Two high-profile builders might be honored on the twenty fifth Annual Game Developers Choice Awards at this yr’s Game Developers Conference in March. The Lifetime Achievement award will go to author and artistic director Sam Lake, whose work on Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, and Control has been hailed as a few of the business’s most interesting. Lake has beforehand received over 200 business awards, says the GDCA.
Independent developer Lucas Pope will obtain the Pioneer Award, in the meantime, for work that “has pushed the bar for gaming narratives and mechanics,” together with extremely influential border crossing recreation Papers, Please and the a lot acclaimed Return of the Obra Dinn. Both Papers, Please and Obra Dinn received the Grand Prize on the Independent Games Festival Awards (additionally a GDC occasion), alongside a slew of others prizes.
The GDCA occasion will happen on Wednesday, March 19 instantly after the IGF awards—each might be livestreamed on the official GDC Twitch channel.
“The Game Developers Choice Awards has a proud legacy of shining the highlight on figures who make gaming probably the most gripping and evocative technique of storytelling,” stated Stephenie Hawkins, GDC’s Event Director, in a press launch. “We’re excited to acknowledge Sam Lake and Lucas Pope for his or her dedication to pushing the boundaries of the medium by means of transcendent narrative constructions, advanced ethical questions and evocative gameplay.”
Previous honorees of the lifetime achievement award embrace well-known personalities like Elder Scrolls developer Todd Howard, Doom developer John Romero, and Uncharted developer Amy Hennig. Previous recipients of the Pioneer award embrace Prince of Persia developer Jordan Mechner, journey recreation pioneer Roberta Williams, and Mabel Addis, one of many world’s first videogame designers and writers.
