Game Developer Winners
Posted: Dec 18, 2006 @ 8:43pmMagazine Honors the Year's Seven Best Game Creation Tools, Inducts Microsoft Visual Studio to the Front Line Awards Hall of Fame
SAN FRANCISCO - Dec. 18, 2006 - CMP Technology's Game Developer has named the winners for the ninth annual Front Line Awards, celebrating the year's best game-making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, hardware, game engine, middleware, and books. In addition, the magazine has revealed that Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers, Microsoft Visual Studio, is the 2006 inductee to the Front Line Awards Hall of Fame. Each year, honor is bestowed upon a product that has made an outstanding contribution to the game development industry for five years or more. All winners will be profiled in the January 2007 issue of Game Developer, available on newsstands beginning January 17, 2007.
The complete list of winners of the 2006 Game Developer Front Line Awards is as follows:
Programming Tool: Perforce version 2006.1, Perforce Software, www.perforce.com/perforce/products.html
Art Tool: Modo 202, Luxology, www.luxology.com
Engine: Unreal Engine 3, Epic, www.unrealtechnology.com
Middleware: AI.implant, Engenuity Technologies Inc., www.ai-implant.com
Hardware: PhysX, Ageia and BFG Technologies, www.bfgtech.com/physx
Book: ShaderX4: Advanced Rendering Techniques, Wolfgang Engel (ed.), Charles River Media, January 2006, www.charlesriver.com
Audio Tool: Wwise 2006.2.1, Audiokinetic, www.audiokinetic.com
Hall of Fame: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft, www. microsoft.com/vstudio
"Game Developer heartily congratulates the winners of the 2006 Front Line Awards,"
said Simon Carless, Editor-In-Chief of Game Developer. "These tools represent the most innovative, user-friendly, and useful products from behind the scenes of the world's best video games and we are proud to give them a bit of the glory they deserve."
Game Developer's mission for more than ten years has been to provide game developers with information, news, and articles that pertain directly to them. The Front Line Awards are the magazine's official way of recognizing the tools that developers need to do their jobs. Each year, Game Developer looks at the powerful lineup of new products and new releases of favorite tools, from game engines to books, and selects the top five in seven different categories. After a comprehensive judging process by a distinguished panel of professional game developers specializing in the fields relevant to the various categories, one winner is chosen in each.
For more information, please visit Game Developer online at www.gdmag.com.
SAN FRANCISCO - Dec. 18, 2006 - CMP Technology's Game Developer has named the winners for the ninth annual Front Line Awards, celebrating the year's best game-making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, hardware, game engine, middleware, and books. In addition, the magazine has revealed that Microsoft's flagship software development product for computer programmers, Microsoft Visual Studio, is the 2006 inductee to the Front Line Awards Hall of Fame. Each year, honor is bestowed upon a product that has made an outstanding contribution to the game development industry for five years or more. All winners will be profiled in the January 2007 issue of Game Developer, available on newsstands beginning January 17, 2007.
The complete list of winners of the 2006 Game Developer Front Line Awards is as follows:
Programming Tool: Perforce version 2006.1, Perforce Software, www.perforce.com/perforce/products.html
Art Tool: Modo 202, Luxology, www.luxology.com
Engine: Unreal Engine 3, Epic, www.unrealtechnology.com
Middleware: AI.implant, Engenuity Technologies Inc., www.ai-implant.com
Hardware: PhysX, Ageia and BFG Technologies, www.bfgtech.com/physx
Book: ShaderX4: Advanced Rendering Techniques, Wolfgang Engel (ed.), Charles River Media, January 2006, www.charlesriver.com
Audio Tool: Wwise 2006.2.1, Audiokinetic, www.audiokinetic.com
Hall of Fame: Microsoft Visual Studio, Microsoft, www. microsoft.com/vstudio
"Game Developer heartily congratulates the winners of the 2006 Front Line Awards,"
said Simon Carless, Editor-In-Chief of Game Developer. "These tools represent the most innovative, user-friendly, and useful products from behind the scenes of the world's best video games and we are proud to give them a bit of the glory they deserve."
Game Developer's mission for more than ten years has been to provide game developers with information, news, and articles that pertain directly to them. The Front Line Awards are the magazine's official way of recognizing the tools that developers need to do their jobs. Each year, Game Developer looks at the powerful lineup of new products and new releases of favorite tools, from game engines to books, and selects the top five in seven different categories. After a comprehensive judging process by a distinguished panel of professional game developers specializing in the fields relevant to the various categories, one winner is chosen in each.
For more information, please visit Game Developer online at www.gdmag.com.