Best Game Design Archive
The Game Design award recognizes the overall excellence of design in a game - including, but not limited to, gameplay mechanics, puzzles, play balancing, scenarios, etc.
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Recipient
Portal 2 (Valve)
- Valve Team
Nominees
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)
The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (Nintendo)
Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady Studios)
Dark Souls (FromSoftware) |
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Recipient
Red Dead Redemption (Rockstar San Diego)
- Rockstar San Diego Team
Nominees
Super Mario Galaxy 2 (Nintendo)
Mass Effect 2 (BioWare)
Limbo (Playdead)
God of War III (SCE Santa Monica)
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Recipient
Batman: Arkham Asylum (Rocksteady)
- Sefton Hill, Ian Ball
Nominees
Assassin's Creed II (Ubisoft Montreal)
- Patrick Plourde
Flower (Thatgamecompany)
- Jenova Chen, Nick Clark
Uncharted 2 (Naughty Dog)
- Jenova Chen, Nick Clark
Plants Vs. Zombies (PopCap)
- George Fan, Tod Semple, Sukhbir Sidhu, Jason Kapalka |
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Recipient
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
- Mark Healey, David Smith
Nominees
Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal)
Braid (Number None)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
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Recipient
Portal (Valve)
- Kim Swift, Realm Lovejoy, Paul Graham
Nominees
BioShock (2K Boston / 2K Australia / 2K Games)
- Paul Hellquist, Bill Gardner
Call of Duty 4 (Infinity Ward / Activision)
- Jason West, Grant Collier, Vince Zampella
Mass Effect (Bioware / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Casey Hudson, Preston Watamaniuk
Super Mario Galaxy (Nintendo EAD / Nintendo)
- Yoshiaki Koizumi
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Recipient
Wii Sports (Nintendo)
- Keizo Ohta, Takayuki Shimamura, Yoshiaki Yamashita
Nominees
Bully (Rockstar Vancouver / Rockstar Games)
- Hideki Kamiya
Okami (Clover Studio / Capcom Entertainment)
- David Jaffe
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (Bethesda Game Studios / 2K Games/Bethesda Softworks)
- Todd Howard
Viva Piñata (Rare / Microsoft Game Studios)
- Justin Cook, Gregg Mayles
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Recipient
Shadow of the Colossus (Sony Computer Entertainment Inc.)
- Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda
Nominees
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
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Recipient
Katamari Damacy (Namco)
- Keita Takahashi
Nominees
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Rockstar North / Rockstar Games)
- Leslie Benzies, Adam Fowler, Aaron Garbut, Sam Houser, Alexander Roger, Obbe Vermeij
Half-Life 2 (Valve Software / Vivendi Universal Games)
- Gabe Newell, Jay Stelly
Pikmin 2 (Nintendo)
- Masamichi Abe, Hino Shigefumi
World of Warcraft (Blizzard Entertainment)
- Chris Metzen, Rob Pardo
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Recipient
David Chateauneuf, Patrice Desilets, Jordan Mechner and team for game design in PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME
Nominees
Michel Ancel, Jacques Exertier, Frederic Houde, and Sebastien Morin for game design in BEYOND GOOD & EVIL
The Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando team for game design in RATCHET & CLANK: GOING COMMANDO
Casey Hudson, James Ohlen and team for game design in STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC
Goro Abe, Hirofumi Matsuoka, Kazuyoshi Ohsawa and Ko Takeuchi for game design in WARIOWARE INC.: MEGA MICROGAME$
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Recipient
Romain de Waubert de Genlis and Team for game design in BATTLEFIELD 1942
Nominees
GTA Team for game design in GRAND THEFT AUTO: VICE CITY
Metroid Team for game design in METROID PRIME
Satoru Iwata, Yoshiaki Koizumi, Shigeru Miyamoto, Takashi Tezuka and Kenta Usui for game design in SUPER MARIO SUNSHINE
Splinter Cell Team Leaders for game design in TOM CLANCY'S SPLINTER CELL
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Recipient
GTA3 team for game play in GRAND THEFT AUTO III
Nominees
Fumito Ueda & team for game design in ICO
Lorne Lanning & Chris Ulm for story/writing in ODDWORLD: MUNCH'S ODDYSEE
Peter Molyneux & team for game design in BLACK & WHITE
Shigeru Miyamto & team for game design in PIKMIN
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Recipient
Harvey Smith & Warren Spector for game design in DEUS EX
Nominees
Sean Clark & Michael Stemmle for puzzles in ESCAPE FROM MONKEY ISLAND
Shigeru Miyamoto & Eiji Aonuma for gameplay in LEGEND OF ZELDA: MAJORA'S MASK
Ragnar Tornquist for story in THE LONGEST JOURNEY
Neversoft Entertainment for gameplay in TONY HAWK'S PRO SKATER 2
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