Game Developer Front Line Award Nominations Now OpenGame Developer Front Line Award Nominations Now Open

The editors of Game Developer magazine have announced that nominations for the seventh annual Front Line Awards, continuing the magazine's tradition of honoring excellence and innovation in tools for game development, are now open. Game Developer magazine accepts nominations from the game development community for its annual Front Line Awards during a fixed nomination period. The Front Line Awards honor the year's best development hardware and software for programming, art, audio, hardware, and game components. While a great many considerations go into determining a winner, innovation is the real name of the game. Products are nominated in all categories by the readers of Game Developer magazine and Gamasutra, and will be judged by game professionals from a list of all nominations put forward. In this year's competition, nominations will be open from August 18, 2005, through September 2, 2005, to all new products and new versions of products related to game development released between September 1, 2004, and August 31, 2005 (betas are not eligible). Front Line Award finalists and winners will be announced in the December 2005 issue of Game Developer.