Two award ceremonies of GDC 2017 have found the winners.
The winners of the 17th annual Game Developers Choice Awards and the 19th annual Independent Games Festival have been announced. Overwatch has become Game of the Year at the Game Developers Choice Awards, while Quadrilateral Cowboy took Seumas McNally Grand Prize at the IGF. But who are the other winners?
Both ceremonies were a part of GDC 2017, featuring several categories for games to battle. Take a look at the full list of Game Developers Choice Awards winners:
Best Audio Inside (Playdead)
Best Debut Campo Santo (Firewatch)
Best Design Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
Best Mobile/Handheld Game Pokemon Go (Niantic)
Innovation Award No Man’s Sky (Hello Games)
Best Narrative Firewatch (Campo Santo)
Best Technology Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Naughty Dog)
Best Visual Art Inside (Playdead)
Best VR/AR Game Job Simulator: The 2050 Archives (Owlchemy Labs)
Audience Award Battlefield 1 (EA DICE)
Game of the Year Overwatch (Blizzard Entertainment)
Pioneer Award Jordan Mechner (Prince of Persia creator)
Ambassador Award Mark DeLoura (formerly of Nintendo, Sony, THQ, and Ubisoft)
Lifetime Achievement Award Tim Sweeney (Epic Games founder)
At the IGF Awards, Ladykiller in a Bind showed to be excellent in narrative, while Quadrilateral Cowboy from Blendo Games won the Excellence in Design. Check out the full list of winners below:
Excellence in Narrative ($3,000) Ladykiller in a Bind (Love Conquers All Games)
Excellence in Audio ($3,000) GoNNER (Art in Heart)
Excellence in Design ($3,000) Quadrilateral Cowboy (Blendo Games)
Excellence in Visual Art ($3,000) Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)
Nuovo Award ($5,000) Oiκοςpiel, Book I (David Kanaga)
Best Student Game ($3,000) Un Pas Fragile (Géraud de Courrèges, Alisée Preud’homme, Gregory Parisi, Gaspard Morel)
Audience Award ($3,000) Hyper Light Drifter (Heart Machine)
alt.ctrl.GDC Award Fear Sphere (New Arcade)
Seumas McNally Grand Prize ($30,000) Quadrilateral Cowboy (Blendo Games)