HK-47, Puzzle Pirates - Big Hits at GDC Awards

Thanks to Frictionless Insight for its article recounting the proceedings of the 2004 Game Developers Choice and Independent Games Festival Awards, which were held last night in San Jose. Multiple GDC Award winners included Call Of Duty and Prince Of Persia: The Sands Of Time, and Savage: The Battle for Newerth won the IGF independent game award, with Oasis triumphing in the Web/downloadable category. Among the highlights: "When the Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates team moved to the stage to accept the [IGF Web/Downloadable Audience Choice] award, dressed as buccaneers, they basked in the most thunderous applause of the night", and the piece also notes that "...the audience was [almost equally] vocal when HK-47 (from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) took the award for [GDC] Original Game Character of the Year." There's further coverage of the events over at GameSpy.

Comments

Re:StarWars?

[Lightwarrior]

RTFM.

"...HK-47 (from Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic) took the award for [GDC] Original Game Character of the Year."

That'd be a CHARACTER in a Star Wars game. Can you think of another amnesiac droid serial killer, who calls humans meatbags? HK-47 add a huge amount of feeling to KotOR, with his disdain for living creatures and his sordid past. His translation of the Sand People alone was priceless.

-lw

Prince of Persia was Robbed

[Anonymous Coward]

POP clearly deserved "Game of the Year". With KOTOR was a great game it had some faults and a fair ammount of bugs in the release.

Prince of Persia is the most polished and well put together game I have ever played. The game is visually stunning, the control scheme flawless, and a fantastic story that really ties the whole thing together.

Re:StarWars?

[the Man in Black]

Yeah, HK-47 provided more than one actual "laugh out loud" moment for me during that game.

Tusken Chief: (unintelligible hooting)
HK-47: The Chief demands you state your reasons for coming here. Shall I obliterate him now, master?

I'm paraphrasing, but that's pretty much how the convo went. Great stuff, and the reason why I tried to take HK with me out of the Ebon Hawk whenever possible.

What a GOOD game.

Puzzle Pirates

[BlueCup]

Hooray for Puzzle Pirates =D good to know that they're getting the recognition they deserve. I've played my fair share of mass multiplayer games and for the most part, and they're all the same, except for this one =D just... needs to be less addictive =(

Yay for HK-47.

[mrseigen]

That should teach those meatbags to mess with robots for awhile.

Funny...

[Dehumanizer]

... how the Gamespy article doesn't mention Puzzle Pirates at all. :(

Re:StarWars?

[the Man in Black]

You'll love it. Especially towards the end. The Evil path on whatever planet that was with the Old Ones is much more...satisfying.

I like to think of myself as a pretty callous individual, but even I was moved at some of the decisions are available to make. The writers apparently said "Why be a little evil when you can go balls out evil?" I'm surprised there were no puppy-kicking side quests.

Puzzle Pirates Represent!

[Zonk]

I am so glad the Puzzle Pirates team won the recognition they so richly deserve. For those of you not down with the Pirate, Three Rings' game Puzzle Pirates is an online massively multiplayer game (or, in this case, a "mmoarrrrpg") where you take on the role of a character in a world populated with islands. Within this world, your piratical character can take jobs on Merchant ships, Navy boats, and (most fun of all) fellow-pirate crewed ships. On the ships you take on an individual job, such as bilging, carpentry, sailing, or gunnery. Each of these jobs is simulated through the use of (you guessed it) a puzzle. These fun and entertaining mini-games allow you to contribute to your crew, gain booty (no, not that kind of booty), and increase your reputation with the Pirates of the seas. An incredibly fun game with none of the usual hangups or problems inherent in MMOGs.

For more on pirates, check out Talking like a pirate is fun, but annoys people, a writeup I did a long time ago. Includes a link to a most excellent techno mix of the writeup done by a friend of mine.

ARR!

I'm confused

[Snowmit]

According to Gamasutra Prince of Persia won game of the year and Beyond Good and Evil won excellence in writing. But GameSpy says that Bioware won both.

Which article is correct?