March 24, 2006
Weird Worlds’ Awesome Aural Achievement
Digital Eel Snags The IGF 2006 Innovation In
Audio Award
On Wednesday, March 22nd, in San Jose,
California, the Seventh Annual Independent Games Festival awards were presented.
Digital Eel’s Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space had been nominated in three
categories: the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, Innovation in Audio, and the
Audience Award. Among all three categories was an amazing array of talent and
superb games.
Digital Eel snagged the Innovation in Audio
award, a category they’re quite familiar with as they also won the Innovation in
Audio award in 2004 for their title, Dr. Blob’s Organism. Shrapnel Games would
like to congratulate Digital Eel (the fine folks of Eel consisting of Rich
Carlson, Iikka Kernen, and Bill "Phosphorus" Sears) on this most excellent
achievement! Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is very deserving of this
honor, and we’re quite pleased to see it recognized. Be sure to catch Spike TV’s
weekly gaming show, GameHead, for coverage of the IGF 2006 awards and to see the
Eel on the tube April 7th! (Check your local cable listing for time and
channel.)
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space is
published by Shrapnel Games and is available either as a download or a physical
copy shipped directly to your door. I
Download the Weird Worlds demo here.
The demo allows players to play a full ten-year
pirate mission (in the full retail game you can choose between science, pirate,
and military missions for your career, each one pursuing different goals) on a
small map. While there is much more to see in the full game the demo is a great
sampling, and a heck of a lot of fun by itself. Try it today!
Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space the full,
retail game is mixture of turn-based strategy, role-playing elements, real-time
tactical battles, and lots of surprises. Captains exploring the mysterious
Sector Prime will encounter a dizzying array of aliens (both friend, foe, and in
between), artifacts, environmental mysteries, followers, swap meets, rogues, and
much, much more. Every game is different, and with the ease of modding Weird
Worlds, gamers can easily continue to experience new adventures years down the
starlane.
To order Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
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For more information on this title, or any of our
other great titles covering a spectrum of subject matter, please go to
www.shrapnelgames.com.
There you’ll find all the latest Shrapnel Games news, free demos, and more.
