GDC 08: Portal Takes Top Honors At Choice Awards

Valve's hit puzzler Portal took home the prestigious Game of the Year award at the 8th annual Game Developers Choice Awards last night in San Francisco.

In all the team from Valve tallied three trophies for the title, including Innovation and Best Game Design.

2K Boston matched that number by winning three awards for its spooky shooter BioShock, in the categories of Best Audio, Best Visual Art, and Best Writing.

Civilization designer Sid Meier was on hand to receive the Lifetime Achievement Award, with inventor video game pioneer Ralph Baer receiving a well-deserved Pioneer Award.

The full list of award recipients can be found below.

2007 Best Game Design

Portal (Valve)

Kim Swift, Realm Lovejoy, Paul Graham

2007 Best Visual Art

BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)

Scott Sinclair, Shawn Robertson, Andrew James

2007 Best Technology

Crysis (Crytek/Electronic Arts)

Cevat Yerli, Douglas Binks, Timur Davidenko, Martin Mittring

2007 Best Writing

BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)

Ken Levine, Emily Ridgway, Joe McDonagh, Susan O'Connor

2007 Best Audio

BioShock (2K Boston/2K Australia / 2K Games)

Eric Brosius, Pat Balthrop, Emily Ridgway, Justin Mullins

2007 Best Debut

Crackdown (Real Time Worlds / Microsoft Game Studios)

Ramon Gonzalez, Violetta Sanchez, Rafael Diaz, Jose Guerra

2007 Innovation

Portal (Valve)

Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw

2007 Best Handheld Game

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass (Nintendo / Nintendo)

Eiji Aonuma

2007 Best Downloadable Game

Flow (thatgamecompany / Sony Computer Entertainment)

Kellee Santiago, Jenova Chen, Martin Middleton, Hao Cui, John Edwards,

Nick Clark

2007 Game of the Year

Portal (Valve)

Kim Swift, Erik Wolpaw

Lifetime Achievement Award

Sid Meier

Pioneer Award

Ralph Baer

Ambassador Award

Jason Della Rocca