Game Developers Choice Awards - Archive 2001
Nominees & Awards Recipients
The recipients for the 1st annual Game Developers Choice Awards were revealed during an awards ceremony at the Game Developers Conference. Each category is listed with the recipient bolded and italicized, along with the nominees in regular type.
Lifetime Achievement Award
- Will Wright
The First Penguin Award
- Chip Morningstar & Randy Farmer for Habitat/Club Caribe (LucasFilm)
Rookie Studio Award
- Counter-Strike team (Counter-Strike)
- Free Radical Design (TimeSplitters)
- Massive Entertainment (Ground Control)
- Nihilistic Software (Vampire: The Masquerade - Redemption)
- Planet Moon Studios (Giants: Citizen Kabuto)
IGDA Award for Community Contribution
- Chris Crawford
- John Carmack
- Michael Abrash
- Robert Huebner
- Warren Spector
Original Game Character of the Year
- Cate Archer (No One Lives Forever)
- Kabuto (Giants: Citizen Kabuto)
- Ulala (Space Channel 5)
- Seaman (Seaman)
- Tamale Loco (Tamale Loco @ shockwave.com)
Excellence in Audio
- Michael Sweet - BliX (music)
- Matt Uelmen, Jason Hayes, Glenn Stafford & Andrea Pessino - Diablo II (composition)
- Fumitaka Shibata - Samba de Amigo (music)
- Naofumi Hataya & Kenichi Tokoi - Space Channel 5 (music)
- Kemal Amarasingham & Eric Brosius - Thief II: The Metal Age (sound effects)
Excellence in Game Design
- Harvey Smith & Warren Spector - Deus Ex (game design)
- Sean Clark & Michael Stemmle - Escape from Monkey Island (puzzles)
- Shigeru Miyamoto & Eiji Aonuma - Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (gameplay)
- Ragnar Tornquist - The Longest Journey (story)
- Neversoft Entertainment - Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 (gameplay)
Excellence in Level Design
- American McGee, Jim Molinets & team - American McGee's Alice
- NOLF level design team - No One Lives Forever
- Michel Ancel & team - Rayman 2: The Great Escape
- SSX level design team - SSX
- Christopher Foster, Tom Odell & team - Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force
Excellence in Programming
- Yu Suzuki & team - F355 Challenge (physics)
- Scott Guest & Andy Astor - Giants: Citizen Kabuto (graphics)
- Visual Concepts dev team - NFL2K1 (networking)
- Martin Brownlow - Sacrifice (graphics)
- Sims programming team - The Sims (AI)
Excellence in Visual Arts
- American McGee - American McGee's Alice (art direction)
- Tomonobu Itagaki, Hiroaki Matsui & team - Dead or Alive 2 (animation)
- Ryuta Ueda & Kazuki Hosokawa - Jet Grind Radio (art direction)
- Joby Otero - Sacrifice (art direction)
- Insomniac art team - Spyro: Year of the Dragon (art direction)
Game of the Year
- Deus Ex (ION Storm Austin)
- Jet Grind Radio (Smilebit)
- No One Lives Forever (Monolith)
- Shenmue (Sega AM2)
- The Sims (Maxis)
Game Spotlight Awards
- American McGee's Alice (Rogue/EA)
- Counter-Strike (Counter-Strike team)
- Crazy Taxi (Sega AM3)
- Deus Ex (ION Storm Austin)
- Jet Grind Radio (Smilebit)
- Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Nintendo)
- NFL2K1 (Visual Concepts)
- No One Lives Forever (Monolith)
- Sacrifice (Shiny)
- Samba de Amigo (Sega Sonic Team)
- Seaman (Vivarium)
- Shenmue (Sega AM2)
- SSX (EA Canada)
- The Sims (Maxis)
- Virtua Tennis (Sega)
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Press Releases
March 24, 2001
IGDA Announces 2001 Game Developers Choice Award
Winners
March 21, 2001
Game Developers Choice Awards Honor Lifetime Achievement
And Ground-Breaking Work In the Game Development Industry
February 22, 2001
Nominees Announced For Game Developers Choice Awards
January 10, 2001
IGDA To Present Game Developers Choice Awards At
2001 Game Developers Conference