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Game Developers Choice Awards 2014 Thread: Watch Live March 19, 2014

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ckohler

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Wednesday, March 19, 2014 - 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Official Website | GDC ’14 Website | 2013 Ceremony Archive Video

The Game Developers Choice Awards are one of the premier accolades for peer-recognition in the video game industry, celebrating creativity, artistry and technological genius. Industry professionals from around the world nominate for the awards, free of charge, ensuring that the recipients reflect the community's opinions. Awards in 13 categories will be given at the ceremony produced by the UBM Tech Game Network’s Game Developers Conference® (GDC) and supported by Gamasutra.com.

The gala event, held in conjunction with the Independent Games Festival (click for nominees), will be hosted in San Francisco’s Moscone Convention Center.

Date and time
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The IGF Awards ceremony will be first followed by the GDC Awards.

Watch Live
Twitch.tv - gamespot.com

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Host
Hosting the Choice Awards for the first time is Abbie Heppe, longtime game journalist and current Community Manager for Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall).

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Lifetime Achievement Winner
Ken Kutaragi
Kutaragi is known as "The Father of the PlayStation", and its successors and spinoffs, including the PlayStation 2, PlayStation Portable, and the PlayStation 3 and in some extent developing in 2012 PlayStation Vita and in 2013 PlayStation 4. The Lifetime Achievement Award recognizes the career and achievements of a developer who has made an indelible impact on the craft of game development and games as a whole.

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Pioneer Award Winner
Brandon Beck and Marc Merrill
Through their combined leadership, Marc and Brandon have grown Riot's debut title, League of Legends, into a game that's played by over 27million players every day and by over 67 million players every month. These players spend over a billion hours a month in the game, a level of engagement that makes League of Legends the most played video game in the world by hours played. The Pioneer Award celebrates those individuals who developed a breakthrough technology, game concept, or gameplay design at a crucial juncture video game history - paving the way for the myriads who followed them.

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Ambassador Award Winner
Anita Sarkeesian
A media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency a video webseries that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Her work focuses on deconstructing the stereotypes, patterns and tropes associated with women in popular culture as well as highlighting issues surrounding the targeted harassment of women in online and gaming spaces. The Ambassador Award honors an individual or individuals who have 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 and help further our art.

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Game of the Year
  • Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
  • The Last Of Us (Naughty Dog/Sony) - WINNER
  • Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix)
  • Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
  • Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo)
Honorable Mentions: The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo), Papers, Please (Lucas Pope), The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe), Tearaway (Media Molecule/Sony).

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Innovation Award
  • DEVICE 6 (Simogo)
  • Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
  • Papers, Please (Lucas Pope) - WINNER
  • Tearaway (Media Molecule/Sony)
  • The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)
Honorable Mentions: Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons (Starbreeze/505 Games), Candy Box (Aniwey), Kerbal Space Program (Squad), The Last Of Us (Naughty Dog/Sony), Proteus (Ed Key/David Kanaga).

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Best Audio
  • BioShock Infinite (Irrational Games/2K Games) - WINNER
  • Forza Motorsport 5 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Games)
  • Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
  • Saints Row IV (Volition/Deep Silver)
  • Tearaway (Media Molecule/Sony)
Honorable Mentions: Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo), Battlefield 4 (DICE/Electronic Arts), Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Gone Home (The Fullbright Company), Metro: Last Light (4A Games/Deep Silver).

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Best Debut
  • Blue Manchu (Card Hunter)
  • The Fullbright Company (Gone Home) - WINNER
  • Galactic Cafe (The Stanley Parable)
  • Squad (Kerbal Space Program)
  • Undead Labs (State Of Decay)
Honorable Mentions: Facepalm Games (The Swapper), Frogmind Games (Badland), Grinding Gear Games (Path Of Exile), Suspicious Developments (Gunpoint), Warner Bros. Games Montreal (Batman: Arkham Origins).

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Best Downloadable Game
  • Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons (Starbreeze/505 Games)
  • Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
  • Papers, Please (Lucas Pope) - WINNER
  • Resogun (Housemarque/Sony)
  • The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)
Honorable Mentions: Guacamelee (DrinkBox Studios), Gunpoint (Suspicious Developments), State Of Decay (Undead Labs), SteamWorld Dig (Image & Form), TowerFall (Matt Thorson/Miniboss/Alec Holowka), The Wolf Among Us (Telltale Games).

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Best Design
  • Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games)
  • The Last Of Us (Naughty Dog/Sony) - WINNER
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo)
  • Super Mario 3D World (Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo)
  • Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix)
Honorable Mentions: DOTA 2 (Valve) Pokemon X & Y (Game Freak/Nintendo), Rogue Legacy (Cellar Door Games), The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe), SteamWorld Dig (Image & Form), TowerFall (Matt Thorson/Miniboss/Alec Holowka).

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Best Handheld/Mobile Game
  • DEVICE 6 (Simogo)
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening (Intelligent Systems/Nintendo)
  • The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo) - WINNER
  • Ridiculous Fishing (Vlambeer)
  • Tearaway (Media Molecule/Sony)
Honorable Mentions: Animal Crossing: New Leaf (Nintendo EAD/Nintendo), 868-HACK (Michael Brough), Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Next Level Games/Nintendo), Plants Vs. Zombies 2 (PopCap/Electronic Arts), The Room Two (Fireproof Games), SteamWorld Dig (Image & Form).

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Best Narrative
  • Brothers: A Tale Of Two Sons (Starbreeze/505 Games)
  • Gone Home (The Fullbright Company)
  • The Last Of Us (Naughty Dog/Sony) - WINNER
  • Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix)
  • The Stanley Parable (Galactic Cafe)
Honorable Mentions: Attack Of The Friday Monsters (Millennium Kitchen/Level 5), BioShock Infinite (Irrational Games/2K Games), The Cave (DoubleFine Games), Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch (Level 5/Namco Bandai), Shadowrun Returns (Harebrained Schemes).

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Best Technology
  • Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
  • Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games) - WINNER
  • The Last Of Us (Naughty Dog/Sony)
  • Killzone: Shadow Fall (Guerrilla Games/Sony)
  • Tearaway (Media Molecule/Sony)
Honorable Mentions: Battlefield 4 (DICE/Electronic Arts), DOTA 2 (Valve), Forza Motorsport 5 (Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Games), Metro: Last Light (4A Games/Deep Silver), Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics/Square Enix).

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Best Visual Art
  • BioShock Infinite (Irrational Games/2K Games) - WINNER
  • DmC: Devil May Cry (Ninja Theory/Capcom)
  • The Last Of Us (Naughty Dog/Sony)
  • Ni No Kuni: Wrath Of The White Witch (Level 5/Namco Bandai)
  • Tearaway (Media Molecule/Sony)
Honorable Mentions: Don't Starve (Klei Entertaintment), Grand Theft Auto V (Rockstar North/Rockstar Games), Papers, Please (Lucas Pope), Puppeteer (SCE Japan/Sony), Ryse: Son Of Rome (Crytek/Microsoft), Wonderful 101 (Platinum Games/Nintendo).

Audience Award
Kerbal Space Program (Squad)
 
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RagnarokX

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Tomb Raider nominated for Game of the Year, Best Design, and Best Narrative? Wow. 2013 must have been a terrible year.
 
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Silky

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The Last Of Us to do yet another clean sweep.

Why the fuck is it in the best Visual Art design? As far as destroyed beauty goes? It's pretty weak.
 
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wildfire

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Heppe's pretty cool but she can't top the host from the BAFTA awards a couple of weeks ago. The draw for me is to see what the development community picks.
 
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Zia

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Don't forget the IGF awards, which take place right before this.

Excited, but hope the production is better than it was last, which were the worst GDC / IGF ceremonies I've seen in a few years.
 
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BY2K

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Ambassador Award Winner
Anita Sarkeesian
A media critic and the creator of Feminist Frequency a video webseries that explores the representations of women in pop culture narratives. Her work focuses on deconstructing the stereotypes, patterns and tropes associated with women in popular culture as well as highlighting issues surrounding the targeted harassment of women in online and gaming spaces. The Ambassador Award honors an individual or individuals who have 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 and help further our art.
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I have nothing against her, but I very much doubt she achieved that.
 
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Toxi

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LOL Bioshock Infinite not being nominated for best narrative. That's gotta sting.

I don't really agree with a lot of the nominations, but I'll see how it goes.
Silky said:
Why the fuck is it in the best Visual Art design? As far as destroyed beauty goes? It's pretty weak.
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I liked the design of the Clickers. Other than that, not exactly sure.
 
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cameron

Member
Both Tearaway and TLoU have 5 nominations. It might be another BAFTA situation.

Bioshock losing a narrative nomination to TR... hahahaha.
 
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BY2K

Membero Americo
Look at dem all Tearaway nominations!

Seriously, this and The Last of Us have the most nominations, 5.

Which is funny, both came from Sony, both are critically acclaimed, but one sold like hot cakes, the other bombed like nothing else.
 
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ckohler

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I was checking and it looks like the IGF Awards will be part of this event and will start at 6:30 PM and probably run for about an hour with the GDC Awards following afterwards. I think it'll be one ceremony for both sets of awards.

The schedule for both events on the GCD website say they both start at 6:30 PM so I think they've just rolled both events together with the IGF going first.
 
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hawk2025

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Happy to see Anita getting recognized, and I do think she helped open up a huge discussion in the industry. An important one.

I question the quality of the initial video (if one was bored enough, you could probably find that in my post history), but they have been getting progressively better and on point -- a shame they take so long to come out.
 
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FACE

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The Pioneer Award celebrates those individuals who developed a breakthrough technology, game concept, or gameplay design at a crucial juncture video game history
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Then shouldn't this award go to the guy who created Aeon of Strife? Or Eul? Or Guinsoo?
 
molnizzle

molnizzle

Member
Yeah... Tomb Raider with a GOTY nomination, fine. But Best Narrative? Come on now, dev bros.

TLOU will sweep.
 
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