Congratulations to everyone who made the shortlist in this record-breaking year!
CREATIVE ACHIEVEMENT
New Games IP
sponsored by Pole to Win
sponsored by Pole to Win
- Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games
- Overcooked - Ghost Town Games
- Dawn of Titans - NaturalMotion
- Yooka-Laylee - Playtonic Games
- Virginia - Variable State
- Snake Pass - Sumo Digital
- Frontier – Planet Coaster
- Inside - Playdead
- Little Nightmares - Bandai Namco
- Human Fall Flat - Curve Digital
Animation New for 2017
Unity 3D
Unity 3D
- Horizon Zero Dawn – Guerrilla Games
- Blackwood Crossing – PaperSeven
- Yooka Yaylee - Playtonic
- Virginia - Variable State
- Total War: Warhammer - Creative Assembly
- The Sexy Brutale - Cavalier Games
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine - CD Projekt Red
- Planet Coaster - Frontier
Visual Design New for 2017
- Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games
- Forza Horizon 3 - Playground Games
- Halo Wars 2- Creative Assembly
- Yooka-Laylee - Playtonic Games
- Batman: Arkham VR - Rocksteady Studios
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – Blood and Wine - CD Projekt Red
- Virginia - Variable State
- Dawn of Titans - NaturalMotion
Music Design New for 2017
- Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games
- Forza Horizon 3 - Playground Games
- The Sexy Brutale - Cavalier Games
- Virginia - Variable State
- Planet Coaster - Frontier
- Sniper Elite 4 - Rebellion
- Hue - Fiddlesticks Games
- PlayStation VR Worlds - Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Total War: Warhammer - Creative Assembly
- Get Even - Bandai Namco
Sound Design New for 2017
sponsored by Dolby
sponsored by Dolby
- PlayStation VR Worlds - Sony Interactive Entertainment
- Until Dawn: Rush of Blood - Supermassive Games
- Forza Horizon 3 - Playground Games
- Halo Wars 2 - Creative Assembly
- Sniper Elite 4- Rebellion
- Battlefield 1- EA DICE
- Stories Untold - No Code
- Planet Coaster - Frontier
- Batman: Arkham VR - Rocksteady Studios
Best Writing New for 2017
- Horizon Zero Dawn - Guerrilla Games
- Torment: Tides of Numenera - inXile Entertainment
- Sunless Sea - Failbetter Games
- The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine - CD Projekt Red
- The Sexy Brutale - Cavalier Games
- Stories Untold - No Code
- The Bunker - Splendy Games
- Blackwood Crossing - PaperSeven
- Batman: Arkham VR - Rocksteady Games
- Get Even - Bandai Namco
Best Performance
sponsored by UKIE
sponsored by UKIE
- SIGNA (Inside) - Playdead
- Anna Acton (Hue)- Fiddlesticks Games
- Doug Cockle (The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt - Blood and Wine) - CD Projekt Red
- Larry Fessenden (Until Dawn: Rush of Blood) - Supermassive Games
- Jon McKellan (Stories Untold) - No Code
- Adam Brown (The Bunker) - Splendy Games
- Mark Hamill (Batman: Arkham VR) - Rocksteady Studios
- John DiMaggio (LEGO Dimensions Adventure Time Level Pack) - TT Games
- Brian Blessed (Loco Dojo) - Make Real
Publishing Hero
- Team17
- 505 Games
- Curve Digital
- Sega Europe Ltd
- All 4 Games
- Kiss Ltd
- Wales Interactive
- Dovetail Games
- Devolver Digital
- ID@Xbox
Micro/Start Up Studio
sponsored by Perforce
sponsored by Perforce
- Splendy Games
- Ghost Town Games
- Variable State
- Fiddlesticks Games
- No Code
- Ant Workshop
Independent Studio
sponsored by Amiqus
sponsored by Amiqus
- Supermassive Games
- Playground Games
- Playsport Games
- CD Projekt Red
- Playdead
- Sumo Digital
- Rebellion
- Frontier
In-House Studio
sponsored by Green Man Gaming
sponsored by Green Man Gaming
- NaturalMotion
- Creative Assembly
- Rocksteady Games
- Reflections, a Ubisoft Studio
- TT Games
- Guerrilla Games
- Team17
- Jagex
- Dovetail Games
New Studio
sponsored by Games London
sponsored by Games London
- Cavalier Games
- Ghost Town Games
- Variable State
- Playtonic Games
- Playsport Games
- Splendy Games
- Fiddlesticks Games
SPECIALIST CONTRIBUTION
Creative Outsourcer - Visual & Development
- Multiple projects - Axis Animation
- Lost (Amazon Lumberyard) - Realtime UK
- Hybrid Wars (Wargaming WG Labs) - Flipbook
- Virginia - Pink Kong Studios
- Multiple projects - d3t
Design & Creativity Tool
- Popcorn FX - Persistant Studios
- Dehumaniser - Krotos Ltd
- WWise - Audiokinetic
- GameMaker Studio - YoYo Games
- Maya 2017 - Autodesk
Tools Provider - Production
sponsored by Testronic Lab
sponsored by Testronic Lab
- Favro
- Perforce Software
- Popcorn FX - Persistant Studios
- Plan of Attack on behalf of Amazon Game Studios
- YoYo Games
Engine
- Amazon Lumberyard
- Guerrilla Games (Decima Engine)
- Epic Games (Unreal Engine)
- YoYo Games (Gamemaker Studio)
- Unity
Services
- Audiomotion Studios
- Flipbook
- Formosa Interactive
- GameDev Network Limited
- d3t
- Player Research
- Red Kite Games
QA & Localisation
- Allcorrect
- Jinglebell Localization
- LocalizeDirect Ltd
- Lollipop Robot
- Testronic
- MoGi Group Ltd
- Testology
- VMC
- Universally Speaking
Recruiter
- Aardvark Swift
- Amiqus
- Avatar Games
- CV Bay Ltd
- Datascope Recruitment
- OPM Response
- Skillsearch Games & Interactive
Creative Outsourcer - Audio
- Side UK – Battlefield 1 (EA Dice)
- Submersion Audio – Robo Recall (Epic Games)
- Nimrod – Horizon Zero Dawn (Guerrilla Games)
- Sounding Sweet - Forza Horizon 3 (Playground Games)
- 93 Steps – Ride 2 (Milestone)
- Soundcuts Ltd – Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)
- Formosa Interactive – Multiple projects
- Sweet Justice Sound – Multiple projects
Technology Provider
- Allegorithmic
- Dimensional Imaging (DI4D™)
- Epic Games
- Multiplay
- OptiTrack
- Speech Graphics
- Spirit AI
- Tazman-Audio Ltd
Studio of the Year
sponsored by EPIC
sponsored by EPIC
- Supermassive Games
- Guerrilla Games
- Playground Games
- Sumo Digital
- Creative Assembly
- CD Projekt Red
- Team 17
- Rebellion