TIGA, the trade association representing the video games industry, has announced Lockwood Publishing as a Gold Sponsor of the TIGA Games Industry Awards 2021.
Founded in 2009, Lockwood Publishing is a leading independent UK company that specialises in developing virtual worlds for mobile platforms. The award-winning team is headquartered in Nottingham with further studios in Newcastle, Lisbon and Vilnius.
Avakin Life is a social 3D avatar based mobile metaverse launched in 2013. In 2020, it welcomed its 200 millionth registered user, and won a third TIGA Game of the Year award in-a-row. Avakin Life’s global community consists of 1.3 million daily active users, who design their avatars using more than 30,000 virtual items and accessories, including real world brands. In Avakin Life, players become avatars that explore, create and meet others in a rich and ever-changing virtual world.
Dr Richard Wilson OBE, TIGA CEO, said: “TIGA is extremely grateful to leading, award winning, independent developer Lockwood Publishing, for their enthusiastic support of TIGA and kindly sponsoring the TIGA UK Games Industry Awards 2021.”
About TIGA:
TIGA is the trade association for the UK video games industry. Our vision is to make the UK the best place in the world to develop video games. Our core purpose is to strengthen the games development and digital publishing sector. To this end, we focus on four strategic objectives:
- influencing Government policy via effective political representation;
- raising the profile of our industry to influence public policy;
- enhancing education and skills through our accreditation programme (https://tiga.org/education/tiga-university-accreditation) and the TIGA Games Education Awards (https://tiga.org/education-awards); and
- promoting best practice through our membership services, including the TIGA STAR Employer Award (https://tiga.org/star) and the TIGA Games Industry Awards (https://tiga.org/awards).