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Freeplay Independent Games Festival: Freeplay Award Winners Announced

Freeplay finished up yesterday, sounding off another successful independent games festival with over 1800 people making it along for the week long event this year for an excellent showcase of local indie games, talks, panels, workshop sessions, and much more.

The finalists and winners for the 2011 Freeplay Awards have also been announced. Director of Freeplay, Paul Callaghan, has had this to say about the Freeplay awards this year...

(Paul Callaghan) The awards reflect both the values of the festival and the wide range of projects being created locally and overseas. We were incredibly impressed with the diversity, experimentation, vision, and creativity of all the entries, and look forward to seeing that continue in 2012.

Congratulations to all involved. The winners and finalists in each category were:

Best Australian Game
Solar 2 – Jay Watts
Antichamber – Alexander Bruce
Rocket Bunnies – Defiant Development

Winner: Antichamber – Alexander Bruce

Best International Game
Kromaia – Kraken Empire
Gemini Rue - Joshua Nuernberger
The Swapper – Facepalm Games

Winner: The Swapper – Facepalm Games

Best Design
Warco – Defiant Development
Antichamber – Alexander Bruce
Solar 2 – Jay Watts

Winner: Antichamber – Alexander Bruce

Best on paper design
The Adventures of MonkeyGuy - Josip Ivancic
The Factory – Ariel Magnes
Dead Eye – Kristian David Terry

Winner: Dead Eye - Kristian David Terry

Best Art
Kingspray – Michael Sharpe
Rocket Bunnies – Defiant Development
Warco – Defiant Development

Winner: Warco – Defiant Development

Best Concept Art
The Adventures of MonkeyGuy – Josip Ivancic
The Factory – Ariel Magnes
Firo – Daniela Hammer

Winner: Firo – Daniela Hammer

Best Technical Innovation
Beat Booster – Current Circus
Kingspray – Michael Sharpe
Antichamber – Alexander Bruce

Winner: Kingspray – Michael Sharpe

Best Game Writing
Warco – Defiant Development
Solar 2 – Jay Watts
MacGuffin’s Curse - Brawsome

Winner: MacGuffin’s Curse - Brawsome

Best Audio
Solar 2 – Jay Watts
Warco – Defiant Development
Battle Group – Bane Games

Winner: Solar 2 – Jay Watts

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 26/08/11 - 4:07 PM Permalink

That would be because there is a much lower participation rate of women in game development.

It's a bit like saying that I'm alarmed that there aren't more male nurses.