Farbs (Jarrad Woods)
Jarrad Woods (Farbs) at the Game Developers Conference in 2010
Born1979 (age 44–45)
Canberra, Australia
Occupation(s)Independent game developer, Farbs.org

Farbs is the pseudonym of Jarrad Woods, an indie gamer who gained media attention when he quit his job at gaming firm 2K Australia using a video game.[1][2] When asked in an interview where the idea had come from to quit via video game, Woods stated "At the time there were a lot of articles touting indie games as a form of expression, and I hate writing so I wanted to express my goodbye to the team in some other way. I had planned to leave for a few months, but the message was more spontaneous".[3]

Education

Farbs studied at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in Canberra, Australia.

Games

After eight years in commercial game design, Farbs started creating independent projects as a sideline in 2006.

Farbs has created several games including Polychromatic Funk Monkey, Fishie Fishie, ROM CHECK FAIL, Captain Forever and most recently, Captain Jameson. He also contributed work to Card Hunter.

ROM CHECK FAIL

ROM CHECK FAIL was created for and won the 2008 Video Game Name Generator competition run by Derek Yu's site The Independent Gaming Source.[4]

It went on to be listed in Gamasutra's top 5 indie games of 2008.[5] Farbs presented ROM CHECK FAIL at the 2009 Experimental Gameplay Workshop, run by Jonathan Blow.[6]

Following interest from the art community it was, or is to be, included in a number of exhibitions such as at the Powerhouse Museum, Finland's ManseDanse09 and Spain's Intermediae.[7][8]

In 2011 Farbs made the Python source code of ROM CHECK FAIL freely available under a public domain like license.[9]

Captain Forever

Captain Forever is Farbs' most recent release, for which he won the Best Game award at the 2009 China Independent Games Festival.[10]

References

  1. ↑ "Game over! Funk Monkey developer quits in style". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 29 April 2009.
  2. ↑ "Developer resigns via computer game". 29 April 2009.
  3. ↑ Courtney, Timothy (18 March 2016). "Game Talk: Developer of Card Hunter & Captain Forever, Jarrad "Farbs" Woods Interview with Timothy Courtney". timothycourtney.io. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  4. ↑ "TIGSource » TIGArchive » ROM CHECK… SUCCEED!".
  5. ↑ "Gamasutra's Best of 2008: Top 5 Indie Games".
  6. ↑ "GDC: Inside the Experimental Gameplay Sessions 2009".
  7. ↑ "Rom Check Fail, ultimate videogame remix - Neural.it :: Media culture, hacktivism". Archived from the original on 2009-07-09. Retrieved 2009-12-06.
  8. ↑ "Powerhouse Museum Website".
  9. ↑ ROM CHECK YOURSELF by Farbs on October 1, 2011
  10. ↑ "Farbs wins 2009 GDC China Independent Games Festival competition | tsumea".
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