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January 07, 2004
Stars in our eyes
Another new year, another round of nominations for the industry's best and brightest. <a href="http://www.igda.org/awards/nominations.htm">Nominations are now underway</a> for the 4th annual <a href="http://www.igda.org/awards/">Game Developers Choice Awards</a>. I encourage all game developers to submit your nods before the January 23rd deadline.
I like to think that the Choice Awards are unique in that it is the developers doing the nominating/voting, and it is the developers that are receiving the awards. There's no money involved; there's no publisher/sales influence; there's no genre or platform awards. It is about peer recognition and rewarding innovation and achievement in making great games.
There's been a lot of <a href="http://dukenukem.typepad.com/game_matters/2003/12/celebrities.html">discussion about game awards</a>, in part brought on by the <a href="http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/specials/special.pl?spec=spiketv2&pagenum=1">horror that was the SpikeTV awards</a>. Aside from the fact that many of the attempts to put on game award shows are pretty hopeless, there seems to be this implied need to get them onto TV (like the Oscars). And, the single minded drive to get them aired motivates a lot of stupid and/or tasteless decisions...
With the Choice Awards, the focus was always on the industry and the actual people doing the hard, innovative work. In our mind, it is the developers that are the stars (not some rapper, skater or porn actress). At the Choice Awards, it is developers presenting the awards to other developers. If the media want to be there, do interviews, roll some cameras, fine, we'll welcome them with open arms.
Bottom line, you need to establish the credibility and prestige within the community. The red carpet will come at some point down the road, but we're not holding our breath for it...
Anyway, enough ranting. Get your butt over to the <a href="http://www.igda.org/awards/nominations.htm">nominations page</a> and play your part in honoring your peers!
Posted by della at January 7, 2004 01:28 PM
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