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Nintendogs Wins at Developer Choice Awards

by Steven Rodriguez - March 23, 2006, 11:23 pm EST
Total comments: 5 Source: http://www.gamechoiceawards.com/gdca_6th.htm

The puppy powered portable picks up two awards, but two other DS games are beat out in their categories.

The sixth annual Game Developer Choice Awards were held on Wednesday night, and the winners are in. Unlike the AIAS awards, Developer Choice awards are voted on only by game developers.

Nintendogs won the award in the Best Technology category, and also picked up a special Innovation Award. It was also nominated for Game Design, but lost to the night's big winner, Shadow of the Colossus for the PS2. SotC won five awards in total, including Best Game.

Other Nintendo titles nominated for awards included Electroplankton for Best Audio, and Animal Crossing for Best Game. Neither won an award.

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INNOVATORS DAVID JAFFE, TIM SCHAFER AND FUMITO UEDA DOMINATE LIST

OF NOMINEES FOR 6TH ANNUAL GAME DEVELOPERS CHOICE AWARDS

"God of War" Leads With Six Nominations, "Shadow of the Colossus" Garners Five;

"Guitar Hero," "Project Gotham Racing 3" and "Psychonauts" Tie With Three Nods

Each

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. - Feb. 27, 2006 - Sony Computer Entertainment's "God of

War" and "Shadow of the Colossus" lead the list of nominated games for the 6th

annual Game Developers Choice Awards, receiving six and five nominations, respectively.

"Guitar Hero," "Project Gotham Racing 3" and "Psychonauts" follow close behind

with three nods.

The ceremony, produced and hosted by the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and

presented by the International Game Developers Association (IGDA), is the only

peer-based, open nomination awards program in the industry where honors are bestowed

to developers by developers. Recipients will be announced during the GDC, slated

for March 20-24, 2006 in San Jose, Calif.

"Recognizing and showcasing individual achievement in the creation of games is

a core principle of the GDC," Jamil Moledina, director, Game Developers Conference,

said. "For that reason, we are proud to produce and host the Choice Awards."

The ceremony will take place Wednesday, March 22 at 6:30p.m. at the San Jose

Civic Auditorium.

"Every year, thousands of nominations are submitted by developers from around

the world," Jason Della Rocca, executive director, IGDA, said. "Voting on the

final recipients will be extremely competitive, and who can spot excellence and

creative achievement better than the creators themselves?"

Nominations were free of charge and open to all IGDA members, ensuring that the

nominees reflect the international development community's opinions. The IGDA

membership will vote on the finalists.

The 6th annual Game Developer Choice Awards are supported by Platinum Sponsor

Motorola and Gold Sponsor AGEIA. In addition to the voted award categories,

honors will be presented for the Lifetime Achievement, First Penguin, Community

Contribution, Maverick and Innovation awards.

For more information about the Game Developers Choice Awards, check out www.gamechoiceawards.com.

The complete list of nominees is:

Best Game

Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)

- Katsuya Eguchi, Hisashi Nogami, Takashi Tezuka, Kazumi Totaka

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- David Jaffe, Shannon Studstill

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)

- Rob Kay, Greg LoPiccolo, Alex Rigopulos

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

- Kenji Kaido, Yasuhide Kobayashi, Fumito Ueda

The Movies (Lionhead Studios / Activision)

- Gary Carr, Peter Molyneux, Mark Webley

Audio

Call of Duty 2 (Infinity Ward / Activision)

- Mark Ganus

Electroplankton (Nintendo)

- Toshio Iwai, Koichi Kyuma, Yuichi Ozaki

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- Dave Murrant

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)

- Eric Brosius, Kasson Crooker

Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)

- Nick Bygrave, Guy Whitmore, Nick Wiswell

Character Design

City of Villains (Cryptic Studios / NCsoft Corporation)

- Ocala Bellows Kulig, Ryan Butts, Jay Doherty, Jeremy Mattson

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- David Jaffe, Terry Smith, Charlie Wen

Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath (Oddworld Inhabitants / Electronic Arts)

- Lorne Lanning, Rich McKain, Iain Morton, Raymond Swanland

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)

- Scott Campbell

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

- Atsuko Fukuyama, Hitoshi Niwa, Shunpei Suzuki, Fumito Ueda

Game Design

Animal Crossing: Wild World (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)

- Katsuya Eguchi, Hisashi Nogami, Takashi Tezuka, Kazumi Totaka

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- David Jaffe

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)

- Tsutomu Kaneshige, Hideki Konno, Shigeru Miyamoto, Kiyoshi Mizuki

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)

- Erik Robson, Tim Schafer

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

- Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda

Technology

Battlefield 2: Modern Combat (Digital Illusions / Electronic Arts)

- Fred Gill, Måns Vestin

Guitar Hero (Harmonix Music Systems / RedOctane)

- Eran Egozy, Eric Malafeew, Phil Winston

Nintendogs (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)

- Tsutomu Kaneshige

Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)

- Edmund Clay, Roger Perkins, Phil Teschner, Ian Wilson

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

- Jinji Horagai, Takuya Seki, Hajime Sugiyama, Masanobu Tanaka

Visual Arts

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- Steve Caterson, Terry Smith, Charlie Wen

Project Gotham Racing 3 (Bizarre Creations / Microsoft Game Studios)

- Gren Atherton, Julie McGurren, Peter Roe, Kiki Wolfkill

Resident Evil 4 (Capcom Production Studio 4 / Capcom Entertainment)

- Yusuke Hashimoto, Yoshiaki Hirabayashi, Yusuke Kan, Masaki Yamanaka

Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)

- Koji Hasegawa, Hironobu Nakano, Masanori Kajita, Fumito Ueda

We Love Katamari (Namco Limited / Namco Hometek)

- Keita Takahashi, Takeshi Ugajin

Writing

Freedom Force vs. The 3rd Reich (Irrational Games / Vivendi Universal Games)

- Ken Levine

God of War (Sony Computer Entertainment America)

- David Jaffe, Marianne Krawcyzk, Alex Stein

Indigo Prophecy (Quantic Dream / Atari)

- David Cage

Jade Empire (BioWare Corp. / Microsoft Game Studios)

- Drew Karpyshyn, Brian Kindregan, Luke Kristjanson, Mike Laidlaw, Peter Thomas,

Mac Walters

Psychonauts (Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment Company)

- Tim Schafer, Erik Wolpaw

New Studio

ArenaNet (Guild Wars)

- Mike O'Brien, Jeff Strain, Patrick Wyatt

Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts)

- Caroline Esmurdoc, Tim Schafer

New Crayon Games (Bonnie's Bookstore)

- Phil Steinmeyer

TellTale Games (Bone: Out From Boneville)

- David Bogan, Kevin Bruner, Dan Connors, Troy Molander

Wideload Games (Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse)

- Alexander Seropian

Talkback

ArtimusMarch 23, 2006

Again I refuse to take seriously any awards body that can't properly award the second best reviewed game of this generation (on either platform).

Hostile CreationMarch 23, 2006

I wonder if Shadow of the Colossus is actually good or something.

NephilimMarch 24, 2006

funny how guitar hero keeps winning "Innovation" awards, these Industry people need to hang out at arcades more... geez

KDR_11kMarch 24, 2006

Artimus: These are developers, they honour innovation. And they see SOTC on the PS2 as more impressive than RE4 on the GC technologically, mostly because all of them have suffered through the pain of developing for the PS2.

Hostile CreationMarch 24, 2006

"funny how guitar hero keeps winning "Innovation" awards, these Industry people need to hang out at arcades more... geez"

I was thinking the same thing. I played Guitar Freak in Gameware well over a year ago.

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