This was a triumph
I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS!
It’s hard to overstate my satisfaction
Portal won Game of the Year at the Game Developer Choice Award!! It also got the Best Game Design and the Innovation Award!
BioShock was also in the spotlight at the GDCA winning 3 awards (Best Writing, Best Visual Arts and Best Audio)
Congratulations to all Game Developer that were involved in any games that were nominated ! You’re all the REAL winners of the GDCA!
Congrats again to Jason Della Rocca who won the Ambassador Award
I don’t mean to sound ungrateful for this award, this is truly a wonderful honor. But, I’m just one person. What the industry needs now is for each one of you to get out there and be an ambassador for games, for game culture, for the profession of game development.
And big kudos to the Kokoromi gang for the well deserved Excellence in Visual Art IGF Award for Fez. And Fish reading his acceptance haiku with a monocle; Just awesome!
The Game Developers Choice Awards 2008 nominees have been announced and Portal and BioShock are leading the pack with 5 nominations. Mass Effect and Call of Duty 4 gets 4 nominations.
What a year! This is going to be hard to decide! Just for the heck of it I’ll go with 3 predictions:
- Best Writing goes to Portal
- Best Game Design will also go to Portal
- Innovation Award might go to Portal
What are your predictions?
The GDCA, presented by the IGDA, is a peer-based, open nomination awards program where honours are given by developers to developers. The awards will be handed out at the Game Developers Conference, February 20th
Jason Della Rocca, IGDA’s Executive Director, president of the IGDA Montreal Chapter and all around nice guy, will receive this year GDCA’s Ambassador Award!
Congrats Jason!
The GDCA winners have been announced! The big winner of this year GDCA is Gears of Wars (Technology, Visual Arts and Best Game awards). Congratulation to Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski, Michael Capps, Ray Davis, Rod Fergusson, Jerry O’Flaherty, Chris Perna, Tim Sweeney, Daniel Vogel.
Wii Sports won Game Design and Innovation awards. Omedetou gozaimasu (Congratulations) to Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita!
Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya, Mari Shimazaki, Sawaki Takeyasu, Kenichirou Yoshimura from Clover Studio won Character Design and Innovation for Okami.
With Guitar Hero II wining the Audio award, Harmonix Music Systems and RedOctane became the first in the history of GDCA to win the same award 2 years in a row. Kudos to Jeff Allen, Eric Brosius, Izzy Maxwell!
Congratulations to all Game Developer that were involved in any games that were nominated ! You’re all the REAL winners of the GDCA!
Alexey Pajitnov and Shigeru Miyamoto in the “special” spotlight for GDCA 2007.
Alexey Pajitnov will receive the First Penguin Award. Award that acknowledges developers who dive head first into unknown territory and pave the way for the rest of the development community.
Miyamoto-san will joins the ranks of Richard “Lord British” Garriott (Origin Systems – Ultime Online, NCSoft – City of Heroes/Vilains), Will Wright (Maxis – SimCity and The Sims), Yuji Naka (Sega – Sonic The Hedgehog), Gunpei Yokoi(Nintendo – Game & Watch and GameBoy creator), Mark Cerny and Eugene Jarvis by receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award. Miyamoto-san we wub roo!
