RAINDANCE IMMERSIVE award winners

This year’s Raindance Immersive comprised immersive VR worlds, experiences, games and live performances competing for ten jury awards, as well as the Spirit of Raindance Award which is selected by the festival team. For the fifth year, Raindance celebrates the creators who are pushing the artistic boundaries of the medium of XR, enhancing the art of storytelling in bold and daring ways. These awards celebrate the creativity, ingenuity, and artistry expressed in immersive storytelling, world building and games over the last year. The 2020 Raindance Immersive award winners were announced at three separate award ceremonies, hosted at the virtual Raindance Embassy in VRChat in the presence of nominees and jurors from around the world.

BEST NARRATIVE EXPERIENCE

• WINNER 🏆 The Under Presents: Tempest

• Amends

• Baba Yaga

• Paper Birds

• Quanero 2 - System Release

• Visitors

BEST DOCUMENTARY EXPERIENCE

• WINNER 🏆 Fly

• Another Dream

• Hush

• Il Dubbio - Episode 1

• Mona Lisa: Beyond The Glass

• The Dawn of Art

BEST ANIMATION EXPERIENCE

• WINNER 🏆 Paper Birds

• Baba Yaga

• Down The Rabbit Hole

• Hush

• Legends of the Brush: The Girl and the Crane

• Maranga

BEST IMMERSIVE WORLD

• WINNER 🏆 The Devouring

• HONOURABLE MENTION ✨ Maranga

• Eden

• Lost Worlds - Pandora Night

• Shelter in Place

• Skin of Earth

• Terminus

BEST MULTIPLAYER EXPERIENCE

• WINNER 🏆 Dr. Crumb's School For Disobedient Pets

• HONOURABLE MENTION ✨ The Devouring

• HONOURABLE MENTION ✨ The Under Presents: Tempest

• Maranga

• Scarecrow VRC

• Spaceteam VR

BEST IMMERSIVE GAME

• WINNER 🏆 The Devouring

• Down The Rabbit Hole

• Dr. Crumb's School For Disobedient Pets

• Paper Beast

• Spaceteam VR

• Ven VR Adventure

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN ART

• WINNER 🏆 Paper Beast

• HONOURABLE MENTION ✨ Maranga

• Down The Rabbit Hole

• Legends of the Brush: The Girl and the Crane

• Paper Birds

• Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN AUDIO 

• WINNER 🏆 Paper Beast

• Paper Birds

• Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia

• Star Shaman

• The Devouring

• Visitors

OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN DESIGN

• WINNER 🏆 Dr. Crumb's School For Disobedient Pets

• HONOURABLE MENTION ✨ The Under Presents: Tempest

• Paper Beast

• Spaceteam VR

• The Devouring

• Ven VR Adventure

DISCOVERY AWARD: BEST DEBUT

• WINNER 🏆 Rinlo

• All Hail the Cook-o-tron

• DeMagnete VR

• Rhythm of the Universe: Ionia

• Star Shaman

• Ven VR Adventure

SPIRIT OF RAINDANCE AWARD

The award recognises outstanding achievement for an independent XR production, and a pioneering ‘punk spirit’.

• WINNER 🏆 Scarecrow

• HONOURABLE MENTION ✨ VRChat Creator Community

Raindance gives further recognition in honour of all those who are creative and productive members of the VRChat Community. VRChat currently features over 25,000 Community Created Worlds, providing opportunities to interact with people all over the world, and to experiment with identity by trying new avatars – hence many users report that VRChat has helped overcome social anxiety. Collectively, the VRChat Community embodies the vision, the ethos, and the spirit of Raindance, hence they are worthy of an Honourable Mention.

A special thank you to our Jury:

Aleissia Laidacker, Ana Ribeiro, Andreas Juliusson, Dan Tucker, Eliza McNitt, Ingrid Kopp, Ioulia Isserlis, Jamie Feltham, Joe Hunting, Katie Goode, Katie Grayson, Kiira Benzing, Kent Bye, Liz Rosenthal, Loren Hammonds, Marinda Botha, Mark Atkin, Michel Reilhac, Mike Salmon, Mike VR Oasis, Myriam Achard, Nimrod Shanit, Peter Graham, Rafael Pavon, Ricardo Laganaro, Russ Harding, Sylvia Pan and Viktor Phoenix.