The annual Apple Design Awards celebrate the best innovations and technical achievements seen in games and applications created for iOS and Mac devices around the world. Held every year during
Update: The winners of the 2022 Apple Design Awards have been announced, with Wylde Flowers taking out the award for Inclusivity. See all the winners. The original article follows.
Taking inspiration from games like Harvest Moon and Stardew Valley, Wylde Flowers casts you as a young witch who’s been charged with looking after her family farm. However, the game also wields its lighthearted theme to explore themes of prejudice and empowerment.
Because of this, Wylde Flowers has been nominated for the
Gibbon: Beyond the Trees was also nominated for two categories: Social Impact and Interaction.
Read: How Wylde Flowers incorporates escape and empowerment
Other games nominated for the 2022
The 2021 Apple Design Awards saw
The winners of the 2022
Apple Design Awards 2022 – All The Finalists
Inclusivity
- Letter Rooms / Klemens Strasser
- Navi / Good Snooze
- Noted. / Digital Workroom Ltd
- Procreate / Savage Interactive Pty Ltd
- tint. / Lykkegaard Europe Limited
- Wylde Flowers / Studio Drydock Pty Ltd
Delight and Fun
- Chineasy / Chineasy
- Moncage / Optillusion
- (Not Boring) Habits / Andy Works LLC
- Overboard! / inkle
- Please, Touch The Artwork / Studio Waterzooi
- Waterllama / Vitalii Mogylevets
Interaction
- A Musical Story / Glee-Cheese Studio
- Gibbon: Beyond The Trees / Broken Rules
- Slopes / Breakpoint Studio LLC
- Transit / Transit, Inc.
- Vectornator: Vector Design / Linearity GmbH
- What Remains of Edith Finch / Giant Sparrow
Social impact
- Active Arcade / Nex
- Empathy / The Empathy Project
- Gibbon: Beyond The Trees / Broken Rules
- Headspace / Headspace Health
- Rebel Girls / Rebel Girls Inc.
- Wylde Flowers / Studio Drydock Pty Ltd
Visuals and Graphics
- Alien Isolation / Feral Interactive
- Behind the Frame / Silver Lining Studio under Akatsuki Taiwan
- Halide Mark II / Lux Optics
- LEGO Star Wars: Castaways / Gameloft
- MD Clock / Hangzhou Midi Technology Co., Ltd
- (Not Boring) Habits / Andy Works LLC
Innovation
- Active Arcade / Nex
- Focus Noodles / ideaTiny Co., Ltd
- MARVEL Future Revolution / Netmarble Corp.
- Odio / Volst
- Procreate / Savage Interactive Pty Ltd
- Townscaper / Oskar Stalberg