The SWANA Awards is an International award program that focuses on highlighting developers from underrepresented areas of Southwest Asia and Northern Africa. This area of the world has been hugely under-represented, and in many ways mis-represented, so this is our chance to make a difference. Our program will make it much harder for the international games industry to overlook a region made up of thirty countries and hundreds of millions of people.

Throughout the year, our focus lies in discovering, communicating, and bringing forward developers and studios from the region to the stage of the SWANA Awards, hoping that by celebrating their achievements and giving exposure to their work, we will be helping these studios compete and break through, adding their own voices and colors to the industry.