GDC: Choice Awards Results
Laptop Battery The International Game Developers Association [IGDA] has announced the recipients of the 5th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The awards were announced at the GDC this week in San Francisco, Calif. Voting was open to members of the game development community. Here's the full list of winners:
Audio
Halo 2 (Bungie Software / Microsoft Game Studios)
C Paul Johnson, Marty O'Donnell, Jay Weinland
Character Design
Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games)
Ted Backman, Dhabih Eng, Bill Fletcher, Bill Van Buren
Game Design
Katamari Damacy (Namco)
Keita Takahashi
Technology
Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games)
Yahn Bernier, Brian Jacobson
Visual Arts
World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
Sam Didier, William Petras, Justin Thavirat
Writing
Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games)
Marc Laidlaw
New Studio
Crytek (Far Cry)
Avni Yerli, Cevat Yerli, Faruk Yerli
Innovation [3]
Donkey Konga (Namco / Nintendo)
Hiroshi Igarashi, Hiroyuki Onoda
I Love Bees (4orty2wo Entertainment / Microsoft Game Studios)
Elan Lee
Katamari Damacy (Namco)
Keita Takahashi
Lifetime Achievement
Lugene Jarvis - legendary arcade game developer
First Penguin
Richard Allan Bartle, Ph.D - founding father of Multi-User Dungeons
Maverick
Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr and Nick Tandavanitj - founders and leaders of Blast Theory, an internationally renowned interactive media artists' group
Community Contribution
Sheri Graner Ray - revered advocate of women's interests in game development
"We are extremely happy to host the awards ceremony at the Game Developers Conference. We believe it's important to celebrate the individual recipients and provide them with as much exposure as possible," said GDC Director Jamil Moledina.
"The Choice Awards are a celebration of all the passion and hard work that goes into creating ground-breaking games. Developers are the talent that drives this industry and they deserve the recognition for having worked on these great games," said Jason Della Rocca, Executive irector of the IGDA.
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