2008 Game Developers Choice Awards Return to San Francisco Wednesday, February 20 at the Game Developers Conference
Posted on November 21, 2007
Filed Under Gaming, News, Tech Biz
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 21 /PRNewswire/ — The 2008 Game Developers Choice
Awards, the highest honors in game development acknowledging excellence in
game design, will return to San Francisco for a second consecutive year on
Wednesday, February 20. Presented by CMP Technology’s Game Developers
Conference (GDC) and Webby-award winning Gamasutra.com, this year’s awards
feature several new categories, two of which — the Ambassador Award and
the Pioneer Award — are now open for nominations from qualified game
professionals. Nominations are also now open for the Lifetime Achievement
Award. The awards ceremony, held in conjunction with the Independent Games
Festival, will be hosted during GDC 2008 in the Esplanade Room in the South
Hall of San Francisco’s Moscone Center. For complete details and to submit
nominations for the three special award categories through November 30,
please visit http://www.gamechoiceawards.com.
The three special awards now open for nominations honor individuals
whose achievements have made an impact on games and the game community as a
whole, and not necessarily only over the past year. The Ambassador Award
honors an individual (or group of individuals) who has helped the game
industry advance to a better place, either through facilitating a better
game community from within, or by reaching outside the industry to be an
advocate for video games to help further the art. The Pioneer Award
celebrates those individuals who developed a breakthrough technology, game
concept or gameplay design at a crucial juncture in video game history,
paving the way for the myriad developers who followed them. The Lifetime
Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of a developer who
has made an indelible impact on the craft of game development.
“Like the GDC itself, the Game Developers Choice Awards must evolve
with the breakthroughs we celebrate, particularly in light of the
industry’s growing impact on pop culture,” said Jamil Moledina, executive
director of the Game Developers Conference. “By creating new, more
inclusive categories and a new Ambassador award that focuses on advancing
the industry itself — as well as partnering with Gamasutra.com on our
peer-based voting mechanism — we are ideally positioned to spotlight all
the game industry’s choices for professional achievement.”
The Game Developers Choice Awards voting process is overseen by the
editors of Game Developer Magazine and Gamasutra.com, the leading media
outlets for game industry professionals. All game professionals with a
Gamasutra.com user account will be able to nominate and vote in the 2008
Choice Awards.
In addition, for the purposes of picking recipients of the Ambassador,
Pioneer and Lifetime Achievement Awards following the public nominations,
and to help adjudicate on the awards process in general, the editors of
both outlets have set up an Advisory Committee of distinguished industry
veterans. They are: Bob Rafei (Naughty Dog), Brian Reynolds (Big Huge
Games), Mark Cerny (Cerny Games), John Vechey (PopCap), Susan O’Connor
(Susan O’Connor Writing Studio), Raph Koster (Areae), Julien Merceron
(Eidos), Hal Barwood (Finite Arts), Clinton Keith (High Moon Studios), Ryan
Lesser (Harmonix), Clint Hocking (Ubisoft) and Tommy Tallarico (Video Games
Live).
In addition to the Ambassador, Pioneer and Lifetime Achievement Awards,
Choice Awards will be given in the following categories:
— Best Audio
— Best Game Design
— Best Technology
— Best Visual Arts
— Best Writing
— Best Debut Game
— Best Downloadable Game
— Best Handheld Game
— Innovation
— Game of the Year
These particular categories will be both nominated and voted on by the
development community. The call for nominations period for these categories
begins December 17, 2007.
For further information and to submit a nomination for one of the three
special awards through November 30, please visit http://www.gamechoiceawards.com
About the Game Developers Conference (http://www.gdconf.com)
The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is the world’s largest
professionals-only game industry event. Presented every spring in San
Francisco, it is the essential forum for learning, inspiration, and
networking for the creators of computer, console, handheld, mobile, and
online games. The GDC attracts over 16,000 attendees, and is the primary
forum where programmers, artists, producers, game designers, audio
professionals, business decision-makers and others involved in the
development of interactive games gather to exchange ideas and shape the
future of the industry. The GDC is produced by the CMP Game Group, a
division of CMP Technology.
About CMP (http://www.cmp.com)
CMP is a marketing solutions company serving the technology industry.
Through its market-leading portfolio of trusted information brands, CMP has
earned the confidence of more technology professionals than any other media
company. As a result, CMP is the premier provider of access, insight and
actionable programs designed to connect sellers and buyers in ways that
yield superior return on investment. CMP Technology is a subsidiary of
United Business Media (http://www.unitedbusinessmedia.com), a global
provider of news distribution and specialist information services with a
market capitalization of more than $3 billion.
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