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for outstanding game developers and

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held on March 18, 2020, hosted by Kim Swift. Though normally held at the

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, due to the 2020 coronavirus outbreak, the conference was postponed to later in 2020, and the awards were presented via online streaming media, alongside the

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awards. Kate Edwards, former head of the International Game Developers Association and current head of the Global Game Jam, will receive the Ambassador Award for her past and current work in the industry. Following from a similar event with The Game Awards 2019,

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worked with several of the games featured in the Awards as well as other indie developers to present forty game demos to be available from March 18 to March 23 through

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as part of the Steam Game Festival - Spring Edition. Keighley planned to offer further events throughout the year to tie to other award shows and game conferences. In addition to games that were featured as part of the GDC and IGF, the Steam Game Festival also featured demos from other GDC-sponsored events that had been affected by the pandemic such as the Indie Megabooth and the Day of the Devs.

Winners and Nominees

Nominees were announced on January 8, 2020, and winners (in bold below) named on March 18, 2020.

Game of the Year

* '' Untitled Goose Game'' (House House/Panic) ** '' Death Stranding'' ( Kojima Productions/

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) ** '' Control'' ( Remedy Entertainment/ 505 Games) ** '' Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice'' (

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) ** ''

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'' (Mobius Digital/

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)

Best Audio

* '' Control'' ( Remedy Entertainment/ 505 Games) ** '' Death Stranding'' ( Kojima Productions/

) ** '' Sayonara Wild Hearts'' ( Simogo/

) ** '' Untitled Goose Game'' (House House/Panic) ** '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'' (

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)

Best Debut Developer

* ZA/UM ('' Disco Elysium'') ** Mobius Digital (''

'') ** William Chyr Studios('' Manifold Garden'') ** Foam Sword Games ('' Knights and Bikes'') ** Chance Agency ('' Neo Cab'')

Best Design

* '' Baba Is You'' (Hempuli) ** ''

'' (Mobius Digital/

) ** '' Death Stranding'' ( Kojima Productions/

) ** '' Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice'' (

) ** '' Untitled Goose Game'' (House House/Panic)

Best Mobile Game

* ''What the Golf?'' (Triband/ The Label) ** '' Sayonara Wild Hearts'' ( Simogo/

) ** '' Grindstone'' ( Capybara Games) ** '' Sky: Children of the Light'' ( thatgamecompany) ** '' Call of Duty: Mobile'' (TiMi Studios/

)

Innovation Award

* '' Baba Is You'' (Hempuli) ** '' Untitled Goose Game'' (House House/Panic) ** '' Disco Elysium'' (ZA/UM) ** '' Death Stranding'' ( Kojima Productions/

) ** ''

'' (Mobius Digital/

)

Best Narrative

* '' Disco Elysium'' (ZA/UM) ** '' Control'' ( Remedy Entertainment/ 505 Games) ** '' Death Stranding'' ( Kojima Productions/

) ** ''

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'' (

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/ Private Division) ** ''

'' (Mobius Digital/

)

Best Technology

* '' Control'' ( Remedy Entertainment/ 505 Games) ** '' Death Stranding'' ( Kojima Productions/

) ** '' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare'' (

) ** ''

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'' (

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) ** '' Noita'' (Nolla Games)

Best Visual Art

* '' Control'' ( Remedy Entertainment/ 505 Games) ** '' Death Stranding'' ( Kojima Productions/

) ** '' Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice'' (

) ** '' Sayonara Wild Hearts'' ( Simogo/

) ** '' Disco Elysium'' (ZA/UM)

Best VR/AR Game

* '' Vader Immortal'' (ILMxLAB/

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) ** '' Blood & Truth'' ( SCEE Studio London/

) ** '' Asgard's Wrath'' ( Sanzaru Games/ Oculus Studios) ** ''

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'' (Stress Level Zero) ** '' Pistol Whip'' (Cloudhead Games)

Audience Award

* '' Sky: Children of the Light'' ( Thatgamecompany)

Pioneer Award

* Roberta Williams

Ambassador Award

* Kate Edwards

In Memorandum

The ceremony honored the following individuals that died over the prior year: * Stephan Ash * Keith Boesky * Ryan Brant * Jason Brookes * Craig Goodman * Anita Hamil Frazier * Kazuhisa Hashimoto * Steve Henifin * Takashi Iwade * Brad McQuaid * Patrick Munnik * Andy O'Neil * Tim Skelly * Mark Vitello * Jose Zambrano

References

External links

Official website
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