Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor Takes Home Game of the Year at GDC Awards

The 15th annual Game Developers Selection Awards and the 2022 Independent Games Festival were held concluding night in San Francisco during this twelvemonth's Game Developers Briefing (GDC). Center-world: Shadow of Mordor managed to win Gam of the year (GOTY) at the Game Developers Pick Awards, while the game Outer Wilds managed to win the 'Seumas McNally Yard Prize' from the Independent Games Festival awards.

Middle earth: Shadow of Mordor

Shadow of Mordor Manages to Make and Control All the Judges at the Game Developers Option Awards

The full lists of winners and nominees are below, winners will exist highlighted, what do you think did the correct games get awarded, or would you rather have seen some other titles be awarded? Let us know in the comments.

Game of the Twelvemonth:

Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
Middle-world: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Amusement)
Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
Conflicting: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Honorable Mentions: Titanfall (Respawn/Electronic Arts) Valiant Hearts: The Not bad War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft), Far Cry four (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Super Smash Bros. for Wii U (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)

Innovation Honor:

Monument Valley (Ustwo)
Bounden (Game Oven)
Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
This War of Mine (eleven fleck studios)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable Mentions: Crypt of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games), Extrasolar (Lazy viii Studios), Elite: Unsafe (Borderland Developments), Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games), lxxx Days (Inkle Studios)

Best Debut:

Stoic Studio (The Banner Saga)
Yacht Club Games (Shovel Knight)
Respawn Entertainment (Titanfall)
The Astronauts (The Vanishing of Ethan Carter)
Upper I Games (Never Alone)

Honorable Mentions: Dynamighty (CounterSpy), Hinterland Games (The Long Dark), 1337 & Senri (Leo's Fortune), MachineGames (Wolfenstein: The New Club), Hipster Whale (Crossy Road)

Best Blueprint:

Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft (Blizzard)
Centre-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts)
Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker (Nintendo EAD Tokyo and 1-Up Studio/Nintendo)

Honorable Mentions: Mario Kart 8 (Nintendo EAD Tokyo/Nintendo), Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega), Destiny (Bungie/Activision), Monument Valley (Ustwo), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game:

Monument Valley (Ustwo)
Threes! (Sirvo)
Super Smash Bros. 3DS (Sora Ltd. and BANDAI NAMCO/Nintendo)
Hearthstone (Blizzard)
80 Days (Inkle Studios)

Honorable Mentions: Binding (Game Oven), Bravely Default (Silicon Studio and Square Enix/Nintendo and Square Enix), Desert Golfing (Blinkbat Games), Velocity 2X (FuturLab), Fantasy Life (Level-5/Nintendo)

All-time Visual Art:

Monument Valley (Ustwo)
Hohokum (Honeyslug and Sony Santa Monica/Sony)
Child of Low-cal (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)
Bayonetta two (Platinum Games/Nintendo)
Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)

Honorable Mentions: Never Lonely (Upper One Games/E-Line Media), The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts), Transistor (Supergiant Games), Cleaved Historic period: Act 1 (Double Fine Productions), Destiny (Bungie/Activision)

All-time Narrative:

Kentucky Route Cipher: Episode 3 (Cardboard Calculator)
fourscore Days (Inkle Studios)
This State of war of Mine (11 bit studios)
Heart-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable Mentions: Dragon Age: Inquisition (BioWare/Electronic Arts), Valiant Hearts: The Great War (Ubisoft Montpellier/Ubisoft),Tales From The Borderlands: Episode 1 (Gearbox Software/Telltale Games), D4: Dark Dreams Don't Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Hatoful Boyfriend (Mediatonic/Devolver Digital)

Best Audio:

Alien: Isolation (Creative Assembly/Sega)
Hohokum (Honeyslug/Sony)
Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
Transistor (Supergiant Games)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Honorable Mentions: Child of Light (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), D4: Night Dreams Don't Die (Access Games/Microsoft), Bayonetta 2 (Platinum Games/Nintendo), Catacomb of the Necrodancer (Brace Yourself Games)

All-time Technology:

Destiny (Bungie/Activision)
Center-earth: Shadow of Mordor (Monolith Productions/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment)
Wolfenstein: The New Lodge (MachineGames/Bethesda)
Aristocracy: Dangerous (Frontier Developments)
Far Cry 4 (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft)

Honorable Mentions: Assassin's Creed Unity (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft), The Final of Us: Remastered (Naughty Dog/Sony), Sunset Overdrive (Insomniac Games/Microsoft), Alien: Isolation (Creative Associates/Sega), Infamous: Second Son (Sucker Punch Productions/Sony)

2015 Independent Games Festival Winners

Excellence in Visual Art

Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith)
Lumino Urban center (State of Play Games)
Else Center.Break (Niklas Åkerblad, Erik Svedäng, et al.)
Memory of a Broken Dimension (XRA)
Donut County (Ben Esposito)
Oquonie (XXIIVV and Kokorobot)

Honorable Mentions: Crawl (Powerhoof); Future Unfolding (Spaces of Play); Hyper Light Drifter (Centre Machine); Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Club); The Sailor's Dream (Simogo); The Vanishing of Ethan Carter(The Astronauts)

Excellence in Narrative

80 Days (inkle Studios)
Coming Out Simulator 2022 (Nicky Case)
Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration (Downwards to the Wire)
Pry (Tender Claws)
This War of Mine (eleven Bit Studios)
Iii Fourths Home ([Bracket]Games)

Honorable Mentions: Drape (Llaura, Dreamfeeel); Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna) (Upper One Games/E-Line Media); Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds); The Fall (Over The Moon); The Sailor'southward Dream (Simogo); The Talos Principle (Croteam)

Excellence in Design

Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wilds)
fourscore Days (inkle Studios)
Framed (Loveshack)
Invisible Inc. (Klei Entertainment)
Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis & Nikita Mikros)
The Talos Principle (Croteam)

Honorable Mentions: Desert Golfing (Helm Games); Dungeon of the Countless (Amplitude Studios); Countless Legend (Aamplitude Studios); Helix (Michael Brough); Continue Talking and Nobody Explodes (Steel Crate Games); Mini Metro (Dinosaur Polo Order)

Excellence in Audio

Ephemerid: A Musical Chance (SuperChop Games)
Phonopath (Kevin Regamey)
Shovel Knight (Yacht Club Games)
The Sailor'due south Dream (Simogo Games)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)
Thumper (Drool)

Honorable Mentions: Deep Under the Sky (Rich Edwards and Colin Northway); Fotonica (Santa Ragione); Goat Simulator (Coffee Stain Studios); Hotline Miami ii (Dennaton); Nuclear Throne (Vlambeer); Blast Hit (Mediocre)

Nuovo Honor

Tetrageddon Games (Nathalie Lawhead)
Become A Great Artist In Just 10 Seconds (Michael Brough and Andi McClure)
Bounden (Game Oven)
Desert Golfing (Captain Games)
Elegy For A Dead World (Dejobaan Games & Popcannibal)
How Practise You Practise It? (Nina Freeman, Emmett Butler, Jonathan Kittaka and Deckman Coss)
Plug & Play (Mario von Rickenbach and Michael Frei / Etter Studio)
Rooftop Cop (Stephen Lawrence Clark)

Honorable Mentions: Curtain (Llaura, Dreamfeeel); Ice-Bound: A Novel of Reconfiguration (Down to the Wire); International Jetpack Conference (Rob Dubbin and Allison Parrish); Outer Wilds (Team Outer Wiilds); Phonopath (Kevin Regamery); Push Me Pull You (Business firm Business firm)

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

Outer Wilds (Squad Outer Wilds)
lxxx Days (Inkle Studios)
Invisible Inc. (Klei Entertainment)
The Talos Principle (Croteam)
Metamorphabet (Patrick Smith)
This War of Mine (xi Bit Studios)

Honorable Mentions: Donut Canton (Ben Esposito); Countless Fable (Amplitude Studios); Killer Queen (Joshua DeBonis & Nikita Mikros); Shovel Knight (Yacht Gild Games); The Sailor's Dream (Simogo Games); The Vanishing of Ethan Carter (The Astronauts)

Source: https://wccftech.com/middle-earth-shadow-of-mordor-takes-home-game-of-the-year-at-gdc-awards/

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