Did you know China has its own Independent Games Festival? Well, it does, and an Aussie-made game took out the top honour.
Captain Forever, a gloriously neon top-down shooter that sees you upgrading your craft through scavenging parts from defeated enemies, won the award for overall best game during the second Game Developers Conference China, announced on Sunday night.
The winner is a local lad called Farbs, whose previous work includes the demented genius of Rom Check Fail.
Also nominated as a finalist was S.H.M.U.P. by fellow Aussie designer, Aaron Styles.
Captain Forever is finished. To find out what the fuss is about, you can buy it now from Farbs‘ website. Watch the clip below to whet your appetite.
First IGF China Awards Topped By Captain Forever [GameSetWatch]
Lance McDonald
October 13, 2009 at 11:04 AM
Way to go, Styles!
Report PermalinkAaron Styles
October 13, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Woo!
Also, congrats to Farbs ;)
I want to play Captain forever now, just to see how good it is. To beat me, is has to be awesome
Report PermalinkAaron Styles
October 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Forgot the (jokes) at the end of the second sentence.
:(
Report PermalinkAlex Webb
October 13, 2009 at 11:57 AM
did you end up contacting the musicians, Aaron? ;)
Report PermalinkAlex Webb
October 13, 2009 at 12:02 PM
herp derp I visited the site, well done.
Report PermalinkAaron Styles
October 13, 2009 at 12:07 PM
One I’ve always been in contact with and the other isn’t answering :(
Report PermalinkAustralian Bushman
October 13, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Hey, Styles! Well done man!
Congrats aussies.
Report PermalinkTrent Petronaitis
October 13, 2009 at 11:30 AM
Wait- this is that game I saw the video for a while ago and thought “wow that looks bloody awesome”- then never followed up on the game. Can we play it? Or what? Whats going to happen to it?
Oh paid only? Disapoiting there isn’t a free-ware version I could dip my hands in for feeling sake. Oh well.
Report Permalinkdave
October 13, 2009 at 11:48 AM
flow with spaceships
Report PermalinkFarbs
October 13, 2009 at 1:25 PM
Trent – Captain Forever will be released free once I finish the first supporter-only followup. It shouldn’t be long now :D
Aaron – It sucks that your visa app fell through – we would’ve shared a booth wall!
Report PermalinkAaron Styles
October 13, 2009 at 8:10 PM
Well, I’m sure there’ll be other competitions that we’ll compete against each other at ;)
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