Another year of Austin’s annual videogame festival Fantastic Arcade has come to an end, but not without a couple winners, losers (haha!), and pissed-off Norwegians. Seriously, don’t make eye-contact with them. They will mess your sh*t up.
The biggest winner is also the most predictable one: Fez takes home the Audience Choice Award along with a neat Lego statue. Faraway (by Little–Eyes) won the Best in Show award, which would be pretty impressive if I knew anything about the panel of judges.
My game of show? GUN BULLET! Pinballz Arcade were nice enough to bring its cabinet to the show and set it on free-play. I played it obsessively over the past couple days.
Click below for the full list of winners.
- Best in Show: Faraway by Little–Eyes
- Audience Choice Award: Fez by Polytron
- Most Punished for Lack of Ninjas Award:Radical Fishing by Vlambeer
- The Bionic Commando Award for Grappling Hook Excellence Award: Capsized by AlienTrap
- The “You got 2D in my 3D, or maybe 3D in my 2D” Award: Fez by Polytron
- The Mandlebrot Award: Fract by Phosfiend Systems
- The Most Recent Use of Japanese Tradition by Westerners Award: Skulls of the Shogun by Haunted Temple Studios
- The Implied Cephalopod Intercourse Award: Octodad by Team Octodad
- The Teach the Controversy Award: Jesus vs. Dinosaurs by Martin Jonasson, Petri Purho
For those of you foaming at the mouth for some quasi-3D indie-platforming action, word has it that you may have to wait a while longer. Fez is saying, “Screw you” to 2011 and moving to an early 2012 release date. Damn, now we’ll never know if it would have outsold Skyrim!
Once I get done flunking out of college and typing up some film reviews for Flixist — which you better read everyday for awesome movie news — I’ll have the rest of my Fantastic Arcade previews up for you all to read, including a first look at Serious Sam: The Random Encounter and what may be Pixeljunk’s finest game yet (hint: It’s not 4am).
