{"id":33763,"date":"2012-03-08T13:14:52","date_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:14:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=33763"},"modified":"2012-03-08T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2012-03-08T11:19:22","slug":"game-developers-choice-awards-and-the-winners-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/33763-game-developers-choice-awards-and-the-winners-are","title":{"rendered":"Game Developers Choice Awards: And the winners are&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Game Developers Conference week which means it&#8217;s also Game Developers Choice Awards week. The games are played, the nominations are in, the votes are counted, the bribes are banked, and the winners are&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Technically, Portal 2 won the show with three awards, including Best Game Design, Best Audio, and Best Narrative, but The Elder Scrolls: Skyrim is the one game to rule them all, with the prestigious Game of the Year award.<\/p>\n<p>Indie sweetheart Bastion nabbed the Best Downloadable Game award, with dev Supergiant Games also winning a Best Debut award for making the game in the first place. I&#8217;m sure a lot of proud moms cried.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_23969\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23969\" class=\" wp-image-23969\" title=\"Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861.jpg 800w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/Bastion_screenshot_6_990351861-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-23969\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bastion<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The full list of winners includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Best Game Design<\/strong>: Portal 2 (Valve)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Innovation<\/strong>: Johann Sebastian Joust (Die Gute Fabrik)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Technology<\/strong>: Battlefield 3 (DICE)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Handheld\/Mobile Game<\/strong>: Superbrothers: Sword &amp; Sorcery EP (Capy Games\/Superbrothers)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Audio<\/strong>: Portal 2 (Valve)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Downloadable Game<\/strong>: Bastion (Supergiant Games)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Narrative<\/strong>: Portal 2 (Valve)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Debut<\/strong>: Supergiant Games (Bastion)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Best Visual Arts<\/strong>: Uncharted 3: Drake&#8217;s Deception (Naughty Dog)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Game of the Year<\/strong>: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (Bethesda Game Studios)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Lifetime Achievement Award<\/strong>: Warren Spector<\/li>\n<li><strong>2012 Pioneer Award: <\/strong>Dave Theurer (Missile Command, Tempest and I, Robot creator)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Ambassador Award Winner<\/strong>: Ken Doroshow and Paul M. Smith<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/164945\/Skyrim_wins_Game_of_the_Year_at_GDC_Awards.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gamasutra<\/a><\/h5>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><a title=\"Game Developers Conference 2012 kicks off\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33629-game-developers-conference-2012-kicks-off.html\"><strong>Game Developers Conference 2012 kicks off<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"PSA: Desktop Dungeons is free this week\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/33605-psa-desktop-dungeons-is-free-this-week.html\"><strong>PSA: Desktop Dungeons is free this week<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wait, the envelope is stuck&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":30252,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[31,2644,2563],"class_list":["post-33763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-active","tag-game-developer-choice-award","tag-gdc-2012"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33767,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33763\/revisions\/33767"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}