IGDA Nominees

February 12, 2002 7:48 AM

The International Game Developers Association has announced their nominees for the annual Game Developers Choice Awards. Winners of these awards will be announced at the Game Developers Conference in March. Unlike the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences awards where you have to buy yourself a membership to be able to vote and for your product to be considered (see also this article), the IGDA nominations are open and free for all professional game developers.
PC games make the nominations list several times, especially Black & White and Max Payne. Here's a two of the categories.

Game of the Year
BLACK & WHITE (Lionhead Studios)
GRAND THEFT AUTO III (DMA Design/Rockstar Games)
HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED (Bungie Studios)
ICO (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)
MAX PAYNE (Remedy Entertainment)
Excellence in Programming
Kazunori Yamauchi & team for physics in GRAN TURISMO 3 A-SPEC
Andy Gavin for programming in JAK & DAXTER: THE PRECURSOR LEGACY
Jason Jones & team for programming in HALO: COMBAT EVOLVED
Richard Evans for artificial intelligence in BLACK & WHITE
Sherman Archibald, John Carmack & Ryan Feltrin for graphics in RETURN TO CASTLE WOLFENSTEIN