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2004 Develop Industry Awards
by Kit

Monday, July 12 2004

Rayman creator, and Molyneux among nominees.

Finalists in 18 categories have been announced for the upcoming 2004 Develop Industry Excellence Awards, which will place in London on August 31.

In addition to the diverse categories, this year’s event will also introduce a new award, The Development Legend Award, which will be bestowed upon three game industry veterans this year—Rayman-creator Michel Ancel, Llamasoft’s Jeff Minter and Lionhead’s Peter Molyneux.

The full list of nominees follows below:

Finalists for the Develop Industry Excellence Awards 2004:

NEW UK STUDIO (DEBUT TITLE)
Swordfish Studios
Confounding Factor
Airplay UK
Elixir

NEW EURO STUDIO (DEBUT TITLE)
People Can Fly
Cry Tek
Robotee Realtime 3D GmbH

MOBILE/HANDHELD STUDIO
IOMO
Sumea
Morpheme
8bit games
ideaworks3D

IN-HOUSE DEVELOPMENT
SCEE
Rockstar North
IO Interactive
Ubisoft
Codemasters

INDEPENDENT DEVELOPER
Digital Illusions
Bizarre Creations
Kuju
Cry Tek
Starbreeze Studios

MOST IMPROVED STUDIO
Kuju
Broadsword Interactive
Starbreeze Studios
Supersonic Software
Power and Magic Developments

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Kuju
Creative Assembly
IOMO
SI Games
Guerilla Games
IFone

NEW CONSOLE IP
Singstar (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Eye Toy (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Freedom Fighters (IO Interactive)
Dance: UK (Broadsword Interactive)
Mashed (Supersonic Software)
Manhunt (Rockstar North)

NEW PC IP
Far Cry (Cry Tek)
Painkiller (People Can Fly)
Singles: Flirt Up Your Life (Robotee Realtime 3D GmbH)
Perimeter (KD Lab)
XIII (Ubisoft)

USE OF ONLINE
Jagex Software (Runescape)
Bizarre Creations (Project Gotham Racing 2)
Cry Tek (Far Cry)
Nokia (N-Gage Arena)
CPP Games (Eve Online)

ART AND SOUND
Cry Tek (Far Cry)
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (Singstar/Eyetoy)
Rockstar North (Manhunt)
Revolution Games (Broken Sword: The Sleeping Dragon)
Ubisoft (Beyond Good & Evil/XIII)
Rare (Grabbed by the Ghoulies)

INNOVATION
Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (Eye Toy)
Ubisoft (XIII)
KD Lab (Perimeter)
Eurocom (Athens 2004)
Nadeo ( Trackmania)

TOOLS PROVIDER
Criterion
Havok
Quazal
Metrowerks
Softimage

SERVICES AND OUTSOURCING
Audiomotion
Air Studios
Outsource Media
Babel
Side

RECRUITMENT
Aardvark Swift
Amiqus
OPM
Interactive Selection
Datascope

DEVELOPMENT TEAM
TOCA Team (Codemasters)
Beyond Good & Evil team (Ubisoft)
Project Gotham Racing 2 team (Bizarre Creations)
EyeToy team (Sony Computer Entertainment Europe)
Freedom Fighters team (IO Interactive)

DEVELOPMENT LEGEND
Michel Ancel
Jeff Minter
Peter Molyneux

PUBLISHING HERO
SCI
Microsoft
Codemasters
Ubisoft

--- Kit

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