IGDA Announces Nominations For 2002 Game Developers Choice Awards

Grand Theft Auto III(DMA Design/Rockstar Games)

Halo: Combat Evolved (Bungie Studios)

Ico (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)

Max Payne (Remedy Entertainment) Rookie Studio of the Year

Adrenium Games for Azurik: Rise of Perathia

Bohemia Interactive Studio for Operation Flashpoint

Croteam for Serious Sam

Pseudo Interactive for Cel Damage

Timegate Studios for Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns Original Game Character of the Year

Dante from Devil May Cry

Daxter from Jak and Daxter: The Precusor Legacy

Ico from Ico

Max Payne from Max Payne

Munch from Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee Excellence in Audio

Erik Kraber & Jack Grillo for sound design in Clive Barker's Undying

Harry Gregson-Williams for composition in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty

Josh Randall for sound design in Frequency

Marty O’Donnell & team for sound effects in Halo: Combat Evolved

Thomas Engel, Rudy Stember, and Chris Huelsbeck for sound engineering in Star Wars Rogue Squadron II: Rogue Leader Excellence in Game Design

Fumito Ueda & team for game design in Ico

GTA3 team for game play in Grand Theft Auto III

Lorne Lanning & Chris Ulm for story/writing of Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

Peter Molyneux & team for game design in Black and White

Shigeru Miyamto & team for game design in Pikmin Excellence in Level Design

Craig Filshie, William Mills, Chris Rothwell & James

Worrall for level design in Grand Theft Auto III

Fumito Ueda & team for level design in Ico

Ghost Recon team for level design in Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon

Scott Campbell, Dave Jaffe, Kellan Hatch & team for level design in Twisted Metal: Black

Toshihiro Nagoshi & team for level design in Super Monkey Ball Excellence in Programming

Kazunori Yamauchi & team for physics in Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec

Andy Gavin for programming in Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

Jason Jones and team for programming in Halo: Combat Evolved

Richard Evans for artificial intelligence in Black and White

Sherman Archibald, John Carmack & Ryan Feltrin for graphics in Return to Castle Wolfenstein Excellence in Visual Arts

Dan Arey & Evan Wells for animation in Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy

Fumito Ueda & team for art direction in Ico

Kazunori Yamauchi & team for modeling in Gran Turismo 3 A-Spec

Lorne Lanning & Farzad Varahramyan for art direction in Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee

Tetsuya Mizuguchi & team for art direction in Rez Game Innovation Spotlights

Black and White (Lionhead Studios)

Cel Damage (Pseudo Interactive)

Frequency (Harmonix Music Systems)

Grand Theft Auto III (DMA Design)

Ico (Sony Computer Entertainment, Inc.)

Kohan: Immortal Sovereigns (Timegate Studios)

Majestic (Electronic Arts)

Max Payne (Remedy Entertainment)

Rez (United Game Artists)

Super Monkey Ball (Amusement Vision) Jason Della Rocca, the IGDA's program director, said that that nominations were free and open to all professional game developers, regardless of membership or affiliation. An advisory committee from the IGDA will select the recipients of the Lifetime Achievement Award, First Penguin Award and the IGDA Award for Community Contribution. The GDC is produced by the Gama Network, the same organization that publishes Gamasutra.