After 9 years, the 2024 Korea Game Awards 'I'm the Only One Levelling Up: Rise' Grand Prize.

At the "2024 Korea Game Awards," which celebrates the achievements of domestic games this year, the grand prize (Presidential Award) was won by "I'm the Only One Levelling Up," which expanded the intellectual property (IP) of the webtoon "I'm the Only One Levelling Up" into games.Hosted by the

Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and organized by the 'Korea Game Industry Association', the event was held today (13th) on the first floor of BEXCO Exhibition Hall 2 in Busan, and awards were given to a total of 15 categories.

The Indie Game Award was won by "Terminus: Zombie Survivors," a turn-based log-like genre game of "Longplay Studio," a one-man developer, and "CEO Kim Hyung-tae" of "Shift Up," who developed "Stella Blade," won the Outstanding Developer Award.The

Good Game Award was won by Uncover the Smoking Gun, an ai chat-based game from Lelu Games, a studio under Krafton, and the 'Smilegate Holdings Megaport Branch', which is in charge of game publishing and development, won the Best Game Environment Company Award.

'Hanwha Life Esports' received the 'ESports Development Award' in recognition of its continued interest and active activities in esports, and former game product management chairman Kim Kyu-chul received the 'Excellence Award' for his contribution to the game industry over the past three years as the chairman of the game committee.

The grand prize was won by the open world action RPG "Stella Blade" of "Shift Up," and the excellence prize was won by three games: MMORPG "Road Nine" of "Smilegate," "Trick Revive," a collective RPG game of "Effid Games," and "First Descendants," a root shooter genre of "Nexon."

Kwon Young-sik, CEO of Netmarble Neo, who won the grand prize, said in his acceptance speech, "Thank you to 50 million users around the world."The

Korea Game Awards' is held at the opening of the game fair 'G Star' every year and has continued from 1996 to the present.

△ Target = Only I Level Up: Rise

△ Best = Stella Blade

△ Excellence Award = Road Nine, Epic Games 'Trick Revive, First Descendants

△ Excellent Developer Award = Shift-Up Representative Kim Hyung-tae

△ Popular Game Award = Stellar Blade

△ E-Sports Development Award = Hanwha Life e-Sports

△ Indie Game Award = Terminus: Zombie Survivors

△ Achievement Award = Former (former) Chairman of Game Management Kim Kyu-chul

△ Technology Creation Award (Characters, Graphics, Sound, Planning/Scenario) = Stella Blade

△ Startup Company Award = Relu Games

△ Good Game Environment Creation Company Award = Smilegate Holdings Megaport Branch

△ Good Game Award = Uncover the Smoking Gun

Netmarble Neo's "Representative Kwon Youngsik."