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Indie Devs Come Up Trumps At Develop Awards

by Adam Cook on July 21, 2011

In case you weren’t aware, the annual Develop awards took place last night, and it saw 17 different companies score major games industry accolades. Over 550 of the global games development elite were on hand last night to see the hottest studios in Europe take home key prizes at the Develop Industry Excellence Awards.

A panel of 100 games industry executives vote for the winners of the 19 main awards across categories for Creativity, Technology and Services and Studios. Recipients for Special Industry Recognition prizes – Development Legend and Grand Prix – are chosen after serious deliberation by the editorial team behind Develop, the games development publication which hosts the event.

CATEGORY: CREATIVITY

NEW IP
Enslaved (Ninja Theory)

NEW DOWNLOAD IP
Minecraft (Mojang Specifications)

USE OF A LICENCE OR IP
F1 2010 (Codemasters Birmingham)

VISUAL ARTS
Limbo (Playdead)

AUDIO ACCOMPLISHMENT
Papa Sangre (Somethin’ Else)

PUBLISHING HERO
Valve

CATEGORY: TECHNOLOGY AND SERVICES

TECHNICAL INNOVATION
Kinect (Microsoft Research Cambridge)

AUDIO OUTSOURCER
Side UK

VISUAL OUTSOURCER
Axis Animation

SERVICES
Audiomotion

RECRUITMENT
Specialmove

TOOLS PROVIDER
Autodesk

ENGINE
Unreal Engine 3 (Epic Games)

CATEGORY: STUDIOS

NEW STUDIO
Mojang Specifications

MICRO STUDIO
Mojang Specifications

HANDHELD STUDIO
Rovio Mobile

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
Mind Candy

IN-HOUSE STUDIO
Media Molecule

INDEPENDENT STUDIO
Crytek

SPECIAL INDUSTRY RECOGNITION

DEVELOPMENT LEGEND
Ian Livingstone

GRAND PRIX
Rovio Mobile

What do you think of the awards? Here at God is a Geek we were really excited and pleased to see Enslaved win an award for best new IP, and Papa Sangre and Limbo (keep an eye out early next week for our PSN review) were also worthy winners!

Why not pop over to our forums to tell us what you think of the winners, or if you think that there were more deserving people who lost out!