GDC：ゲーム・オブ・ザ・イヤーは『ウィッチャー3』、『MGSV』や『Fallout 4』下す

ゲーム開発者たちの祭典、GDC（ゲームデベロッパーズ カンファレンス）2016にて、数あるタイトルの中からゲーム開発者自身が優れたタイトルを選出する「16th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards」が開催された。

最優秀賞となるGame of the Yearに輝いたのは、国内外の一般ゲーマーからの評価も高かった『The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt（ウィッチャー3 ワイルドハント）』で、『MGSV:TPP』や『Fallout 4』といった強豪を下しての勝利となった。

16th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards

• Best Debut: Moon Studios (Ori and the Blind Forest)
• Best Audio: Crypt of the NecroDancer (Brace Yourself Games)
• Innovation Award: Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• Best Technology: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)
• Best Visual Art: Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios)
• Best Narrative: Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• Best Design: Rocket League (Psyonix)
• Best Handheld/Mobile Game: Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• Audience Award: Life is Strange (DONTNOD Entertainment)
• Game of the Year: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (CD Projekt RED)
• Pioneer Award: Markus "Notch" Persson
• Ambassador Award: Tracy Fullerton
• Lifetime Achievement Award: Todd Howard

GOTY以外で目立つのは、革新的な推理アドヴェンチャー『Her Story』（iTunes / Steam / 解説記事）や、5回も壇上に登った2DドットRPG『Undertale』（Steam）などで、これらもユーザーから非常に高い評価を得ている。

日本勢のゲームも任天堂などがノミネートを果たしたものの、残念ながら受賞には至っていない。すべてのノミネート作品と受賞作品は下記のとおり。

Game of the Year

• Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
• 【受賞】The Witcher 3 (CD Projekt RED / CD Projekt)
• Metal Gear Solid V (Kojima Productions / Konami)
• Bloodborne (FromSoftware / Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Rocket League (Psyonix)

Innovation Award

• 【受賞】Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• Super Mario Maker (Nintendo EAD Group No. 4 / Nintendo)
• UNDERTALE (Toby Fox)
• Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2 / Nintendo)
• The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.)

Best Debut

• Studio Wildcard (ARK: Survival Evolved)
• Toby Fox(UNDERTALE)
• 【受賞】Moon Studios (Ori and the Blind Forest)
• Moppin (Downwell)
• Steel Crate Games (Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes)

Best Design

• 【受賞】Rocket League (Psyonix)
• Metal Gear Solid V (Kojima Productions / Konami)
• Bloodborne (FromSoftware / Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios/ Bethesda Softworks)
• Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2 / Nintendo)

Best Handheld/Mobile Game

• Lara Croft: GO (Square Enix Montreal / Square Enix)
• Fallout Shelter (Bethesda Game Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
• Downwell (Moppin / Devolver Digital)
• 【受賞】Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• AlphaBear (Spry Fox)

Best Visual Art

• 【受賞】Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios / Microsoft Studios)
• The Witcher 3 (CD Projekt RED / CD Projekt)
• Star Wars Battlefront (DICE / Electronic Arts)
• Bloodborne (FromSoftware / Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Splatoon (Nintendo EAD Group No. 2 / Nintendo)

Best Narrative

• 【受賞】Her Story (Sam Barlow)
• The Witcher 3 (CD Projekt RED / CD Projekt)
• Life is Strange (Dontnod Entertainment / Square Enix)
• UNDERTALE (Toby Fox)
• The Beginner's Guide (Everything Unlimited Ltd.)

Best Audio

• Star Wars Battlefront (DICE / Electronic Arts)
• Ori and the Blind Forest (Moon Studios / Microsoft Studios)
• Everybody's Gone to the Rapture (The Chinese Room / Sony Computer Entertainment)
• Metal Gear Solid V (Kojima Productions / Konami)
• 【受賞】Crypt of the NecroDancer (Brace Yourself Games)

Best Technology

• Metal Gear Solid V (Kojima Productions / Konami)
• 【受賞】The Witcher 3 (CD Projekt RED / CD Projekt)
• Star Wars Battlefront (DICE / Electronic Arts)
• Fallout 4 (Bethesda Game Studios / Bethesda Softworks)
• Just Cause 3 (Avalanche Studios / Square Enix)

Audience Award

• 【受賞】Life Is Strange

2016 Independent Games Festival

Seumas McNally Grand Prize

• Darkest Dungeon
• 【受賞】Her Story
• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
• Mini Metro
• SUPERHOT
• UNDERTALE

Excellence in Visual Art

• Armello
• Darkest Dungeon
• GNOG
• Mini Metro
• 【受賞】OXENFREE
• PANORAMICAL

Excellence in Design

• Her Story
• Infinifactory
• 【受賞】Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
• Kingdom
• Mini Metro
• SUPERHOT

Excellence in Audio

• Darkest Dungeon
• Lumini
• 【受賞】Mini Metro
• PANORAMICAL
• That Dragon, Cancer
• UNDERTALE

Excellence in Narrative

• Black Closet
• 【受賞】Her Story
• That Dragon, Cancer
• The Beginner's Guide
• The Magic Circle
• UNDERTALE

Nuovo Award

• 【受賞】Cibele
• Fantastic Contraption
• Her Story
• Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
• orchids to dusk
• PANORAMICAL
• Progress
• The Beginner's Guide

Best Student Game

• Ape Out
• 【受賞】Beglitched
• Chambara
• Circa Infinity
• orchids to dusk
• Pitfall Planet

Audience Award

• 【受賞】UNDERTALE

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Source: GDC