Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences
The Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS) based in Inglewood is a Founded in 1996, non-profit organization that computer and video games supported and the annual symposium DICE Summit organized. Since 1998 it has also presented the DICE Awards (formerly the Interactive Achievement Awards ) and appoints the members of the AIAS Hall of Fame . The AIAS members are experts in the game industry who must meet certain criteria in order to be able to choose the best entertainment software of the year. As of October 2012, the AIAS represented over 22,000 members from the computer game industry.
history
AIAS was originally founded in 1992 by a small group of Los Angeles- based experts who wanted to help Silicon Valley game developers involve Hollywood actors and other creative professionals in their activities. The AIAS was finally founded in November 1996. The founding managing directors were Marc Teren and Denise Kristie. After Andrew Zucker , a Beverly Hills attorney , became the third executive director, through his efforts, the AIAS became an organization of approximately 500 members and 50 board advisors.
In 1994 the AIAS successfully produced the first televised award show for computer games, Cybermania '94 . This was licensed to TBS for transmission. Cybermania was recorded at Universal Studios and hosted by Leslie Nielsen and Jonathan Taylor Thomas . The second awards in 1995 were broadcast in what was then a burgeoning new medium, the Internet .
After it was determined that the likelihood of similar awards occurring on television was low, at least in the near future, the name of the organization was licensed to a company that is now active as AIAS. Today's AIAS is operated by a different company than those founded by Zucker in 1992, but it has the same intentions and, through licensing in 1996, it uses the same logo and award statue as that of the founders of the original AIAS were conceived. The aim of the AIAS is to promote the computer game industry and its representatives. It has hosted the annual DICE Summit since 2002, during which the DICE Awards (Interactive Achievement Awards until 2012) are presented and the youngest member of the AIAS Hall of Fame is formally honored. The organization also gives scholarships to students.
Supervisory board
The following people represent certain developers and publishers on the AIAS supervisory board:
| person | Companies |
|---|---|
| Martin Rae | Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (President) |
| Mike Capps | Epic Games |
| Jay Cohen | Proseed Games (AIAS CEO) |
| Michael Gallagher | Entertainment Software Association |
| Rich Hilleman | Electronic Arts |
| Don James | Nintendo of America |
| Min Kim | Nexon America |
| Ken Lobb | Microsoft Game Studios |
| Seth Ladd | |
| Ted Price | Insomniac Games (AIAS Vice Chairman) |
| Frank Pearce | Blizzard Entertainment |
| Brian Reynolds | Zynga |
| Christian Svensson | Capcom |
| Denny Thorley | Day 1 Studios (AIAS Secretariat) |
| Patricia Vance | ESRB |
| Shuhei Yoshida | Sony Computer Entertainment |
Interactive Achievement Awards
The DICE Awards (until 2012: Interactive Achievement Awards) have been presented every spring since 1998 for the best game releases of the previous year. Similar to the Oscars, the winners are determined by voting by the members. The following games won in the category Game of the Year , whereby the year refers to the year of the event:
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Archived copy ( memento of the original from February 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ AIAS Awards . AIAS. Retrieved October 7, 2010.
