GDCA Winners Announced

[jeffool]

Gamasutra (http://www.gamasutra.com) has announced the winners (http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=8642) of the 6th Annual Game Developer Choice Awards, given out Wednesday night at GDC. For more info on GDCA winners, and explanations of special awards given, check out the GDCA's official website (http://www.gamechoiceawards.com/).

The recipients for the 6th annual Game Developers Choice Awards are:

Best Game
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Kenji Kaido, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Fumito Ueda

Audio
Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Eric Brosius, Kasson Crooker

Character Design
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Atsuko Fukuyama, Hitoshi Niwa, Shunpei Suzuki, Fumito Ueda

Game Design
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda

Technology
Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Tsutomu Kaneshige

Visual Arts
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita, Hironobu Nakano, Fumito Ueda

Writing
Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)
- Tim Schafer, Erik Wolpaw

New Studio
Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts)
- Caroline Esmurdoc, Tim Schafer

Innovation
Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)
- Greg LoPiccolo, Ryan Lesser

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Tsutomu Kaneshige, Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Mizuki

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda

Recipients for the evening’s special awards were:

Lifetime Achievement
Richard Garriott

First Penguin
Will Crowther, Don Woods

Maverick
Mike Dornbrook, Eran Egozy, Greg LoPiccolo, Alex Rigopulos
Personally, these are my favorite awards. The finalists are nominated by IGDA members, similar to how most other industries hand out major awards. One can only hope that these fine people and games are the ones that inspire the industry in the coming years.

[a|A]

Go Psychonauts!

it has fantastic writing so it is well deserved of the prize.

[Meusli]

First Penguin
Will Crowther, Don Woods

Sorry you missed out there Bapenguin, maybe next year :rolleyes:

[Varsity]

Can't help but agree with the decisions.

[Steve_Erhardt]

Good year award-wise for console games, I guess. Seems a few PC titles got criminally overlooked, though, IMO.

[Bydo_Empire]

I finally picked up Psychonauts last week, and after only the first few hours, I'd definitely agree with "best writing." The game is brilliant.

[TrackZero]

Go Schafer!!!

[SaintArnold]

Erik of OldManMurray fame was co-write on Psychonauts??

InterestLevel++;

[Citizen Philip]

Erik of OldManMurray fame was co-write on Psychonauts??

InterestLevel++;

Ha! I remeber OldManMurray, that was a funny place. That and Fatbabies.

On another note is that Eric Brosius from the Thief/System Shock Sound team?

[Jukey]

Personally, these are my favorite awards. The finalists are nominated by IGDA members, similar to how most other industries hand out major awards.

Also similar to other industries, the majority of the titles performed poorly in the marketplace :(

[Nimos]

Best awards ever

[Kyle Jones]

Couple of my favorites were overlooked, but I was mostly just hoping for Double Fine to win a couple!

[Mason]

Great list. Preach it.

[Lizard Dude]

How in the heck is Guitar Hero "innovative" when Konami's Guitar Freak has been doing the exact same thing for 11 mixes? +2 frets equals innovation? They even stole the jerking sensor feature.

[harle]

Horrible list

[Stormwatcher]

Brosius Ftw!!!