2017 SHORTLIST!

CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT

New Games IP:
Horizon Zero Dawn – Guerrilla Games
Overcooked – Ghost Town Games
Dawn of Titans – NaturalMotion
Yooka-Laylee – Playtonic Games
Virginia – Variable State
Snake Pass – Sumo Digital
Frontier – Planet Coaster
Inside – Playdead
Little Nightmares – Bandai Namco
Human Fall Flat – Curve Digital

Animation Unity 3D
Horizon Zero Dawn – Guerrilla Games
Blackwood Crossing – PaperSeven
Yooka Yaylee – Playtonic
Virginia – Variable State
Total War: Warhammer – Creative Assembly
The Sexy Brutale – Cavalier Games
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine – CD Projekt Red
Planet Coaster – Frontier ​​

Visual Design
Horizon Zero Dawn – Guerrilla Games
Forza Horizon 3 – Playground Games
Halo Wars 2- Creative Assembly
Yooka-Laylee – Playtonic Games
Batman: Arkham VR – Rocksteady Studios
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine – CD Projekt Red
Virginia – Variable State
Dawn of Titans – NaturalMotion

Music Design
Horizon Zero Dawn – Guerrilla Games
Forza Horizon 3 – Playground Games
The Sexy Brutale – Cavalier Games
Virginia – Variable State
Planet Coaster – Frontier
Sniper Elite 4 – Rebellion
Hue – Fiddlesticks Games
PlayStation VR Worlds – Sony Interactive Entertainment
Total War: Warhammer – Creative Assembly
Get Even – Bandai Namco

Sound Design
PlayStation VR Worlds – Sony Interactive Entertainment
Until Dawn: Rush of Blood – Supermassive Games
Forza Horizon 3 – Playground Games
Halo Wars 2 – Creative Assembly
Sniper Elite 4- Rebellion
Battlefield 1- EA DICE
Stories Untold – No Code
Planet Coaster – Frontier
Batman: Arkham VR – Rocksteady Studios

Best Writing
Horizon Zero Dawn – Guerrilla Games
Torment: Tides of Numenera – inXile Entertainment
Sunless Sea – Failbetter Games
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine – CD Projekt Red
The Sexy Brutale – Cavalier Games
Stories Untold – No Code
The Bunker – Splendy Games
Blackwood Crossing – PaperSeven
Batman: Arkham VR – Rocksteady Games
Get Even – Bandai Namco

Best Performance
SIGNA (Inside) – Playdead
Anna Acton (Hue)- Fiddlesticks Games
Doug Cockle (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine) – CD Projekt Red
Larry Fessenden (Until Dawn: Rush of Blood) – Supermassive Games
Jon McKellan (Stories Untold) – No Code
Adam Brown (The Bunker) – Splendy Games
Mark Hamill (Batman: Arkham VR) – Rocksteady Studios
John DiMaggio (LEGO Dimensions Adventure Time Level Pack) – TT Games
Brian Blessed (Loco Dojo) – Make Real

Publishing Hero
Team17
505 Games
Curve Digital
Sega Europe Ltd
All 4 Games
Kiss Ltd
Wales Interactive
Dovetail Games
Devolver Digital
ID@Xbox

Micro/ Start Up Studio
Splendy Games
Ghost Town Games
Variable State
Fiddlesticks Games
No Code
Ant Workshop

Independent Studio
Supermassive Games
Playground Games
Playsport Games
CD Projekt Red
Playdead
Sumo Digital
Rebellion
Frontier

In-House Studio
NaturalMotion
Creative Assembly
Rocksteady Games
Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio
TT Games
Guerrilla Games
Team17
Jagex
Dovetail Games

New Studio
Cavalier Games
Ghost Town Games
Variable State
Playtonic Games
Playsport Games
Splendy Games
Fiddlesticks Games

SPECIALIST CONTRIBUTION

Creative Outsourcer- Visual & Development
Multiple projects – Axis Animation
Lost (Amazon Lumberyard) – Realtime UK
Hybrid Wars (Wargaming WG Labs) – Flipbook
Virginia – Pink Kong Studios
Multiple projects – d3t

Design & Creativity Tool
Popcorn FX – Persistant Studios
Dehumaniser – Krotos Ltd
WWise – Audiokinetic
GameMaker Studio – YoYo Games
Maya 2017 – Autodesk

Tools Provider- Production
Favro
Perforce Software
Popcorn FX – Persistant Studios
Plan of Attack on behalf of Amazon Game Studios
YoYo Games

Engine
Amazon Lumberyard
Guerrilla Games (Decima Engine)
Epic Games (Unreal Engine)
YoYo Games (Gamemaker Studio)
Unity

Recruiter
Aardvark Swift
Amiqus
Avatar Games
CV Bay Ltd
Datascope Recruitment
OPM Response
Skillsearch Games & Interactive

Services
Audiomotion Studios
Flipbook
Formosa Interactive
GameDev Network Limited
d3t
Player Research
Red Kite Games

QA & Localisation
Allcorrect
Jinglebell Localization
LocalizeDirect Ltd
Lollipop Robot
Testronic
MoGi Group Ltd
Testology
VMC
Universally Speaking

Technology Provider
Allegorithmic
Dimensional Imaging (DI4D™)
Epic Games
Multiplay
OptiTrack
Speech Graphics
Spirit AI
Tazman-Audio Ltd

Creative Outsourcer- Audio
Side UK – Battlefield 1 (EA Dice)
Submersion Audio – Robo Recall (Epic Games)
Nimrod – Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games)
Sounding Sweet – Forza Horizon 3 (Playground Games)
93 Steps – Ride 2 (Milestone)
Soundcuts Ltd – Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)
Formosa Interactive – Multiple projects
Sweet Justice Sound – Multiple projects

Studio of the Year
Supermassive Games
Guerrilla Games
Playground Games
Sumo Digital
Creative Assembly
CD Projekt Red
Team 17
Rebellion

2018 SPONSORS

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