Independent game development firm Cryptic Sea yesterday at the 9th annual Independent Games Festival took home $5,000 along with the Gametap award for its latest game, Blast Miner, which challenges players to extract chunks of gold from mine shafts using TNT, gasoline, acid, and other means. The physics-based title features two modes: players can steadily extract gold in a fast-paced Tetris-like environment or use deep strategy to solve complicated puzzles. Cryptic Sea's programmer and designer, Alex Austin, spoke with MacNN about porting the new title to the Mac platform. "We plan to release a Mac version as soon as possible," Austin said. "The porting process shouldn't take long once we obtain the proper hardware." The artist behind Blast Miner, Edmund McMillen, added that Gish 2 is under development and could also find its way into the hands of Mac gamers. The original hit game Gish was awarded the Seamus McNally Award at the 2005 Independent Games Festival, and is still available for Mac, Linux, and Windows users. [corrected]
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...a little gratuitously violent dynamiting to usher in a technical excellence award... ;-)