Game Developers Choice Awards

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The Game Developers Choice Awards have been presented since 2001 at the Game Developers Conference by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) in San José , California. Only regular members, i.e. game developers, are permitted for both nomination and voting. The award ceremony will be accompanied by online media.

From 1997 to 1999 the Spotlight Awards were presented at the Game Developers Conference . Since 2010, the Game Developers Choice Online Awards , which focus on online games, have continued to exist as a supplement .

Award

game of the year

This award recognizes a title in its entirety.

Audio

Aspects such as music and sound effects are included in the award of this prize.

Game design

Winners of this award are praised for their game mechanics, puzzles, game balance, scenarios and the like.

technology

This award praises the technical aspects of a game, such as the graphics engine , the physics engine , and artificial intelligence .

Visual design

Arnt Jensen from PlayDead (left) and graphic artist Morten Bramsen (back) received the "Best Visual Art" award for Limbo by Tim Schafer at the 2011 Game Developers Choice Awards

This award honors visual highlights in terms of animation , modeling , textures and graphic style.

script

This award goes to games that excelled in the areas of plot, plot structure, dialogues and narrative text.

innovation

The prize for innovation is awarded to up to three games that represent actual innovations and advance the video game medium as an art form.

Best handheld game

Games that run on handheld systems are nominated in the “Best Handheld Game” category . The winners are:

Best debut game

In the “Best Debut Game” category, games are nominated that are each the first game by a development studio. The winners are:

Lifetime Achievement Award

This prize is awarded for life's work.

Pioneer Award (until 2007: The First Penguin Award)

This prize is intended to honor developers who have successfully broken new, risky paths with their work and thus served as a source of inspiration for subsequent game developments (English pioneer: pioneer). Until 2007, the prize was called The First Penguin Award (in German: The first penguin ). This was inspired by the children's book Mr. Popper's Penguins and alluded to the observation that Adelie penguins usually jump into the water in groups, where one of them has to take the first step.

Ambassador Award

(Engl. With the Ambassador Award ambassador: Ambassador), persons awarded that have contributed significantly to improving the state of the computer games industry.

Award no longer awarded

The following awards are no longer given.

Best level design

Best video game programming

Character design

This price rated ( unlicensed ) characters in games. The criteria for this included originality, emotional depth and character development.

Best new developer studio

IGDA Award for Community Contribution

This award recognizes notable contributions to building a game development community, disseminating knowledge, and advocating on behalf of other developers.

Maverick Award

A Maverick (in English: outsider ) is awarded to a developer who has shown stubbornness and has experimented with alternative or new concepts.

  • 2004: Brian Fiete, Jason Kapalka, John Vechey
  • 2005: Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr, Nick Tandavanitj
  • 2006: Mike Dornbrook, Eran Egozy, Greg LoPiccolo, Alex Rigopulos
  • 2007: Greg Costikyan

Best New Social / Online Game

New online games and browser games are nominated in this category .

Best Downloadable Game

In the category for “Best Downloadable Game”, games for PC or consoles are nominated that can only be obtained by download and that focus on the casual game character. The winners are:

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  1. ↑ Reports on the Game Developers Choice Awards at Stern.de ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), DerStandard.at , CHIP.de , Golem.de , heise online (2006) , heise online (2007)
  2. ↑ http://www.gdconlineawards.com/

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