British Academy Games Award for Game Innovation

The British Academy Games Award for Technical Achievement (formerly, British Academy Games Award for Game Innovation) is an award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) as part of the British Academy Games Awards. It is given in honour of "the best innovation in gameplay or technology". The award was initially known as Innovation at the 3rd British Academy Games Awards ceremony, held in 2006, and was awarded to ''Dr. Kawashima's Brain Training: How Old is Your Brain?'', developed and published by Nintendo. The award was absent from ceremonies held in 2008 to 2010. before returning to the 8th ceremony held in 2011, under the name Game Innovation. For the 2020 awards, the category was renamed again for Technical Achievement as to encompass gameplay programming and visual engineering.

Since its inception, the award has been given to thirteen games. As developer, Nintendo Entertainment Analysis & Development has won the most awards with two. It is also the most nominated developer with four awards. The most won publishers are Nintendo and Sony Interactive Entertainment with two awards each, and the most publishers is Sony with eleven. The most recent recipient of the award is '' Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart'', developed by Insomniac Games and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years are listed as per BAFTA convention, and generally correspond to the year of game release in the United Kingdom.

Multiple nominations

Developers

The following developers received two or more Game Innovation awards:

The following developers received two or more Game Innovation nominations:

Publishers

The following publishers received two or more Game Innovation awards:

The following publishers received two or more Game Innovation nominations:

References

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Awards for video game technology