Lake District disaster epic wins best British game
RebellionA disaster epic set in the rolling hills of the Lake District won the award for best British game at the Bafta Games Awards.
Atomfall, produced by Oxford-based Rebellion, is based on an alternative history of the UK's worst nuclear accident - the 1957 Windscale fire in Cumbria.
It is set in a sci-fi inspired timeline where the area surrounding the plant has become a quarantine zone.
Game designer Ben Fisher told Radio Cumbria that winning the Bafta on Friday night had been "absolutely mind-blowing".
"When you're making a game you've no idea whether people are going to really connect with it or not," he said.
"So it was really satisfying to get that recognition."
Fisher said the team had made sure they did their "homework" before designing the Cumbrian villages in the game.
"It was just great to make sure we kind of captured all those uniquely British, uniquely Cumbric things," he said.
