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4th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

Congratulations to all recipients and nominees! The recipients were announced at a ceremony during the 2004 Game Developers Conference.

 

Nominees & Awards Recipients

Each award recipient is highlighted in yellow.

 

Four special honors, selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards advisory board, were also presented at the ceremony.

 

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Mark Cerny: Production genius and master collaborator on such successes as arcade classic Marble Madness, and the Crash Bandicoot and Ratchet & Clank series.

 

First Penguin Award

• Masaya Matsuura: A pioneer of beat-rhythm games, with groundbreaking titles like Parappa the Rapper and Um Jammer Lammy.

 

Maverick Award

• Brian Fiete, Jason Kapalka and John Vechey: The founders of PopCap Games for bringing casual gaming to mainstream audiences.

 

IGDA Award for Community Contribution

• Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk: The joint CEOs of BioWare Corp., they contribute to both the developer community and charities at large.

 

	Game of the Year STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC (BioWare Corp.) BEYOND GOOD & EVIL (Ubisoft Pictures) CALL OF DUTY (Infinity Ward) PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (Ubisoft Montreal) THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER (Nintendo EAD)

 

 

	Original Game Character of the Year HK-47 from STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC Glitch from METAL ARMS: GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM Jade from BEYOND GOOD & EVIL Joe from VIEWTIFUL JOE Vince from VOODOO VINCE

 

 

	Rookie Studio of the Year Infinity Ward for CALL OF DUTY Big Huge Games for RISE OF NATIONS eGenesis for A TALE IN THE DESERT S2 Games LLC for SAVAGE: THE BATTLE FOR NEWERTH Swingin' Ape Studios for METAL ARMS: GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM

 

 

Excellence in Audio Chuck Russom for sound effects in CALL OF DUTY Koji Igarashi and Ms. Michiru Yamane for composition in CASTLEVANIA: LAMENT OF INNOCENCE David Henry and Stan LePard for composition in CRIMSON SKIES: HIGH ROAD TO REVENGE Laurent Betbeder, Paul Gorman, Howard Shore, Charles Stockley, and Don Veca for composition in THE LORD OF THE RINGS: RETURN OF THE KING Christopher L. Clanin and Tim Larkin for sound design in URU: AGES BEYOND MYST

 

 

Excellence in Game Design David Chateauneuf, Patrice Desilets, Jordan Mechner and team for game design in PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME 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$

 

 

 

	Excellence in Programming Dominic Couture, Feng Quan Wang and team for graphics programming in PRINCE OF PERSIA : THE SANDS OF TIME Jak II team for programming in JAK II Kim Salo, Markus Stein and Olli Tervo for physics programming in MAX PAYNE 2: THE FALL OF MAX PAYNE David Worswick for network programming in PROJECT GOTHAM RACING 2 Mike Rayner, Jon Spencer and team for programming in SSX 3

 

 

 

Excellence in Visual Arts Masanao Arimoto, Yoshiki Haruhana, and Satoru Takizawa for art direction in THE LEGEND OF ZELDA: THE WIND WAKER Mickael Labat, Raphael Lacoste, Celine Tellier and team for art direction in PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME Akira Yamaoka for art direction in SILENT HILL 3 Eric Kohler and team for art direction in TRON 2.0 Atsushi Inaba, Hideki Kamiya and team for art direction in VIEWTIFUL JOE

 

 

Excellence in Writing David Gaider, Drew Karpyshyn, Luke Kristjanson, and Peter Thomas for writing in STAR WARS: KNIGHTS OF THE OLD REPUBLIC Michel Ancel and Jacques Exertier for writing in BEYOND GOOD & EVIL Charles Cecil, Steve Ince, Neil Richards, and Tony Warriner for writing in BROKEN SWORD: THE SLEEPING DRAGON Sheldon Pacotti and Sarah Paetsch for writing in DEUS EX: INVISIBLE WAR Takehiro Izushi for writing in FIRE EMBLEM

 

 

	Game Innovation Spotlights EYETOY: PLAY (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) VIEWTIFUL JOE (Capcom) WARIOWARE INC.: MEGA MICROGAME$ (Nintendo)

 

 

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Photos

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Press Releases

• IGDA Announces Recipients of 2004 Game Developers Choice Awards (March 25th, 2004)
• Nominees Named for Game Developers Choice Awards (February 25th, 2004)
• Game Developers Choice Awards to Honor Founders of PopCap Games, Game Music Pioneer Masaya Matsuura, BioWare CEOs (February 24th, 2004)
• Production Genius Mark Cerny to Receive IGDA's Lifetime Achievement Award at 4th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (February 9th, 2004)
• Nominations Open for 4th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards (January 7th, 2004)