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
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:04 AMWay to go, Styles!
Aaron Styles
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:21 AMWoo!
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
Aaron Styles
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:30 AMForgot the (jokes) at the end of the second sentence.
:(
Alex Webb
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:57 AMdid you end up contacting the musicians, Aaron? ;)
Alex Webb
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 12:02 PMherp derp I visited the site, well done.
Aaron Styles
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 12:07 PMOne I’ve always been in contact with and the other isn’t answering :(
Australian Bushman
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 12:36 PMHey, Styles! Well done man!
Congrats aussies.
Trent Petronaitis
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:30 AMWait- 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.
dave
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 11:48 AMflow with spaceships
Farbs
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 1:25 PMTrent – 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!
Aaron Styles
Tuesday, October 13, 2009 at 8:10 PMWell, I’m sure there’ll be other competitions that we’ll compete against each other at ;)