NEWS
by Mark Barley
Develop Awards 2012 Finalists Announced
The finalists (or nominations, if you will) have been announced for the 2012 Develop Awards.
There's a bunch of them, so watch out:
Category - Creativity
New IP
- Brink (Splash Damage)
- Dead Esther (Thechineseroom)
- Frozen Synapse (Mode 7 Games)
- Monstermind (Bossa Studios)
- My Horse (NaturalMotion Games)
- Zombies, Run! (Six to Start)
Use of a License
- Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady)
- Battlestar Galactica Online (Bigpoint/Artplant)
- LEGO: Harry Potter - Years 5-7 (TT Games)
- LEGO: Life of George (LEGO Group Denmark)
- Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planeswalkers (Stainless Games)
- Peppa Pig (Strawdog Studios)
- Team Hot Wheels Apptivity (Big Bit)
- Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (Doublesix Games)
Use of Narrative
- Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady)
- Dear Esther (Thechineseroom)
- Driver: San Francisco (Ubisoft Reflections)
- Misfits: Community Service (Mobile Pie)
- Where Is My Heart? (Die Gute Fabrik)
- Zombies, Run! (Six to Start)
Visual Arts
- Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady)
- Battlefield 3 (EA/DICE)
- Dear Esther (Thechineseroom)
- Rayman Origins (Ubisoft Montpillier)
- Trine 2 (Frozenbyte)
- Wonderputt (Damp Gnat)
Audio Accomplishment
- Battlefield 3 (EA/DICE)
- Batman: Arkham City (Rocksteady)
- Beat Sneak Beat (Simogo)
- Driver: San Francisco (Ubisoft Reflections)
- Okabu (Hand Circus)
- Total War: Fall of the Samurai (The Creative Assembly)
- Zombies, Run! (Six to Start)
Publishing Hero
- Connect2Media
- Indie City
- Indie Fund
- SCEE Xdev
- Steam
- Thumbstar
Category - Technology Services
Technical Innovation
- Enlighten (Geomerics)
- Kinect Sports: Season 2 (Rare)
- Monstermind (Bossa Studios)
- MotorStorm RC (Evolution Studios)
- My Horse (NaturalMotion Games)
- Circus Challenge (Pitbull Studio)
- Team Hot Wheels Apptivity (Big Bit)
Use of Online
- Aurora (nDreams)
- Eve Online (CCP)
- Monstermind (Bossa Studios)
- Minecraft 360 (4J Studios/Mojang Specifications)
- PlayStation Home (SCE)
- Trials Evolution (Red Lynx)
- World of Tanks (Wargaming.net)
Visual Outsourcer
- Atomhawk Design
- Axis Animation
- Cubic Motion
- Dimensional Imaging
- Imagination Studios
- Realtime UK
- TrioViz
Audio Outsourcer
- Nimrod Productions
- Outsource Media UK
- Richard Jacques Studio
- Side
- The Audio Guys
- Wave Studios
Services
- Audiomotion
- LocalizeDirect
- Pinewood Studios
- Testronic Labs
- Universally Speaking
- VMC Game Labs
Tools Provider
- Autodesk
- Epic Games
- Firelight Technologies
- Hansoft
- Havok
- NaturalMotion
- RAD Game Tools
- Unity Technologies
- Xaitment
Engine
- Bigworld Client (Bigworld Technologies)
- CryEngine 3 (Crytek)
- Havok Vision Engine (Havok)
- HeroEngine (Simultronics)
- Marmalade (Ideaworks 3D)
- Unity 3.5 (Unity Technologies)
- Unreal Engine 3 (Epic Games)
Recruiter
- Aardvark Swift
- Amiqus
- Avatar Games
- Datascope Recruitment
- OPM Jobs
- MPG Universal
Category - Studios
New Studio
- Thechineseroom
- Big Bit
- Bossa Studios
- ShortRound Games
- Six to Start
- Toxic Games
- We R Interactive
Micro Studio
- Thechineseroom
- Dakko Dakko
- Mobile Pie
- ShortRound Games
- Six to Start
- Rodeo Games
- Tanukii Studios/Room 4 Games
Business Development
- Mind Candy
- Zattika
- Playground Games
- NaturalMotion Games
- Stainless Games
- Rovio Entertainment
- nDreams
- Wargaming.net
Independent Studio
- Blitz Games Studio
- Bossa Studios
- CCP
- Crytek
- Frontier Developments
- Mediatonic
- Preloaded
- Rovio Entertainment
In-House Studio
- The Creative Assembly
- EA/DICE
- Rare
- Red Lynx
- Rocksteady Studios
- TT Games
- Ubisoft Montpellier
- Bigpoint Hamburg
The Develop Excellence Awards will be handed out on July 11.
Via Develop