Summary: The meat pigeon survival game "Boot Ark" developed by Zing Games Studio officially announced on July 22, 2025 that it was shortlisted for the three heavyweight awards of the 2025 ChinaJoy-Game Connection INDIE GAME Development Awards - "Most Expected Game", "Best Original Game" and "Best Rogue Game"."Breaking the Ark" stands out with its innovative "Mobile Ark Survival" gameplay and continuously optimized content iteration, becoming one of the focus of this event.
Fire the cannon Ark is a survival pigeon game that combines action, construction and exploration.Its unique ark driving gameplay is undoubtedly the main feature that helps it distinguish it from most meat pigeon survivor games on the market.Players can directly crush the zombies by driving a huge steel ark. They can also use the rich turret system in the game to build their own artillery ships. There are also a variety of survivor skills that can make the survival experience of each game reach a different realm.It is this deep combination of vehicle driving and tower defense strategy that brings players a dynamic offensive and defense experience that is very different from traditional survivor games.
Since its release, the development team has continued to listen to community feedback to promote optimization.At present, many bugs have been fixed, including turret loading exceptions and volcano map stuttering issues, and 60 frames of the full scene are adapted for Steam Deck handheld consoles.The official team continues to collect player suggestions on QQ group and B station platform. The team confirmed that the new patch details will be announced in the near future, and said that the suggestions and feedback provided by players directly drive 70% of the game's optimization items.
The shortlist for ChinaJoy-Game Connection INDIE GAME Development Awards was officially released on July 18, 2025. This year's Grand Prix attracted more than 400 game works from more than 50 countries around the world to participate. This year's jury consists of executives from international manufacturers such as 505 Games and Indienova, and is strictly screened from three dimensions of creativity, completion and market potential.After layers of screening by the international jury, 40 excellent games finally stood out and were successfully shortlisted for the final competition for 15 awards.
Since Game Connection and ChinaJoy joined hands, the scale and influence of development awards have continued to expand, and have become an important platform for global game creators to show their talents, strive for cooperation and exposure.This year, the award selection continues to adhere to the innovative selection criteria to fully explore game projects with unique creativity and potential, helping global developers and partners achieve win-win results.The shortlisted works will be listed in the exclusive exhibition area of the W5 Pavilion of Shanghai New International Expo Center, facing core players and industry partners with an average of more than 10,000 people per day.The final award will be announced at the award ceremony on August 3. Players can participate in the award selection process on-site from August 1 to 3 to experience the unique charm of independent games.
"Breaking the Ark" is now selling well on the Steam platform, priced at 54 yuan."Award recognition is the end of the journey, not the end. We will continue the survival legend of the Iron Ark with more intensive content updates."
