MELBOURNE – October 4, 2011 – This year a number of budding game developers have created a world of new video game action for the 2011 ATOM Awards program – battling serial killers, crazy neighbours and hazards left lying around the house. Each of the ATOM Awards finalists in the Tertiary Multimedia & Games category have chosen to combine elements of danger with others of intrigue, reasoning, skill and deduction.
“Yet again we’ve seen some fantastic entries from game developer students into the ATOM Awards program. It’s always refreshing to see the different topics they choose to tackle and the new skills and ways of game-play that they address,” said Simon Wilmot, ATOM Awards Executive Officer.
“Game development and indeed the wider genre of gaming is becoming more and more intertwined with the wider media industry and as such it’s wonderful to see entries into the ATOM Awards that show the exciting development of our game developers of the future,” he added.
‘A Forest in Orange’, created by Andrew Formosa of Victoria University, is an action/thriller interactive comic book that spotlights a vigilante character – Lila Dale – who is frantically searching for a serial killer who has been terrorising the city streets for decades. Lila teams with her associate Cy Keller and her mentor Josie Spade as they search to find the serial killer before more terror is unleashed.
As the game progresses and the team extend their search, Lila discovers a number of motifs in each crime scene, each of which symbolise an event from her past. Lila needs to decide if she’s game enough to solve the puzzles and in doing so, get closer to nailing her target.
In ‘Alf’s Dungeon’, created by Brandon Grant of Caroline Springs College Lakeview, gamers are faced with the scary notion that their crazy neighbour, Alf, is holding their character prisoner in his dungeon. Here, it’s up to the gamer to use their ingenuity and whatever tools they can find lying around in the dungeon, to make their escape – or risk living in Alf’s Dungeon forever.
‘Around the House’, created by Ruby Anriquez-Acevedo – also from Caroline Springs College – focuses on the notion that someone has left your house in quite a state, with many dangerous items left lying around. It’s up to you to clean up all the hazardous items and make the house safe again… can you do it or will you fall victim to the danger around you?
As for who will be crowned the winner of the 2011 ATOM Awards Tertiary Multimedia & Games category – you’ll have to wait until Friday 21 October to find out!
The 2011 ATOM Awards winners will be announced at the 2011 ATOM Awards Night, which will be held at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Melbourne on Friday 21 October, 2011.
The 2011 ATOM Awards program is presented by ATOM. The 2011 ATOM Awards is sponsored and supported by Aurora Community Channel, Swinburne University, Madman, Encore Magazine, Griffith University, Holmesglen Institute of TAFE, Deakin University, AFTRS, Federation Square Melbourne, ScreenHub, Quest Collins Street Central, Wide Angle, Qpix, Inside Film, Metro Magazine, Screen Education Magazine, Northbridge Piazza – City of Perth, Scotch College, Big Mouth Marketing Communications, Australian Directors Guild, Screen Producers Association of Australia, Screenworks, Film Making Summer School, Australian Short Films, Screen ACT, Film & Television Institute WA, Australian College QED, VCA School of Film and Television, ASPERA, Australian Screen Editors and the New Zealand Film Commission. The 2011 ATOM Awards is funded by Film Victoria and the South Australian Film Corporation.
For more information about the 2011 ATOM Awards please visit www.atomawards.org