Game Developers Choice Awards 2006

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The sixth annual Game Developers Choice Awards celebrated the best games of 2005.

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Overview

The sixth annual Game Developers Choice Awards were held on March 22, 2006 at the San Jose Civic Auditorium in San Jose, California.

Personal Awards

These three special honors, selected by the Game Developers Choice Awards advisory board, were also presented at the ceremony.

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Richard Garriott (Person)

First Penguin Award

• Will Crowther (Person) & Don Woods

Maverick Award

• Alex Rigopulos (Person), Eran Egozy (Person), Greg LoPiccolo (Person), and Mike Dornbrook

Community Contribution

• Chris Hecker (Person)

Game of the Year

===Shadow of the Colossus (Game)=== Recipients: Kenji Kaido (Person), Yasuhide Kobayashi (Person), Fumito Ueda (Person) Developer: Team Ico (Company) Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Runners-Up Animal Crossing: Wild World - Nintendo EAD (Company) / Nintendo (Company) God of War (Game) - SCE Studio Santa Monica / SCEA Guitar Hero (Game) - Harmonix Music Systems (Company) / RedOctane The Movies (Game) - Lionhead Studios / Activision (Company)||

Innovation Award (Tie)

===Guitar Hero (Game)=== Recipients: Greg LoPiccolo (Person), Ryan Lesser (Person) Developer: Harmonix Music Systems (Company) Publisher: RedOctane Nintendogs (Game) Recipients: Tsutomu Kaneshige (Person), Hideki Konno (Person), Shigeru Miyamoto (Person), Kiyoshi Mizuki (Person) Developer: Nintendo EAD (Company) Publisher: Nintendo (Company) Shadow of the Colossus (Game) Recipients: Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda (Person) Developer: Team Ico (Company) Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America||

Best Audio

===Guitar Hero (Game)=== Recipients: Eric Brosius (Person), Kasson Crooker (Person) Developer: Harmonix Music Systems (Company) Publisher: RedOctane Runners-Up Call of Duty 2 (Game) - Infinity Ward (Company) / Activision (Company) Electroplankton (Game) - indies zero (Company) / Nintendo (Company) God of War (Game) - SCE Studio Santa Monica / SCEA Project Gotham Racing 3 (Game) - Bizarre Creations (Company) / Microsoft Studios||

Best Character Design

===Shadow of the Colossus (Game)=== Recipients: Atsuko Fukuyama (Person), Hitoshi Niwa (Person), Shunpei Suzuki, Fumito Ueda (Person) Developer: Team Ico (Company) Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Runners-Up City of Villains (Game) - Cryptic Studios (Company) / NCsoft Corporation (Company) God of War (Game) - SCE Studio Santa Monica / SCEA Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath - Oddworld Inhabitants (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company) Psychonauts (Game) - Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment (Company)||

Best Game Design

===Shadow of the Colossus (Game)=== Recipients: Junichi Hosono, Fumito Ueda (Person) Developer: Team Ico (Company) Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Runners-Up Animal Crossing: Wild World - Nintendo EAD (Company) / Nintendo (Company) God of War (Game) - SCE Studio Santa Monica / SCEA Nintendogs (Game) - Nintendo EAD / Nintendo Psychonauts (Game) - Double Fine Productions / Majesco Entertainment (Company)||

Best New Studio

===Double Fine Productions for Psychonauts (Game)=== Recipients: Tim Schafer (Person), Caroline Esmurdoc (Person) Runners-Up ArenaNet for Guild Wars (Game) New Crayon (Company) for Bonnie's Bookstore Telltale Games (Company) for Bone: Out from Boneville Wideload Games for Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse (Game)||

Best Technology

===Nintendogs (Game)=== Recipients: Tsutomu Kaneshige (Person) Developer: Nintendo EAD (Company) Publisher: Nintendo (Company) Runners-Up Battlefield 2: Modern Combat - DICE (Company) / Electronic Arts (Company) Guitar Hero (Game) - Harmonix Music Systems (Company) / Activision (Company) Project Gotham Racing 3 (Game) - Bizarre Creations (Company) / Microsoft Studios Shadow of the Colossus (Game) - Team Ico (Company) / SCEA||

Best Visual Arts

===Shadow of the Colossus (Game)=== Recipients: Koji Hasegawa, Masanori Kajita (Person), Hironobu Nakano, Fumito Ueda (Person) Developer: Team Ico (Company) Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment America Runners-Up God of War (Game) - SCE Studio Santa Monica / SCEA Project Gotham Racing 3 (Game) - Bizarre Creations (Company) / Microsoft Studios Resident Evil 4 (Game) - Capcom Production Studio 4 (Company) / Capcom (Company) We Love Katamari (Game) - Namco (Company)||

Best Writing

===Psychonauts (Game)=== Recipients: Tim Schafer (Person), Erik Wolpaw (Person) Developer: Double Fine Productions Publisher: Majesco Entertainment (Company) Runners-Up Freedom Force vs The 3rd Reich (Game) - Irrational Games (Company) / Vivendi Universal God of War (Game) - SCE Studio Santa Monica / SCEA Indigo Prophecy (Game) - Quantic Dream (Company) / Atari Jade Empire (Game) - BioWare (Company) / Microsoft Studios||

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Game Developers Choice Awards 2006

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GDC Awards 2006,GDCA 2006

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• Guitar Hero (Game)
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• Psychonauts (Game)
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