BETA | HOW TO WIN A DEVELOP AWARD
DIARY DATE: DEVELOP INDUSTRY EXCELLENCE AWARDS Wednesday, July 11th, 2012
Industry Legend Ian Livingstone
Rovio’s Ville Heijari
Comedian and 2012 host Iain Lee
// SPECIAL RECOGNITION DEVELOPMENT LEGEND
WHO’S ELIGIBLE? The winner of this award, especially chosen by the Develop team, is an individual who has made a significant impact on games development – in a commercial, creative or technological sense – during their lifetime and career.
LAST YEAR’S RECIPIENT Ian Livingstone
PREVIOUS WINNERS 2010: The Gower Brothers (Jagex) 2009: Phil Harrison 2007: Ian Hetherington 2006: Charles Cecil 2005: David Braben
GRAND PRIX
WHO’S ELIGIBLE? This is a special award from Develop, bestowed upon a European individual or company in recognition of outstanding achievements in games over the past 12 months. The candidate is decided after soundings from the industry.
// HOW CAN I TAKE PART?
When do the awards take place? The Develop Industry Excellence Awards take place on Wednesday, July 11th, 2012 at the Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel.
Can I sponsor the event? There are a number of excellent promotional possibilities at the event. Those available include opportunities for category and award sponsorship, plus supporting editorial coverage to raise your profile before, after and throughout the event.
If you are interested you can contact
Alex.Boucher@
intentmedia.co.uk for more information on how you can get involved.
How can my company enter? This one’s simple. All you need to do is send a short pitch, either as a Word document or plain text email, to
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Develop’s editor-in-chief at
Michael.French@
intentmedia.co.uk Give us a bit of history and highlight
your company’s key achievements in the last year – and don’t forget tell us what awards you want to be considered for. You don’t need to go into masses of
detail, as we only need an overview and a run through of what your key achievements/recent releases are. Be brief; it’s easier for you, and for us. Remember, we know the industry very well and will have almost definitely heard of you. You’re also actively invited to lobby for
other companies across the games industry – be it publishing partners, your favourite services or outsourcing outfits, and the studios that you admire. Lobbying isn’t voting, so there is no
need to get all of your partners to put your name forward without any detail. The deadline for lobbying is April 18th.
What’s the eligibility period? For those awards criteria based on newly released products, please note that to be eligible the games in question must have been released somewhere in the world after May 1st, 2011 and by April 30th, 2012. That counts whether the game is a physical or digital release. Games in a commercial public beta
are also eligible.
So what’s the judging process? When all nominations are in, they are appraised by the Develop editorial team. The team then decides upon a shortlist for each award based on the lobbying documents and industry standing. Profiles of the shortlisted companies
are then sent out to a judging panel made up of 100 industry executives hand-picked by the Develop team. The judges confidentially disclose their choices and those with the most votes win. Simple.
The names of the judges are only named after the event.
I want to come along! How can I attend the awards? Given the increased pressures on developers’ wallets and studio budgets in recent years we’ve actually dropped the prices – how many award events can say that?
Early bird prices, for those tickets or tables booked on or before June 8th, are: Gold Table of 10 – £1,975 + VAT; Standard Table of 10 – £1,750 + VAT; and Single Seats – £195 + VAT.
After June 8th the prices change to: Gold Table of 10 – £2675 + VAT; Standard Table of 10 – £2350 + VAT; and Single Seats – £235 + VAT.
To book your place at the event contact
Kathryn.Humphrey@
intentmedia.co.uk
LAST YEAR’S WINNER Rovio Mobile
PREVIOUS WINNERS 2010: Unity Technologies 2009: Codemasters 2008: Rockstar Games 2007: Sony Computer Entertainment 2006: Bizarre Creations
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