What will be true about Animal Well, the first game published by Bigmode, videogamedunkey's company?
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It will be nominated at the Game Developers Choice Awards for Best Debut
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It will win the award for Best Debut at the Game Developers Choice Awards

Animal Well is a game developed by a solo developer, Billy Basso. It is also the first game that YouTuber videogamedunkey or dunkey is publishing with his company, Bigmode.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Well
https://www.animalwell.net/
https://bigmode.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@videogamedunkey

For the questions about Steam best-selling games, we will be referring to the 2024 version of this page for resolution: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/BestOf2023 "At least" bronze means either bronze, silver, gold, or platinum, and "At least" silver means silver, gold, or platinum, etc.

For the Yahtzee Croshaw questions, we will be referring to the 2024 version of this video for resolution when it is published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQXktE2ms9A

Examples of official sources for the sales announcements:
https://twitter.com/BIGMODEgames
https://twitter.com/vgdunkey
https://twitter.com/Billy_Basso
So long as an official source announces a particular number of sales, all answers referencing sales numbers below that number will resolve YES. The announcement itself has to happen before the end of 2024.

Metascore is determined by Metacritic: https://www.metacritic.com/game/

Mighty designation is determined by OpenCritic: https://opencritic.com/

Scores for resolutions will be checked after a week after release.


The Game Awards 2024 is being held on 12 December, 2024: https://thegameawards.com/

Steam concurrent player counts are tracked by Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/charts/mostplayed and recorded by places like Steamcharts: https://steamcharts.com/ and Steamdb: https://steamdb.info/charts/

The Steam Awards are held by Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/steamawards


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bought Ṁ200 Answer #f970e0107e67 NO

@Tripping no ports to Mac or linux

bought Ṁ400 Answer #ed3fa079a1ce NO

@Tripping resolves no

bought Ṁ223 Answer #ZSSPquR88L YES

@Marnix It won the award for solo development

opened a Ṁ100 Answer #932b75b29888 NO at 4% order

@strutheo I played most of it and I don't recall any petting-type gameplay

bought Ṁ20 Answer #b187570fb552 NO

@Tripping Hololive is a specific company, right?

bought Ṁ15 Answer #ZSSPquR88L YES

The Indie Game Awards will be held on December 19th. Animal Well is nominated for Best Debut Indie Game and Game of the Year. https://www.indiegameawards.gg/

bought Ṁ415 Answer #ea060a86ec2c NO

@Tripping Resolves NO, lost Debut Indie which is one of its two categories.

It will be nominated at the Game Developers Choice Awards for Best Debut
bought Ṁ359 It will be nominated... YES

@Tripping This can resolve YES

bought Ṁ675 Answer #99c39a6e6b07 YES

@Tripping Resolves YES, along with of course the it will be nominated for at least one award question. Animal Well was nominated for Best Independent Game and Best Debut Indie Game.

bought Ṁ396 By the end of May, i... NO

NO to 10k reviews by end of may

bought Ṁ210 At the end of May, S... YES

@strutheo also the overwhelming positive review

Its Metascore will be between Halo 2 and Halo 3 (94 or 95)

Just to justify this answer, videogamedunkey has facetiously called Animal Well "a mix between Halo 2 and Halo 3" and his fans have run with it. Its not spam I promise 🙏

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This releases tomorrow! Last minute chance to get your bets in

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