GDAA Industry Award Winners 2007

Company
Game Developers Association of Australia

And the winner is.... Puzzle Quest!!!

(press release)

Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords Scoops the Field

MELBOURNE - Saturday 17 November, 2007 -

At the conclusion of GDAA’s highly successful Game Connect: Asia Pacific 2007 Conference and Expo, the GDAA held its Annual Industry Awards Dinner at which the following winners were announced before 200 guests including GDAA members, industry and government representatives.

Best Game - 2007
Winner: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive)

Best New Startup (Adam Lancman Award)
Winner: Redtribe
Special Commendation: Acheron Design

Best Console Title - 2007
Winner: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive)

Best PC Title - 2007
Winner: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive)
Special Commendation: Fury (Auran)

Best Handheld Title - 2007
Winner: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive)

Best Mobile Title - 2007
Winner: The Fast & the Furious: Fugitive 3D (Firemint)

Best Gameplay - 2007
Winner: Puzzle Quest: Challenge of the Warlords (Infinite Interactive)

Best Graphics - 2007
Winner: Viva Piñata: Party Animals (Krome Studios)

Best Audio - 2007
Winner: Viva Piñata: Party Animals (Krome Studios)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 19/11/07 - 10:20 AMPermalink
  • 1. Anonymous Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:07:40 EST

    grats infinite interactive and the other winners :)

  • 2. LiveWire Mon, 19 Nov 2007 10:38:06 EST

    Grats and well deserved, Puzzle Quest has held me glued to my DS for hours on end!

  • 3. Anonymous Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:06:54 EST

    a clean sweep by Puzzle Quest!! what's with the special commendation? ...sympathy vote? :/

  • 4. Anonymous Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:15:02 EST

    Well done to the guys on Viva Pinata too for sound and graphics. Ron Marc - awesome job on graphics. A lot was asked of you and man you really delivered!

  • 1. Anonymous Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:43:00 EST

    Ron's the concept artist on the team. Why does he get special mention. All the guys did a fabolous job :)

  • 1. Anonymous Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:39:45 EST

    Absolutely. Awesome job by the whole team. I'd list you all if I knew who you all are.

  • 5. John P Mon, 19 Nov 2007 11:46:33 EST

    Congratulations to Steve and the Infinite-Interactive team! A new IP and a great seller to boot - well done!

  • 6. Anonymous Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:05:39 EST

    Who win best independent game?

  • 1. Chameleon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:36:10 EST

    It was a group from QANTM I think.

  • 2. Souri Mon, 19 Nov 2007 12:47:09 EST

    Team Sumo

  • 1. xBaaDf00d Tue, 20 Nov 2007 10:43:58 EST

    Was that the Mayashi madness Guys, with the 4 player sumo game :) Cause that was rocken

  • 7. Anonymous Mon, 19 Nov 2007 13:03:03 EST

    Infinite interactive hell yeah. I have a cool game made by them. It's a bit old but I have but im about to play it now WARLORDS BATTLE CRY 3.

  • 8. rk Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:18:11 EST

    theyre a quality studio at infinite - they just make one good game after another - congrats to them all, it was a well-deserved win

  • 9. Chameleon Mon, 19 Nov 2007 20:47:42 EST

    Just goes to show that Australia CAN make a successful original IP and WILL continue to in future. I couldn't be happier with the result... well, maybe I could if I was the one that came up with Puzzle Quest =0P

  • 10. Souri Tue, 20 Nov 2007 00:58:13 EST

    There've been some great titles this year, but this really was the year for Puzzle Quest, and it was great to see Puzzle Quest get the acclamation it deserved at the awards dinner. And it couldn't happen to a better bloke than Steve Fawkner! We have his presentation from Game Connect on video, and we'll be uploading it soon, but his passion and enthusiasm for games in it is very apparent. It was interesting to hear his thoughts on some of the social networking aspects in thriving game / communities like Habbo hotel (or what Phil Harrison from Sony would term as Game 3.0 e.g littlebigplanet), and so it'll be interesting to see if there'll be any influence of that in any future Infinite Interactive games.