Game Development: From beginner to journeyman

This year’s Game Developer Choice Award Winners have been announced. Shadow of the Colossus is the big winner with 5 awards : Character Design, Game Design, Visual Arts, Best Game and Innovation. Omedetou gozaimasu (Congratulations) Atsuko Fukuyama, Koji Hasegawa, Junichi Hosono, Kenji Kaido, Masanori Kajita, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Hironobu Nakano, Hitoshi Niwa, Shunpei Suzuki, Fumito Ueda!

Guitar Hero’s team won Audio and Innovation. Congrats to Greg LoPiccolo, Ryan Lesser, Eric Brosius and Kasson Crooker. Nintendog’s team took Technology and Innovation awards back home. Kudos to Tsutomu Kaneshige, Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto and Kiyoshi Mizuki. Caroline Esmurdoc, Tim Schafer and Erik Wolpaw of the Psychonauts’s team were honored with the Writing and New Studio (Double Fine Productions) awards.

And congratulations to all Game Developer that were involved in any of the game that were nominated !