Tender Claws

tenderclaws.com

• Factsheet
• Description
• History
• Projects
• Videos
• Logo & Icon
• Awards & Recognition
• Selected Articles
• Contact

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Videos

Virtual Virtual Reality 2 YouTube

Tempest YouTube

The Under Presents YouTube

Tendar YouTube

Virtual Virtual Reality YouTube

Pry Vimeo

Tumball Vimeo

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Logo & Icon

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Awards & Recognition

• Cannes Film Festival XR, “Cannes XR x VeeR Future Award,” Official Selection - (VVR2, 2022)
• Producers Guild of America, “Innovation Award,” Finalist - (Under, 2021)
• Independent Games Festival (IGF), “IGF Nuovo Award,” Honorable Mention - (Under, 2021)
• A MAZE Awards, “Human Machine Award,” Finalist - (Tempest, 2021)
• D.I.C.E. Awards, “Immersive Reality Technical Achievement,” Finalist - (Tempest, 2021)
• Emmy Awards, “Outstanding Innovation in Interactive Media,” Finalist - (Under, 2020)
• SXSW Festival, “Innovation Awards,” Finalist - (Under, 2020)
• SXSW Festival, “XR Game of the Year,” Finalist - (Under, 2020)
• VR Awards, “VR Experience of the Year,” Winner - (Under 2020)
• A MAZE Awards, “Most Amazing Award,” Finalist - (Under, 2020)
• IndieCade, “Spotlight in Performance Award,” Finalist - (Under, 2020)
• Unity Awards 2020, “Best VR Game,” Finalist - (Under 2020)
• Raindance Film Festival, “Best Narrative Experience,” Winner - (Tempest 2020)
• Raindance Film Festival, “VR Experience of the Year,” Winner - (Tempest 2020)
• Raindance Film Festival, “Achievement in Design,” Honorable Mention - (Tempest 2020)
• NoProscenium Awards, “Achievement in Live VR Production,” Winner - (Tempest, 2020)
• NoProscenium Awards, “Audience Choice,” Winner - (Tempest, 2020)
• Game Developer’s Choice Awards, “Best VR/AR Game,” Honorable Mention - (Tendar, 2019)
• Independent Games Festival, “Seumas McNally Grand Prize,” Honorable Mention - (VVR, 2019)
• IndieCade, “Official Nominee” - (Under, 2019)
• IndieCade, “Innovation in Interaction,” Winner - (Tendar, 2018)
• Sundance New Frontier, Official Selection - (Tendar, 2018)
• IDFA Doc Lab, Official Selection - (Tendar, 2018)
• International Mobile Gaming Awards, “Best VR Game,” Winner - (VVR, 2018)
• Google Play Awards, “Best VR Experience,” Winner - (VVR, 2017)
• Unity Awards 2017, “Best VR Game,” Finalist - (VVR, 2017)
• The VR Awards, “VR Game of the Year,” Finalist - (VVR, 2017)
• Vision VR/AR Awards, “Best Game,” Finalist - (VVR, 2017)
• IndieCade, “Official Nominee” - (VVR, 2017)
• Raindance Film Festival, “Best Mobile Interactive Experience),” Winner - (VVR, 2017)
• The Future of Storytelling Awards, Finalist - (VVR, 2017)
• Independent Games Festival (IGF), “Excellence in Narrative,” Finalist - (Pry, 2015)
• Apple App Store Editors, “Apple’s Best Apps of 2015” - (Pry, 2015)
• Slamdance Film Festival Official Selection - (Pry, 2015)
• Future of Storytelling Prize, Finalist - (Pry, 2014)
• Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans, Official Selection - (Pry, 2014)
• Word Play Festival of Writerly Games, Official Selection - (Pry, 2014)

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Selected Articles

• "This isn’t the empty space of a black box theater, but the fabric of dreams made digital flesh."
  - Noah J Nelson, NoProscenium
• "[I]n true Tender Claws fashion, it is unlike anything else in virtual reality right now,"
  - Ian Hamilton, UploadVR
• "This might be one of the most approachable pieces of theatre for the masses I’ve ever encountered"
  - Alex Coulombe, Medium
• "A VR Game That Laughs In The Face of VR,"
  - Cecilia D’Anastasio, Kotaku
• "the new VR game from Tender Claws is both a love letter and a parody of contemporary virtual reality culture."
  - J.H. Fearless, Vice
• "Equal parts trippy and humorous."
  - Sam Machkovech, Ars Technica
• "An absurdist black comedy [...] that plays with ideas of tourism, travel and authority."
  - Laura Parker, The New York Times
• "All is not what it seems in this darkly comic and visually stunning outing."
  - Matthew Field, The Telegraph
• "How do you put a score on something as brilliantly bizarre as this surrealist story of VR gone too far?"
  - Jamie Feltham, UploadVR

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