Game Developers Choice Online Awards
GDC Online is getting its own awards, specific to online games! This builds on the Game Developers Choice Awards that have been given for the last ten years at the main GDC.
The award ceremony will honor the accomplishments of the sometimes overlooked creators and operators of online video games – from large-scale MMOs through free-to-play titles to social network games. Awards span excellence in live services, technology, game updates, online game design, and more.
via Game Developers Choice Online Awards official site
Game development professionals with a Gamasutra.com account can submit nominations in a bunch of categories. A big thing in the awards is that they recognize live operations as well as launches, so the categories include:
- Best Online Game Design Award
- Audience Award
- Best Online Visual Arts Award
- Best Community Relations Award
- Best Online Technical Award
- Best Social Network Game Award
- Best Audio for an Online Game Award
- Best New Online Game Award
- Best Live Game Award
There are also a couple of special awards: an Online Game Legend award recognizing an individual and their career; and a Hall of Fame Award for a game.
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I guess this out does my Developer Appeciation Week (DAW) awards. Where I might add, you got the Lifetime Achievement Award. It is cool to reconize the hard work people do.
Best Online Visual Arts Award – World of Warcraft
Best Community Relations Award – Riot Games
Best Online Technical Award – CCP
Best Social Network Game Award – Linden Labs?
Best Audio for an Online Game Award – Blizzard Entertainment
Best New Online Game Award – League of Legends
Best Live Game Award – World of Warcraft
Wow the consistency of whether I used game titles or company names is full of fail.
Ah, so the nominations are based on what developers think is a great game, not on whether they actually are viewed as great games by players/critics… Odd.
Kind of like having politicians rating which country is the best to live in…
Ola, that is in line with the other major craft awards such as the Oscars, Emmys, and Grammys, as well as the AIAS awards. There are varying degrees of exclusivity to the lists of who can vote in all those… in the AIAS case, it is Academy members only, whereas in the case of these, it is a much broader group.
The conference is developer-centric, so it makes sense to me that the awards are as well. Should PAX do awards, I am sure they would be quite different since that is a player-centric event.
Scarybooster, thanks for that. 🙂 I don’t remember if I said that at the time!
The blog post you wrote is gone though 🙁
@raph: Sure, but online games are rather time consuming. It´s not like you get involve yourself deeply with many of them while keeping your day job… But yeah, I am puzzled by the social standing of the other awards also as they too frequently ends up with “most marketed that doesn´t suck” as a winner.
It´s not like you get involve yourself deeply with many of them while keeping your day job… so it makes sense to me that the awards are as well. I am sure they would be quite different since that is a player-centric event.
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