God of War wins GDC 2019 Game of the Year

At this year’s GDC 2019 games conference the winners have been announced and God of War has won the GDC 2019 Game of the Year. Together with plenty of indie games winning big, accounting for eight of the ceremony’s thirteen winners. God of War took the highest honour adding to many awards the game has won over the last 12 months.

Katie Stern, General Manager of the Game Developers Conference said : “The Game Developers Choice Awards represent the most refined games of the year, and the sheer variety of games honored tonight showed that games can still represent wholly new and unique creative visions. A number of independently developed titles like Celeste, Gris and Florence helped prove how internal or deeply personal turmoil can make for massively appealing games for millions of fans. While games like God of War and Red Dead Redemption 2 capture our imagination with poignant moments juxtaposed against epic tales of staggering scale and technical prowess. We embrace and accept all these amazingly creative works, and we’re proud to recognize these nominees and winners alike for the imagination and hard work that brought them here.”

A list of winners at this years GDC 2019 event include :

Best Audio : Celeste (Matt Makes Games)
Best Debut : Mountains (Florence)
Best Design : Into the Breach (Subset Games)
Best Mobile Game : Florence (Mountains)
Innovation Award : Nintendo Labo (Nintendo EPD / Nintendo)
Best Narrative : Return of the Obra Dinn (Lucas Pope / 3909)
Best Technology : Red Dead Redemption 2 (Rockstar Games)
Best Visual Art : Gris (Nomada Studio / Devolver Digital)
Best VR/AR Game : Beat Saber (Beat Games)
Audience Award : Beat Saber (Beat Games)
Game of the Year : God of War (Sony Santa Monica / Sony Interactive Entertainment)
Pioneer Award : Rieko Kodama
Lifetime Achievement Award : Amy Hennig

Independent Games Festival Awards :

Excellence in Visual Art ($3,000): Mirror Drop by Ian Lilley
Excellence in Audio ($3,000): Paratopic by Arbitrary Metric
Excellence in Design ($3,000): Opus Magnum by Zachtronics
Excellence in Narrative ($3,000): Return of the Obra Dinn by Lucas Pope
Nuovo Award ($3,000): Black Room by Cassie McQuater
Best Student Game ($3,000): After Hours by Bahiyya Khan, Claire Meekel, Tim Flusk and Abi Meekel
Audience Award ($3,000): Ethereal by Nonsense Arts
[email protected] Gaming Heroes Award: Jerry Lawson
Alt.Ctrl.GDC Award ($3,000): Hot Swap – All Hands On Deck by Peter Gyory and Clement Zheng
Seamus McNally Grand Prize ($30,000): Return of the Obra Dinn by Lucas Pope

Source: GDC 2019