We spent the final moments of 2011 game jamming our hearts out. Here, at long last, are the awesome results of Capy Jam 2!

Descriptions by the game makers! Enjoy!

THE FINAL ACT
TEAM: Vic Nguyen – Hubert Wong

You are trying to save the princess by beating your rival in combat — but there is a twist. This game revolves around acting. In essence, the player plays the role of an actor who is playing the role of someone who is trying to save the princess. Gameplay revolves around how well the player plays his role as an actor in the play.

FERRET WINGS
TEAM: Kenneth Yeung – Kelly Smith

It is the height of World War II and Europe is on the verge of collapse. The evil mastermind Adolf Hamster has created mind-controlling war machines, turning all the animals of the forest into soldiers of his twisted army. You are Captain Ferris, the last remaining ferret free from Adolf Hamster’s clutches. You must pilot your Ferret Flier and destroy his evil machines. It’s time to free your animal friends, enlist their help and lead them in a fight to take back the animal kingdom!

FART N’ BURP
TEAM: Drew Grainge – Qiqo – Matt Repetski – Sean Lohrisch

Fart N Burp is the first game to tackle to increasingly important issue of flatulence and its role within the cultural systems of psychedelic intergalactic worlds of tomorrow. An ambitious project to say the least, and one which we expect will likely be cherished by fart enthusiasts for generations, it is in fact still but an infant. Certainly Fart-Flying through beautiful landscapes to the smooth stylings of the Glenn Miller Orchestra is a euphoric and mesmerizing enough experience that it may cause one to wonder “What else could I possibly want out of life?” but the truth is, time limitations required us to cut planned features such as Accu-Fart Technology and “Farticles,” and the result is a game which, I believe, asks fewer questions about the nature of male-female relationships than we initially set out to. Sure it sounds simple on paper; fart to propel yourself over obstacles, burp to shoot downward and avoid oncoming space poo, gobble up delicious floating junk food and laxatives and try not to fart on any of the Venus Clamshell Ladies as you pass them by…. but paper is an old man’s game.

JETMAN ADVENTURES
TEAM: Sylvain Coutouly – Jon Maur – Sean Lohrisch

Jetman was a character wrongfully cut from a different Capy project so we wanted to give him his own game. Somehow that turned into a kind of touch screen Panzer Dragoon/Defender hybrid with Fruit Ninja influences. The basic idea is Yellow Laser kills, Blue Laser saves. You should only kill the alien ships, and save the civilians. Unfortunately we didn’t get all the extra gameplay elements like combos done in time, but what did make it in was already quite fun. We used the engine from Sworcery and only had to write new Lua and Xml scripts.

LEAD-MMING
TEAM: Colin Weick – Anthony Chan

Lead-mming is a puzzle game intending to combine elements of Lemmings, Pipe Dream, and other games. The player’s goal is to create a path for the lead-mming, by shuffling the panel layout of each level. We had a lot of different variations and different mechanics for this concept, such as black and white inversion, sliding rows and columns, panel orientation locking on/off…etc. In the end we chose to do it with just the one simple mechanic of shuffling the panels by rotation.

ALONE ON THE MOON
TEAM: Tri Vuong – Christian Meyer – Frankie Leung

Frankie: “You know, it’s about a man. Alone on the moon. Fighting against aliens who want to destroy democracy. The sequel to the 2010 critically acclaimed game.”

Tri: “I guess we were trying to make a turn based tactics game where you had team members with different specialties. Unfortunately due to time restraints, we had to scale that all back and only had one astronaut.”

Christian: “We all had different thoughts about what this game would and could be.”

CHAMP BRO
TEAM: Mike Nguyen – Bryan McConkey – Kris Piotrowski

Champ Bro is the most challenging game ever made. Not because it is difficult, but because it is true. It’s about life, death, sex, booze, death, hitting dingers, eating steaks, death, booze and death. It’s about dancing on a knife edge, millimeters from sweet, sweet oblivion. Also, Rock and Roll.

WOOOOOOOOOOP WHOOOOP! Looks like we had a some fun, don’t it?!? If you’re interested in more photos from the jam, check out our Flickr feed!

And just when we though things couldn’t get any more crazier, unexpected (and humbling): Sworcery gets nominated for Best Mobile Game by the Game Developer Choice Awards.

Holy smokes! THANK YOU VERY VERY MUCH, GDC Awards people! Our hearts are collectively melted and our minds are collectively blown.

This is a cool way to start the New Year: Super T.I.M.E. Force sneaks into the IGF with an Honorable Mention for Technical Excellence! Congrats to Kenneth Yeung and the STF team!

And of course, HUGE CONGRATS to all of the nominees! The 2012 IGF list is absolutely filled to the brim with beautiful and inspiring games. Good Luck to all ya’ll!

Well heck, 2011 kicked off with a bucket of curveballs, but seems like it may have wrapped up with some genuine dingers! Yeee Haaawww!

SUPERBROTHERS: SWORD & SWORCERY EP

APPLE – APP STORE REWIND iPAD GAME OF THE YEAR RUNNER UP
TOUCH ARCADE – GAME OF THE YEAR
GAMESPOT – BEST MOBILE GAME 2011
148APPS – BEST GAME OF 2011
MASHABLE – iOS GAME OF THE YEAR
MASHABLE – iOS TOP RPGS
TIME MAGAZINE – 10 BEST GAMES OF 2011
IGN – BEST MOBILE ADVENTURE GAME 2011
KOTAKU – BEST GAME MUSIC OF 2011
KOTAKU – GAME OF THE YEAR NOMINEE
GAMASUTRA – MOBILE GAME OF THE YEAR RUNNER UP
GAMASUTRA – TOP 10 INDIE GAMES OF THE YEAR
SPIKE VGA – BEST INDEPENDENT GAME NOMINEE
GAMEZEBO – BEST iPAD GAME 2011
GAMEZEBO – BEST ADVENTURE GAME 2011
INDIEDB – MUSICALITY AWARD
1UP – MOST SURPRISING GAME OF 2011
GAMESRADAR – BEST DOWNLOADABLE GAMES OF 2011
UNWINNABLE – BEST VALIDATION OF THE IPAD AS A PLATFORM
YAHOO – BEST PHONE/TABLET GAME
REVIEWS ON THE RUN – BEST iOS GAME
REVIEWS ON THE RUN – BEST iOS ADVENTURE GAME
PCMAG – 30 BEST iPAD GAMES
VENTUREBEAT – BEST INDIE GAMES OF 2011
VENTUREBEAT – BEST GAMES OF 2011 HONORABLE MENTION
VENTUREBEAT – TEN BEST iOS GAMES OF 2011
WIRED – 20 BEST GAMES OF 2011
APPOLICIOUS – BEST GAMES OF 2011
MACHINIMA INSIDE GAMING – BEST INDIE GAME NOMINEE
MACHINIMA INSIDE GAMING – BEST ART DIRECTION NOMINEE
XPLAY – MOST ORIGINAL GAME NOMINEE
XPLAY – BEST SOUNDTRACK NOMINEE
CANOE.CA / TORONTO SUN – TOP GAMES OF 2011
SLIDE2PLAY – TOP GAMES OF 2011
DESTRUCTOID – ‘WHY DID YOU NO PLAY THIS THING’ AWARD
SFSIGNAL – BEST GEEK ALBUMS OF 2011
POCKETGAMER – TOP 10 GAMES OF 2011
APPADVICE – 10 BEST PAID APPS OF 2011
PASTE MAG – 3rd BEST GAME OF 2011
MACWORLD – APP GEMS BEST iOS GAMES OF 2011
GLOBE & MAIL – TOP 25 GAMES OF 2011
NPR – TOP 10 GAMES OF 2011
QUALITY INDEX – TOP 10 IPHONE GAMES OF 2011

And Hot Dang! Even Clash of Heroes HD got some love!

CLASH OF HEROES

GAMASUTRA – DOWNLOADABLE GAME OF THE YEAR
PSNStores – BEST MULTIPLATFORM GAME
JOYSTIQ – BEST OF THE REST
EUROGAMER – GAMES OF 2011
IGN – BEST XLBA GAMES OF 2011

If we missed anything, please let us know!

Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you all. We love that you love us and we love you back. May 2012 bring everyone peace, love and great success, assuming it doesn’t bring everyone complete and utter apocalyptic devastation.

As we have done each seasonal solstice since Sword & Sworcery launch, you can now grab the game for $1.99 [universal] or $0.99 [iPhone-only Micro edition]. This sale will end in just over 24hrs, so grab a copy on sale, then fetch yourself a glass of scotch, a set of headphones and a pile of blankets!