megabonk follows in the recent lineage of Vampire Survivors, a popular bullet-hell roguelike that just arrived in <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.engadget.com\/ar-vr\/vampire-survivors-vr-asks-what-if-the-bullet-hell-was-on-your-face-190749256.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:3;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:virtual reality;cpos:3;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">virtual reality<\/a>. The Megabonk riff takes the 2D concept into a low-poly 3D and adds some pretty wacky characters into the mix. Venidad said the title sold <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MegabonkGame\/status\/1973773917040111965\" data-i13n=\"cpos:4;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:1 million copies;cpos:4;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">1 million copies<\/a> in just two weeks, making it one of the latest Steam indie sensations to have a big moment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nominees for The Game Awards were released yesterday, and there&#8217;s a whole lot of indie excellence on display.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,71102,17,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-187865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-indie-game","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115572993159720239","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}