2008 Recipients
The recipients of the 8th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards are:
2007 Best Game Design
Portal (Valve)
Kim Swift, Realm Lovejoy, Paul Graham
2007 Best Visual Art
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James
2007 Best Technology
Crysis (Crytek/Electronic Arts)
Cevat Yerli, Douglas Binks, Timur Davidenko, Martin Mittring
2007 Best Writing
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Ken Levine, Emily Ridgway, Joe McDonagh, Susan O’Connor
2007 Best Audio
BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)
Eric Brosius, Pat Balthrop, Emily Ridgway, Justin Mullins
2007 Best Debut
Crackdown (Real Time Worlds / Microsoft Game Studios)
Ramon Gonzalez, Violetta Sanchez, Rafael Diaz, Jose Guerra
2007 Innovation
Portal (Valve)
Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw
2007 Best Handheld Game
The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo / Nintendo)
Eiji Aonuma
2007 Best Downloadable Game
Flow (thatgamecompany / Sony Computer Entertainment)
Kellee Santiago, Jenova Chen, Martin Middleton, Hao Cui, John Edwards, Nick Clark
2007 Game of the Year
Portal (Valve)
Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw
2008 Special Awards Recipients
These three special honors, selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards advisory board, will be presented at the ceremony.
Lifetime Achievement
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.- Sid Meier
Pioneer Award
The Pioneer Award (formerly known as the First Penguin 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.- Ralph Baer
Ambassador Award
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.- Jason Della Rocca
2008 Nominees
In addition to the Ambassador, Pioneer and Lifetime Achievement Awards, Choice Awards will be given in the following categories below. These particular categories will be both nominated and voted on by the development community.
Game of the Year
The Game of the Year Award recognizes the choice of game developers for the overall best game release during 2007.- BioShock
- Call of Duty 4
- Portal
- Rock Band
- Super Mario Galaxy
Best Writing
The Best Writing Award recognizes the overall excellence of storytelling in a game - including, but not limited to, art direction, animation, modeling, character design, texture creation, and so on.- Portal
- God of War II
- Mass Effect
- Half-Life 2: Episode 2
- BioShock
Best Game Design
The Best Game Design Award recognizes the overall excellence of design in a game - including, but not limited to, gameplay mechanics, playability, play balancing, and level design.- BioShock
- Call of Duty 4
- Mass Effect
- Portal
- Super Mario Galaxy
Best Technology
The Best Technology Award recognizes the overall excellence of technology in a game - including, but not limited to, graphics programming, artificial intelligence, networking, and physics.- Halo 3
- Crysis
- Call of Duty 4
- Portal
- Assassin's Creed
Best Visual Arts
The Best Visual Arts Award recognizes the overall excellence of visual art in a game - including, but not limited to, art direction, animation, modeling, character design, texture creation, and so on.- Assassin's Creed
- Team Fortress 2
- Crysis
- BioShock
- Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Best Debut Game
The Best Debut Game Award recognizes the game from any development studio which released its first publicly available title in the year 2007.- Crackdown (Realtime Worlds)
- flOw (ThatGameCompany)
- The Witcher (CD Projekt)
- Everyday Shooter (Queasy Games)
- Aquaria (Bit Blot)
Innovation Award
The Innovation Award recognizes the single game that demonstrates true innovation, advances the state of the art, and pushes the boundaries of games as an expressive medium.- Rock Band
- Portal
- flOw
- Peggle
- Mass Effect
Best Handheld Game
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of The Warlords
- The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
- Phase
- Contra 4
- Peggle (for iPod)
Best Audio
- Call of Duty 4
- Everyday Shooter
- BioShock
- God of War II
- Mass Effect
Best Downloadable Game
- Pac-Man Championship Edition
- Everyday Shooter
- Peggle
- Puzzle Quest: Challenge of The Warlords (XBLA version)
- Flow
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