GAME DEV CHOICE AWARDS TOPPED BY LITTLEBIGPLANET, BRAID, LEFT 4 DEAD
GDC organizers Think Services have announced the finalists for its recently mentioned Tim Schafer-hosted Game Developers Choice Awards show, with Media Molecule’s LittleBigPlanet topping the list with seven nominations across its various categories, including best design, art, best debut, innovation and game of the year.
Xbox Live Arcade time-shifting puzzler Braid is the second most nominated game with five, followed by a tie between Left 4 Dead and Fallout 3. Other nominations of interest: World of Goo for best downloadable, debut, and innovation, Mekensleep’s best debut Soul Bubbles, and Patapon and Echochrome for best handheld.
Hit the jump for the full list of nominees for the March 25th GDC-related ceremony.The complete list of nominees:
Best Game Design
Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal)
Braid (Number None)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Best Visual Art
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
Prince Of Persia (Ubisoft Montreal)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Gears Of War 2 (Epic Games)
Best Technology
Spore (Maxis)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Gears Of War 2 (Epic Games)
Best Writing
Far Cry 2 (Ubisoft Montreal)
Braid (Number None)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
Best Audio
Dead Space (EA Redwood Shores)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Metal Gear Solid 4 (Kojima Productions)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
Gears Of War 2 (Epic Games)
Best Debut
Braid (Number None)
Sins Of A Solar Empire (Ironclad Games)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
World Of Goo (2D Boy)
Soul Bubbles (Mekensleep)
Innovation
Spore (Maxis)
World Of Goo (2D Boy)
Boom Blox (EA Los Angeles)
Braid (Number None)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Best Handheld
Patapon (Pyramid/SCE Japan)
Advance Wars: Days Of Ruin (Intelligent Systems)
God Of War: Chains Of Olympus (Ready At Dawn Studios)
Echochrome (SCE Japan)
The World Ends With You (Jupiter/Square Enix)
Best Downloadable Game
Castle Crashers (The Behemoth)
Braid (Number None)
World Of Goo (2D Boy)
N+ (Metanet/Slick Entertainment)
Pixeljunk Eden (Q-Games)
Game of the Year
Fable 2 (Lionhead Studios)
LittleBigPlanet (Media Molecule)
Fallout 3 (Bethesda Game Studios)
Left 4 Dead (Valve Software)
Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar North)
Previously:
Tim Schafer returns to GDC Choice Awards, Harmonix honored – Offworld
The Offworld Guide to the 2009 Independent Games Festival – Offworld
Fieldrunners, Edge top 2009 IGF Mobile finalists – Offworld
Unfinished Swan, Feist make IGF Student Showcase finals – Offworld
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