CMP's Game Developer Magazine Names 2007 Front Line Award Finalists

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28 /PRNewswire/ -- The editors of CMP's Game Developer Magazine have named the finalists for the 2007 Front Line Awards, the magazine's tenth annual evaluation of the year's best game-making tools in the categories of programming, art, audio, game engine, middleware, and books.

The final award winners, plus one inductee to the Front Line Awards Hall of Fame chosen for its outstanding contribution to the game development industry for five years or more, will be announced in the January 2008 issue of Game Developer, available to subscribers in early January.

Game Developer's mission for more than ten years has been to provide game developers with information, news, and articles that pertain directly to them. The Front Line Awards are an official way of recognizing one specific aspect of the industry: the tools that developers need to do their jobs.

Each year, Game Developer looks at the powerful lineup of new products and new releases of favorite tools, from game engines to books, and selects the top five in six different categories. After a comprehensive judging process, one winner is chosen in each category. Front Line Award recipients represent the most innovative, user-friendly, and useful products from behind the scenes of the world's best video games.

"In a year in which the industry has taken such large strides and each of the community's innovations have been so impressive, it was particularly difficult to narrow the field down to the five leaders in each category," said Simon Carless, publisher and editorial director of Game Developer. "Game Developer heartily congratulates all of the deserving finalists for the Front Line Awards."

The finalists for the 2007 Game Developer Front Line Awards are:

  ENGINES
  CryEngine 2, Crytek
  Gamebryo 2.3, Emergent
  Hero Engine, Simutronics Corporation
  Unreal Engine 3, Epic
  Vision Game Engine, Trinigy GmbH

  BOOKS
  Game Design: From Blue Sky to Green Light, Deborah Todd, AK Peters
  Game Writing Handbook, Rafael Chandler, Charles River Media
  GPU Gems 3, ed. Hubert Nguyen, Addison-Wesley Professional
  Second Person, ed. Pat Harrigan and Noah Wardrip-Fruin, MIT Press
  XNA Unleashed, Chad Carter, Sams

  MIDDLEWARE
  Euphoria, Natural Motion
  Gameface Studio, Anark
  Havok Complete, Havok
  Kynapse, Kynogon
  PathEngine SDK, PathEngine

  PROGRAMMING/PRODUCTION
  Hansoft 5.0, Hansoft AB
  NVIDIA PerfHUD 5, NVIDIA Corporation
  Perforce 2007.2, Perforce Software
  ReplayDIRECTOR, Replay Solutions
  XNA Game Studio Express, Microsoft

  ART
  3ds Max 9, Autodesk
  modo 301, Luxology
  Mudbox 1.06, Autodesk/Skymatter
  Softimage XSI 6.01, Softimage
  Zbrush 3.1, Pixologic

  AUDIO
  Fmod, Firelight Technologies Pty, Ltd.
  Miles Sound System, RAD Game Tools, Inc.
  Vivox Precision Audio, Vivox, Inc.
  Voice-O-Matic, Di-O-Matic, Inc.
  Wwise 2007.2, Audiokinetic

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