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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.
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.
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.
El riesgo vive siempre!
... how the Gamespy article doesn't mention Puzzle Pirates at all. :(
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