Nominees Named for Game Developers Choice Awards
Posted on February 18, 2002
The International Game Developers Association (IGDA) has announced the nominees for the annual Game Developers Choice Awards. The winners will be announced at the ceremony on March 21, during the Game Developers Conference (GDC), March 19 - 23 in San Jose, Calif. Nominations were free and open to all professional game developers, regardless of membership or affiliation.
"Every year, the Game Developers Choice Awards recognize the most innovative individuals and games in the industry," stated Warren Spector, studio director of ION Storm Austin and IGDA board member. "The nominees represent what game developers consider to be the best in game development -- the work they most admire and the efforts that are advancing the state of the art."
The Nominees
Game of the Year
- Black & White (Lionhead Studios)
- Grand Theft Auto III (DMA Design/Rockstar Games)
- Halo: Combat Evolved (Bungie Studios)
- ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)
- Max Payne (Remedy Entertainment)
- Adrenium Games for Azurik: Rise Of Perathia
- Bohemia Interactive Studio for Operation Flashpoint
- Croteam for Serious Sam
- Pseudo Interactive for Cel Damage
- TimeGate Studios for Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns
- Dante from Devil May Cry
- Daxter from Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
- Ico from Ico
- Max Payne from Max Payne
- Munch from Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
- Erik Kraber & Jack Grillo for sound design in Clive Barker's Undying
- Harry Gregson-Williams for composition in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons Of Liberty
- Josh Randall for sound design in Frequency
- Marty O'Donnell & team for sound effects in Halo: Combat Evolved
- Thomas Engel for sound engineering in Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader
- Fumito Ueda & team for game design in Ico
- GTA3 team for game play in Grand Theft Auto III
- Lorne Lanning & Chris Ulm for story/writing of Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
- Peter Molyneux & team for game design in Black & White
- Shigeru Miyamto & team for game design in Pikmin
- Craig Filshie, William Mills, Chris Rothwell & James Worrall for level design in Grand Theft Auto III
- Fumito Ueda & team for level design in Ico
- Ghost Recon team for level design in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon
- Scott Campbell, Dave Jaffe, Kellan Hatch & team for level design in Twisted Metal: Black
- Toshihiro Nagoshi & team for level design in Super Monkey Ball
- Kazunori Yamauchi & team for physics in Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec
- Andy Gavin for programming in Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
- Jason Jones & team for programming in Halo: Combat Evolved
- Richard Evans for artificial intelligence in Black & White
- Sherman Archibald, John Carmack & Ryan Feltrin for graphics in Return To Castle Wolfenstein
- Dan Arey & Evan Wells for animation in Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
- Fumito Ueda & team for art direction in Ico
- Kazunori Yamauchi & team for modeling in Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec
- Lorne Lanning & Farzad Varahramyan for art direction in Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee
- Tetsuya Mizuguchi & team for art direction in Rez
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Black & White (Lionhead Studios)
Cel Damage (Pseudo Interactive)
Frequency (Harmonix Music Systems)
Grand Theft Auto III (DMA Design)
Ico (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)
Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns (TimeGate Studios)
Majestic (Electronic Arts)
Max Payne (Remedy Entertainment)
Rez (United Game Artists)
Super Monkey Ball (Amusement Vision)
An advisory committee from the IGDA will select the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, First Penguin Award and the IGDA Award for Community Contribution. All registered GDC attendees are invited to attend the ceremony. The International Game Developers Association is a non-profit association established by game developers to foster the creation of a worldwide game development community.
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