Utah Game Developers Choice Awards 2025

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vazor

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Nov 20, 2025, 10:35:05 PM11/20/25
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It's time once again for our annual end of year event where we celebrate the work done by local game developers in the past year!

When: Dec 11th, Thursday, 7:30pm-9:30pm


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A huge thank you to Neumont for sponsoring the venue once again!

Where: Neumont College
143 S Main St, Salt Lake City, UT 84111

It's downtown SLC so there is parking on the street or at a parking lot nearby or you may prefer to take public transit.

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A huge thank you to Kelsam Games for sponsoring the physical awards once again this year! 

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Nominees

Artistic Achievement

Airlock Arena: Profit or Perish
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1111920/Airlock_Arena_Profit_or_Perish/

Aldoria
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3146930/Aldoria/

Loop Climber
https://yangu314.itch.io/loop-climber

Back-Talk
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/back-talk/id6743349043


Pushing Boundaries

ToggleBot
https://play.date/games/togglebot/


Jon Clark
Access Software, IndieBuilt, Contractor, Associate Professor Emeritus



RSVP: Email vazo...@gmail.com with your party size and whether you or your group would be interested in going to an after party!

Further announcements will be sent out here.
Special thanks to all our volunteers and presenters!
If you'd like to volunteer for this or future chapter events, email vazo...@gmail.com for more information!
If you know someone in news media who would like to cover the event, please let them know!

We hope to see you there!

vazor

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Dec 4, 2025, 2:12:35 PM12/4/25
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Updates! 

We are one week away! Please RSVP (email me at vazo...@protonmail.com) with your headcounts for both the main event and for the afterparty so we know how much food to plan there. 

Dress Code: People usually dress up nicer for this event; plan on Business or Business Casual dress. 

Neumont is near a TRAX station for those using public transit. 
Parking: City Creek is the most convenient parking, but you can try for the Regent Street Parking garage or street parking as well. 
Be prepared to check in with security. We will be in the big space just behind the security desk. 

The official afterparty will be at Make Salt Lake 10pm-midnight! 



963 W Folsom Ave,

Salt Lake City 84104


Street Parking on W Folsom Ave (in front of the building) and on 1000 W


There will be food, music, and local game devs set up with games to play and check out together! 

Thank you to Make Salt Lake for the help sponsoring the food and the space for the afterparty! 

Thank you to Kogoy Games for sponsoring the certificates once again!  

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vazor

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Dec 4, 2025, 8:46:45 PM12/4/25
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Resending to try to fix the images and cut-off text.

Also NOTE the Make Salt Lake location we'll be at is new (and has an old sign from the previous company) and just entering "Make Salt Lake" into your GPS will likely take you to their old location. Use the address below to find it!

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Updates! 

We are one week away! Please RSVP (email me at vazo...@protonmail.com) with your headcounts for both the main event and for the afterparty so we know how much food to plan there. 

Dress Code: People usually dress up nicer for this event; plan on Business or Business Casual dress. 

Neumont is near a TRAX station for those using public transit. 
Parking: City Creek is the most convenient parking, but you can try for the Regent Street Parking garage or street parking as well. 
Be prepared to check in with security. We will be in the big space just behind the security desk. 

The official afterparty will be at Make Salt Lake's new Folsom Ave location from 10pm-midnight! 

MakeSaltLakeNewLocation.png


963 W Folsom Ave,

Salt Lake City 84104


Street Parking on W Folsom Ave (in front of the building) and on 1000 W


There will be food, music, and local game devs set up with games to play and check out together! 

Thank you to Make Salt Lake for the help sponsoring the food and the space for the afterparty! 
MakeSaltLakeLogo.jpg

Thank you to Kogoy Games for sponsoring the certificates once again!  

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On Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 12:12:35 PM UTC-7 vazor wrote:
Updates! 

We are one week away! Please RSVP with your headcounts for both the main event and for the afterparty so we know how much food to plan there. 

Dress Code: People usually dress up nicer for this event; plan on Business or Business Casual dress. 

Neumont is near a TRAX station for those using public transit. 
Parking: City Creek is the most convenient parking, but you can try for the Regent Street Parking garage or street parking as well. 
Be prepared to check in with security. We will be in the big space just behind the security desk. 

The official afterparty will be at Make Salt Lake 10pm-midnight! 

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vazor

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Dec 10, 2025, 12:35:03 PM12/10/25
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A couple of last minute updates:

Make Salt Lake had to change the afterparty location to the Utah Arts Hub (the place that comes up now on GPS when you enter Make Salt Lake) in their upstairs ballroom. More details on parking, etc. to be posted soon. 

Also, there is a newer Junk-O-Tron trailer the developer would prefer us to share instead if you're sharing the nominees! 

vazor

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Dec 10, 2025, 3:09:09 PM12/10/25
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Here are the details about the new afterparty location!

663 W 100 S,
Salt Lake City 84104

Street Parking on 100 S

(in front of the building)




To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/igda_utah/72d7d283-4010-4ab8-a147-2b40e4f3f054n%40googlegroups.com.

vazor

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Dec 11, 2025, 9:46:58 PM12/11/25
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Apparently City Creek parking is full. Eccles Theater or Salt Palace or Regent Street Garage might have spaces still! 

vazor

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Dec 15, 2025, 11:14:21 PM12/15/25
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Thank you to everyone that helped out and showed up for the awards last week!

Winners

Artistic Achievement
Airlock Arena: Profit or Perish
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1111920/Airlock_Arena_Profit_or_Perish/

Pushing Boundaries
Junk-o-Tron
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2514390/JunkoTron/

Game of the Year

Lifetime Achievement
Jon Clark
Access Software, IndieBuilt, Contractor, Associate Professor Emeritus



The livestream can be found here:

The full event report on igda.org  with photos can be found here!


Feel free to share around!
For those interested in volunteering, please watch this mailing list for future announcements and plan to attend our annual business and planning meeting on the evening of Jan 8th!
Our next big event will be Global Game Jam at the Christa McAuliffe Space Center in Pleasant Grove, on the weekend of Jan 31st!

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