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Finalists in 18 categories have been announced for the upcoming 2004 Develop Industry Excellence Awards, which will place in London on August 31.
In addition to the diverse categories, this year’s event will also introduce a new award, The Development Legend Award, which will be bestowed upon three game industry veterans this year—Rayman-creator Michel Ancel, Llamasoft’s Jeff Minter and Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux.
The full list of nominees follows below:
Finalists for the Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2004:
NEW UK STUDIO (DEBUT TITLE) Swordfish Studios Confounding Factor Airplay UK Elixir
NEW EURO STUDIO (DEBUT TITLE) People Can Fly Cry Tek Robotee Realtime 3D GmbH
MOBILE/HANDHELD STUDIO IOMO Sumea Morpheme 8bit games ideaworks3D
IN-HOUSE DEVELOPMENT SCEE Rockstar North IO Interactive Ubisoft Codemasters
INDEPENDENT DEVELOPER Digital Illusions Bizarre Creations Kuju Cry Tek Starbreeze Studios
MOST IMPROVED STUDIO Kuju Broadsword Interactive Starbreeze Studios Supersonic Software Power and Magic Developments
BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT Kuju Creative Assembly IOMO SI Games Guerilla Games IFone
NEW CONSOLE IP Singstar (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) Eye Toy (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) Freedom Fighters (IO Interactive) Dance: UK (Broadsword Interactive) Mashed (Supersonic Software) Manhunt (Rockstar North)
NEW PC IP Far Cry (Cry Tek) Painkiller (People Can Fly) Singles: Flirt Up Your Life (Robotee Realtime 3D GmbH) Perimeter (KD Lab) XIII (Ubisoft)
USE OF ONLINE Jagex Software (Runescape) Bizarre Creations (Project Gotham Racing 2) Cry Tek (Far Cry) Nokia (N-Gage Arena) CPP Games (Eve Online)
ART AND SOUND Cry Tek (Far Cry) Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (Singstar/Eyetoy) Rockstar North (Manhunt) Revolution Games (Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon) Ubisoft (Beyond Good & Evil/XIII) Rare (Grabbed by the Ghoulies)
INNOVATION Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (Eye Toy) Ubisoft (XIII) KD Lab (Perimeter) Eurocom (Athens 2004) Nadeo ( Trackmania)
SERVICES AND OUTSOURCING Audiomotion Air Studios Outsource Media Babel Side
RECRUITMENT Aardvark Swift Amiqus OPM Interactive Selection Datascope
DEVELOPMENT TEAM TOCA Team (Codemasters) Beyond Good & Evil team (Ubisoft) Project Gotham Racing 2 team (Bizarre Creations) EyeToy team (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe) Freedom Fighters team (IO Interactive)
DEVELOPMENT LEGEND Michel Ancel Jeff Minter Peter Molyneux