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Whilst still hot from the excitement of that BAFTA award the other week, Media Molecule have just picked up 4 new awards for LittleBigPlanet at the Game Developers Choice Awards.
Hosted by the much loved developer Tim Schafer, the awards are judged by a panel of game creators and the award ceremony forms part of the GDC conference in San Francisco. LittleBigPlanet had 7 nominations (out of a total 10 categories) and has walked off with a healthy 4 awards. Congratulations Mm!
The complete list of GDC winners and nominations is as follows:
- Best New Debut: LittleBigPlanet
- Other nominees: Braid, Sins of a Solar Empire, World of Goo and Soul Bubbles
Best Audio:Dead Space
- Other nominees: L4D, MGS4, Gears of War 2
Best Game Design: LittleBigPlanet
- Other nominees: Fallout 3, L4D, Braid and Far Cry 2
Best Downloadable Game: World of Goo
- Other nominees: Braid, N+, PixelJunk Eden, Castle Crashers
Best Handheld Game: God of War: Chains of Olympus
- Other nominees: Patapon, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, echochrome, The World Ends With You
Best Writing Award: Fallout 3
- Other nominees: Braid, MGS4, GTAIV and Far Cry 2
Best Technology Award: LittleBigPlanet
- Other nominees: Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, GTAIV and Spore
Best Visual Art Award: Prince of Persia
- Other nominees: LittleBigPlanet, Gears of War 2, MGS4 and Fallout 3
Innovation Award: LittleBigPlanet
- Other nominees: Spore, World of Goo, Boom Blox, Braid
Game of the Year Award: Fallout 3
- Other nominees: Fable 2, LittleBigPlanet, Left 4 Dead, GTAIV
- Ambassador Award: Tommy Tallarico
- Pioneer Award: Harmonix’s Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy
- Life Time Acheivement Award: Hideo Kojima
More details about the awards on the official site.
The third British Academy Video Games Awards took place in London tonight. Everyone from B-List Celebrities, Games Industry professionals, journalists and those “PR types” attended.
And of course, amongst the developers there, were the Media Molecule team, apparently arriving in limousines - nice.
Yep. That looks like a video games awards event…
All sorts of famous people attend these kind of things…
Yay! Mm pick up their Bafta award.
Media Molecule and LittleBigPlanet walked away with the BAFTA Award for Artistic Achievement, which was handed to them by the extremely awesome Charlie Brooker.
The game was nominated in the following award categories….
- Casual - Electronic Arts’ BOOM BLOX
- Best use of Audio - Dead Space
- Technical Achievement - Spore
- Original Score - Dead Space
- GAME Award of 2008 (voted for by the public) - Call of Duty 4
- Artistic Achievement - LittleBigPlanet
For a full list of nominations (and soon, winners), check out the BAFTA Video Games Awards 2009 nominations page.
The entire team at Media Molecule are currently travelling from their offices in Guildford to the London Hilton in Park Lane in a convoy of Limos. Here they will be attending the British Academy Video Games Awards ceremony, where our beloved LittleBigPlanet is nominated for six of the prestigious awards. The BBC visited the Mm offices ‘today’ to run a little piece on them…
We wish you all the best of luck, let’s hope to see A D.I.C.E style sweeping occur! We’ll be updating with the results as soon as we get them.
Gamasutra has posted coverage of Alex Evans’ talk at the D.I.C.E conference, which he gave after Mm won eight of twelve available AIAS awards the night before.
“I don’t want to paint a picture that we’re just a bunch of hippies in a room,“ Evans added.
“How do you make sure you’re not just making shit?“ he asked, saying that as a studio director he considered that question many times. He recalled Media Molecule going through many, many iterations of its core user creation tools, many of which were only practical for creating “melty lumps of shit.“
The user tools ended up needing to be powerful enough to create production-quality content. “We are just power users,“ Evans explained—the PC-based tools the team uses are simply more efficient versions of the same tools that ship with the game on PlayStation 3.
The decision to pursue that focus with the tools was one that required great effort and caused many headaches, he admitted, but it “paid off in huge spades.“
Interesting, that was always a bit of an unanswered question to us, whether the developers used a more enhanced set of tools or not, and it appears they do. Oh to get our hands on ‘em!
Read the full report on Alex’s talk over on Gamasutra.
After the announcement that LittleBigPlanet and Media Molecule were up for a grand total of 10 nominations at The Interactive Achivement Awards taking place in Las Vegas this week, the winners have now been announced and LittleBigPlanet has taken 8 awards home.
Speaking on his Twitter feed, a clearly excited Alex Evans said:
We won! A lot! Go team mm! Thanks academy judges
There’s much to be exicted about too, just take a look at all the awards:
- Overall Game of the Year
- Console Game of the Year
- Family Game of the Year
- Outstanding Achievement in Game Direction
- Outstanding Achievement in Art Direction
- Outstanding Achievement in Visual Engineering
- Outstanding Character Performance
- Outstanding Innovation in Gaming
Congratulations Media Molecule!
The Interactive Achievement Awards are part of the D.I.C.E summit, which ends today. As part of the summit, Alex is giving a talk about LittleBigPlanet, its user generated content and the game’s design philosophy.
Full details of awards and nominations are available on the official AIAS site.
Over the last few days we have observed severe weather conditions down on the LittleBigPlanet, a storm of epic proportions with award nominations raining down upon the heads of all who dwell there.
BAFTA has listed LittleBigPlanet as a nominee for the best game in the Artistic Achievement, Casual, Original Score, Technical Achievement, and Use of Audio categories, plus the Game Award of 2008, which is voted for by the public - (so get voting!).
At the GDC Game Developer’s Choice awards, to be hosted by Tim Schafer once again, LBP will be up for a potential seven of the ten awards: Best Game Design, Best Visual Art, Best Technology, Best Audio, Best Debut, Innovation and the apparently coveted Game of the Year award.
If all those weren’t enough, today the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year, the Design Museum’s annual exploration of the most innovative, interesting and forward-looking new work in design of all kinds, has shortlisted LittleBigPlanet for their Interactive Award 2009.
All of these on top of the 10 nominations at the Interactive Achievement Awards, and the host of awards won at the end of last year.
Congratulations to Media Molecule for this impressive bundle of prizes, and good luck at the ceremonies!
The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences have today announced the nominations for The Interactive Achivement Awards, which will be taking place on February 19, 2009 at the Red Rock Resort in Las Vegas.
LittleBigPlanet leads with an impressive 10 nominations from industry leaders and members of the interactive entertainment software business. The competition isn’t light either, as it’s up against the likes of GTA IV, Fallout 3, MGS4 - infact, all the big name games of 2008. Here are just three of those ten categories in which LBP has been nominated…
Overall Game of the Year
• Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks / Bethesda Game Studio)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games / Rockstar North)
• Left 4 Dead (Valve Software / Valve Software)
• LittleBigPlanet (Sony Computer Entertainment / Media Molecule)
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots (Konami Digital Entertainment Inc, Kojima Productions)
Console Game of the Year
• Fallout 3 (Bethesda Softworks / Bethesda Game Studio)
• Gears of War 2 (Microsoft Game Studios / Epic Games, Inc)
• Grand Theft Auto IV (Rockstar Games / Rockstar North)
• LittleBigPlanet (Sony Computer Entertainment / Media Molecule)
• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots
Outstanding Innovation in Gaming:
• Braid (Microsoft Game Studios / Number None)
• Left 4 Dead (Valve Software / Valve Software)
• LittleBigPlanet (Sony Computer Entertainment / Media Molecule)
• Spore (Electronic Arts / Maxis)
• Wii Fit (Nintendo / Nintendo)
Joseph Olin, president, The Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences said:
This was an exciting year for games, The depth of talent and creativity in this industry continues to amaze me and we are honored to highlight some of the most impressive games of the year at the Interactive Achievement Awards. The 2009 nominees indeed reflect a stronghold of talent embodying the best and brightest in this field.
It’s likely then, that LittleBigPlanet will be going on to win some of its 10 nominations, and of course we’ll report back with the results on February 19th. More information can be found on the official site at www.interactive.org.
Perhaps Media Molecule will have to get a bigger awards cabinet...
Little Big Planet has bagged a massive 3 awards in old time hardcore gaming magazine EDGE‘s 2008 awards. Media Molecule also gain an award bringing the grand total to an award-storming 4.
The awards appear in January’s edition of the magazine in the UK, and the game picks up Best Game, Best Innovation, Best Visual Design with Mm picking up Best Developer. The news comes just after Media Molecule rode off with the Studio of the Year award from the Spike 2008 Video Game awards with LBP also picking up the Best PS3 Game award.
The full list of EDGE awards is as follows:
Best game:
- LittleBigPlanet - winner
- GTA IV
- Fable II
Best Innovation:
- LittleBigPlanet - winner
- NXE
- Left 4 Dead
Best Visual Design
- LittleBigPlanet - winner
- Street Fighter IV
- Far Cry 2
Best Audio Design:
- Dead Space - winner
- GTA IV
- No More Heroes
Best hardware:
- Xbox 360 - winner
- PS3
- Wii
Best Publisher:
- Microsoft Game Studios - winner
- Electronic Arts
- Sony Computer Entertainment
Best Online Experience:
- Left 4 Dead - winner
- LittleBigPlanet
- Gears of War 2
Best Developer:
- Media Molecule - winner
- Criterion Games
- Rockstar North
EDGE magazine is well known for its hard-line, unforgiving reviews so it comes as no surprise that a truly excellent game like Little Big Planet passes their high standards with flying colours.
The only award the LBP was nominated for, but didn’t win - was the Best Online Experience and considering the hiccups from the games launch, it’s perhaps understandable that LBP missed out to zombie kill-a-thon Left 4 Dead.
Another huge congratulations goes out to Media Molecule and their clearly excellent product, Little Big Planet.
Media Molecule have won Studio of the Year at the much publicised 2008: Spike Video Game Awards. Woohoo!.
Media Molecule can truly call themselves award winning, as both them and their game LittleBigPlanet now have enough awards to require a trophy cabinet.
Joystiq posted a snippet of an interview with Alex Evans at the awards, who gives us yet another tantalising piece of DLC information:
The LittleBigPlanet packs are going to be a lot more than what people are thinking they will be. They will be very substantial.
Keep up the good work guys, and congratulations!
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