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gdc 2017
Overwatch Takes Home Top Honors At 17th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards
The Game Developers Choice Awards gave out a bevy of honors tonight. Overwatch took home the big award tonight. Here were the rest:
- Ambassador Award: Mark Deloura
- Pioneer Award: Jordan Mechner
- Lifetime Achievement Award: Tim Sweeney
- Best Technology: Uncharted 4
- Best Audio: Inside
- Best Narrative: Firewatch
- Best Visual Art: Inside
- Best VR/AR Game: Job Simulator
- Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Pokémon Go
- Best Game Design: Overwatch
- Best Debut: Campo Santo
- Innovation Award: No Man's Sky
- Audience Award: Battlefield 1
- Game of the Year: Overwatch
The Independent Game Festival awards are as follows:
- Excellence In Visual Art: Inside
- Excellence In Audio: GoNNER
- Alt.CTRL.GDC Award: Fearsphere
- Excellence In Design: Quadrilateral Cowboy
- Excellence In Narrative: Ladykiller In A Bind
- Nuovo Award: Okiospiel, Book 1
- Best Student Game: Un Pas Fragile
- Audience Award: Hyper Light Drifter
- Seumas McNally Grand Prize: Quadrilateral Cowboy
