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Winners From The Independent Games Festival In China Announced

Nov 13 2011 08:00 AM | Events For Gamers in GDC Online

The winners from an indie games fest held in Shanghai have been announced. The prizes ranged from $450 to $3060 and were awarded to the following games:

Best Game: Pixel May Cry by Feng Li ― a pixelly 2D hack'n'slash for the PC. There's a video here but I can't find anywhere that the game itself is available yet.

Best Mobile Game: The Line HD by Ant Hive Games ― an action puzzle game in which you draw and erase lines in order to help a dude escape increasingly complex environments. I'd quite like to play it on PC, but it's stuck in App Store land.

Excellence In Technology: Void by Digipen in Singapore ― a first person game involving time-skipping and hopping between two worlds in order to solve problems and, apparently, fix your wrongs. What did you do? You can download it here.

Excellence In Audio: Super Sheep Tap ― video here, another App Store dweller. Sometimes sheep can go wild.

Excellence In Visual Arts: Pocket Warriors ― App Store game with a video; slaying monsters and dragons in cutesville. It looks pretty slow-paced.

Best Student Game: the aforementioned Void by Digipen in Singapore.

Excellent Student Winners:

Pixi by Digipen in Singapore ― a (downloadable) game in which you guide a ball of light (Pixi) over arrows that you can vary the direction of with your mouse in order to defeat the enemy (Boxi).

Robotany by Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab ― playable in your browser here, it's essentially an experiment in letting its players make AI. Robots are standing in a garden waiting for you to give them instructions in order that they can set to tending it themselves. There's a nice article about it over at MIT News.

More information about the competition and cash prize amounts can be found at Gamasutra.