The lead designer behind Shadow, Fumito Ueda, made the trip over to San Jose with a selection of team members to accept the awards and, once on stage, modestly admitted he had never anticipated enjoying such success at the ceremony. Consequently, they hadn't prepared English language acceptance speeches.
It was a rather less successful night for another Sony creation however - God of War didn't win a thing, despite being nominated in six categories. But on the plus side (in our eyes anyway), Guitar Hero was close behind Shadow with three awards, whilst DS game Nintendogs and Psychonauts both picked up two.
The full list of winners is as follows:
- Games Developer Choice Awards
- Innovation Honour: Shadow of the Colossus
- Innovation Honour: Nintendogs
- Innovation Honour: Guitar Hero
- Best New Studio: Double Fine Productions (Psychonauts)
- Best Writing: Psychonauts
- Best Game Design: Shadow of the Colossus
- Best Audio: Guitar Hero
- Best Character Design: Shadow of the Colossus
- Best Technology: Nintendogs
- Best Visual Arts: Shadow of the Colossus
- Game of the Year: Shadow of the Colossus
- Maverick Award: Mike Dornbrook, Eran Egozy, Greg LoPiccolo and Alex Rigopulos (Harmonix)
- First Penguin Award: Will Crowther, Don Woods
- Community Contribution: Chris Hecker
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Richard Garriott (creator of Ultima series)
Independent Games Festival Awards
- Innovation in Audio: Weird Worlds: Return to Infinite Space
- Innovation in Digital Art: Darwinia
- Innovation in Game Design: Braid
- Technical Excellence: Darwinia
- Best Web-Browser Game: Dad N' Me
- Seamus MacNally Game of the Year: Darwinia
- AdultSwim.com Award: Dodge That Anvil
- Audience Award: Dofus
- Half-Life 2 Mod: Dystopia
- Doom 3 Mod: Last Man Standing Co-Op
- Neverwinter Nights Mod: Rose of Eternity - Chapter One
- Unreal Tournament 2004 Mod: Path of Vengeance
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