Konjinwon, 'Game Level Up Showcase' Modle Studios 3rd Place Winner

The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and the Korea Creative Content Agency held the '2024 Game Level Up Showcase (GLS 2024)' from the 4th to the 6th at SJ Kunsthalle in Gangnam-gu, Seoul. GLS 2024, now in its third year, was established as a KOCCA game planning support project to promote excellent indie games and to present and evaluate new indie games from the startup and prospective startup sectors.

This year, a total of 26 games participated, including 11 games in the Startup-Corporation category, 5 games in the Startup-Individual category, and 10 games in the Pre-Startup category.

This event, attended by a total of 500 people including the general public, user evaluation groups, publishers, investors, and the press, provided business opportunities such as open pitching and meetups along with free indie game experience and indie game user evaluation.

At the GLS Excellent Game Awards Ceremony, which marked the end of GLS 2024, a total of 5 excellent games were selected by category by combining the user evaluation and public pitching evaluation scores in conjunction with the evaluation of the 2024 game planning support project implementation results. The Startup-Corporate category went to Studio Dudal (1st place), Odyssey (2nd place), and Modle Studios (3rd place), the Startup-Individual category went to Gino Games (1st place), and the Preliminary Startup category went to White Kite (1st place).

Yoo Hyun-seok, acting director of KOGAS, said, “Through this event, we were able to confirm the originality and excellent development capabilities of K-Indie games,” and added, “We will continue to spare no support so that the ideas and passion of indie game developers can lead to actual development and commercialization, and so that they can become the future growth engine of the domestic game industry.”