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15 December 09

Pillaged!!

Well done to the Pillager team from AIE Melbourne, who won Best Graphics for the Games Connect: Asia Pacific (GCAP) Independent Games Awards.

Check out the ‘oil painting come to life’ in the trailer below.  Whilst the entire team is to be congratulated, the unique look of the game is thanks to the shaders created by 2009 Programming graduate Joshua Boggs.

Programmers:
Scott Boal, Joshua Boggs, Ben Warwick, Michael Delos & Kynan Ward

Artists:
Obe Bradford, Fred Ho, Joshua Semple, Jarrod Cugley, Darron Lumley, Christian Pillirone, Luke Walker, Anthony Hadwen, Brett Walton & Daniel Drechsel

The award was announced at GCAP’s Annual dinner at Crown Towers at the start of the month.  Winners in the GDAA Independent Games Awards were:

Best Graphics
Pillager - AIE Melbourne

Best Gameplay
Last Life - Powerboard Productions

Best Unsigned Game (overall winner)
Hazard: The Journey of Life – Alexander Bruce

Read here about the other winners on the night.