7th annual Game Developers Choice Awards results at GDC
Posted by M (9 Mar 2007, 11:47 a.m. NZDT)
Gears of War was the recipient of three honours including Best Game at the seventh annual Game Developers Choice Awards.
The blockbuster hit game also received the awards for Technology and Visual Arts.
Following close behind with two awards each were Wii Sports. The ceremony, produced and hosted by the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and presented by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), is the only peer-based, open nomination awards programme in the industry where honours are bestowed upon developers by their peers. Recipients were announced yesterday at the 2007 Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
"A Game Developers Choice Award is like no other award presented in our industry, as it is the only prize that gives the community the chance to appreciate and honour individual developers," said Jamil Moledina, Executive Director of the Game Developers Conference. "By celebrating our visionaries by name, we give the audience and the public at large a chance to give credit where credit is due."
Nominations were free of charge and open to all IGDA members, ensuring that the nominees reflect the international development community's opinions. The IGDA membership voted on the finalists.
The recipients for the awards are:
Best Game
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Cliff Bleszinski, Michael Capps, Rod Fergusson
Audio
Guitar Hero II (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Jeff Allen, Eric Brosius, Izzy Maxwell
Character Design
Ôkami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Mari Shimazaki, Sawaki Takeyasu, Kenichirou Yoshimura
Game Design
Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita
Technology
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Michael Capps, Ray Davis, Tim Sweeney, Daniel Vogel
Visual Arts
Gears of War (Epic Games / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Jerry O'Flaherty, Chris Perna
Writing
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Kyogoku Aya, Nate Bihldorff, Mitsuhiro Takano
New Studio
Iron Lore Entertainment (Titan Quest)
- Paul Chieffo, Jeff Goodsill, Brian Sullivan
Innovation
Line Rider
- Boðtjan Cadeþ
Ôkami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya
Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita
Recipients for the special awards were:
Lifetime Achievement
Shigeru Miyamoto
First Penguin
Alexey Pajitnov
Maverick
Greg Costikyan
Community Contribution
George "The Fat Man" Sanger
For more information about the awards and all the recipients, visit gamechoiceawards.com.
