An Australian game has just taken out the Grand Prize at Japan’s longest-running independent games festival. Dap, the debut game from Melbourne microstudio Melting Parrot, just won the Vermillion Gate Award at Bitsummit, as well as the festival’s award for Best Sound Design. With these wins, Dap might be the most celebrated Australian game you’ve never heard of: now, it’s scheduled for release on 29 September, and it’s time for that to change.
The result is a surreal action role-playing game set in a lucid dream. In the dark, forested dreamscape, you collect strange creatures called daps. Moving in a dreamlike, collective motion inspired by the way bees swarm, the daps can help you fight monsters, solve environmental puzzles, and battle the alien infection taking over the forest.
