2013 GDC Awards Winners and Nominees

Here are the 2013 GDC Awards Winners and Nominees.

The awarding ceremony was concluded on march 27, 'Journey' took most of the major awards during the conference: the Game of the Year award, as well as winning Best Audio, Best Game Design, Best Visual Arts, Best Downloadable Game, and the Innovation Award.

Game Developers Choice Awards

Game of the Year

• Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
• Mass Effect 3 (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis Games/2K Games)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Innovation Award

• Mark of the Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• FTL: Faster Than Light (Subset Games)
• The Unfinished Swan (Giant Sparrow/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• ZombiU (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft)

Best Audio

• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Hotline Miami (Dennaton Games/Devolver Digital)
• Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Assassin’s Creed III (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)

Best Debut

• Humble Hearts (Dust: An Elysian Tail)
• Polytron Corporation (Fez)
• Giant Sparrow (The Unfinished Swan)
• Subset Games (FTL: Faster Than Light)
• Fireproof Games (The Room )

Best Downloadable Game

• The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
• Spelunky (Derek Yu/Andy Hull)
• Trials: Evolution (RedLynx/Microsoft Studios)
• Mark Of The Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)

Best Game Design

• Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Mark Of The Ninja (Klei Entertainment/Microsoft Studios)
• Spelunky (Derek Yu/Andy Hull)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• XCOM: Enemy Unknown (Firaxis Games/2K Games)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Gravity Rush (SCE Japan Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Hero Academy (Robot Entertainment)
• Sound Shapes (Queasy Games/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• The Room (Fireproof Games)
• Kid Icarus: Uprising (Sora/Nintendo)

Best Narrative

• Spec Ops: The Line (Yager Entertainment/2K Games)
• Mass Effect 3 (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
• Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• The Walking Dead (Telltale Games)
• Virtue’s Last Reward (Chunsoft/Aksys Games)

Best Technology

• Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• PlanetSide 2 (Sony Online Entertainment)
• Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)
• Call of Duty: Black Ops II (Treyarch/Activision)
• Assassin’s Creed III (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Visual Arts

• Borderlands 2 (Gearbox Software/2K Games)
• Journey (Thatgamecompany/Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Far Cry 3 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
• Dishonored (Arkane Studios/Bethesda Softworks)
• Halo 4 (343 Industries/Microsoft Studios)

Ambassador Award

• Chris Melissinos, curator of The Smithsonian’s The Art of Video Games exhibit

Pioneer Award

• Spacewar creator Steve Russell

Audience Award

• Dishonored

Lifetime Achievement Award

• BioWare founders Ray Muzyka and Greg Zeschuk

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