The winners of the Australian Game Developers (AGD) Awards have been announced, with developers from Australia and New Zealand being honored for the first time in their own award show. All finalists and winners were selected by the AGDC awards committee, comprising the AGDC Advisory board with additional invited industry representatives.
Australasia's increasing diversity in terms of mainstream console and handheld releases was highlighted in the awards, which saw Irrational Games' Australian branch win many of the major awards for its PC multiplayer FPS
Tribes: Vengeance, with other awards going to Atari Melbourne House for PS2 action game
Transformers, and Krome Studios for its Australian-themed, EA-published multiplatform and handheld title,
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2.
The full list of winners can be found below, with more information available via the website
www.agdc.com.au.
Career Achievement Award: John De Margheriti, Micro Forté
Award for Outstanding Innovation : Andrew Bailey of Tantalus, for contribution to the Tantalus CRIS GBA game engine
Award for Best New Start-Up : Binary Star Limited
Award for Best Game of 2004: Irrational Games, for
Tribes: Vengeance
Award for Best PC Game : Irrational Games, for
Tribes: Vengeance
Award for Best Console Game: Atari Melbourne House, for
Transformers
Award for Best Handheld Game : Krome Studios, for
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue
Award for Best Game Design: Edward Orman, Irrational Games, for
Tribes: Vengeance
Award for Best Level Design: Dean Tate, Irrational Games, for
Tribes: Vengeance
Award for Best Game Audio: Krome Studios, for
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue
Award for Programming Excellence : Atari Melbourne House, for
Transformers
Award for Outstanding Visual Arts: Krome Studios, for
Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2: Bush Rescue
Best Unsigned Game (Professional):
Homeland by Binary Star Limited
