gd.ie awards – nominations thread

Let us now go to Dublin for the Irish votes,

– HELLO Dublin!!

– Is this on? Oh….Hello. Failte go Eireann. I hope everyone is

– Hello, can we……

– ….enjoying the show

– …Sorry, can we have your results?

– …..Yes. Here are the votes of the Irish jury:

1. The Newbie award
r_mc_gowan

2. The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame award
boadle

3. The Salmon of knowledge award
Idora

4. The Humour award
KyotoKid

5. Gd person/group of the year
IGDA – Ireland

*cut to various nominees tables waving there respective mini-flags*

– That concludes the results of the Irish jury Slain!!

Sorry for my horrible Gaelige!

here are mine…

1. The Newbie award
Steph

2. The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame award
Omen

3. The Salmon of knowledge award
Ian Hannigan

4. The Humour award
KyotoKid

5. Gd person/group of the year
Robbie Hegarty (NWIFHE)

Decided to wait to get college over with before having a good think about this. Hope it’s not too late!

The Newbie Award
Peter_B. Good chap who’s brought a lot to gd.ie.

The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame
Omen. Really has contributed a lot and posted consistently all year.

The Salmon of knowledge award
Idora for always helping out and offering advice wherever needed despite his busy schedule.

The Humour award
Kyotokid – Very tempted not to vote for him so avoid the inevitable power trip!

Gd person/group of the year
IGDA Ireland for taking Irish game development to the next level.

Ah…holidays, time to think.

The Newbie Award
Steph – brought in some good info from a different point of view

The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame
Hall of fame, has to be Aphra

The Salmon of knowledge award
Idora..anything that happens in the country he has a hand in it and seems to write up a report on it

The Humour award
Kyotokid – go on give hime something else this year

Gd person/group of the year
Idora for having a hand in EVERYTHNG that happens

cheers ronny for the nomination.ahaha

I suspect i could do a bit more if i wasent isolated in cork :)

thanks Omen but you know as I am arranging the awards I really can’t get one…anyone else for your Stamina award?[/quote:49ba872317]

Umm…aphra?

The Newbie Award
Darksaviour69

The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame
Ronny

The Salmon of knowledge award
Steph

The Humour award
Pete. If you dont agree – then you can Hoff off (*groan*)

Gd person/group of the year
Ronny

Thank you for the votes – mucho blushingo here :D

Here are mine:

The Newbie Award
bomberman – just appeared and hey what do you know, already making the news on Gamesbiz!

The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame
omen (only because I can’t vote for aphra, as per her post)

The Salmon of knowledge award
aphra (this just has to go to an academic!)

The Humour award
Kyotokid – an absolute de facto vote IMHO

Gd person/group of the year
Idora, because to all intent and purposes, he is Ireland’s IGDA (and it would be bad form to vote for myself) :D

The Newbie Award
?? (who’s new?)

The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame
Ronny

The Salmon of knowledge award
Idora

The Humour award
Nooptical

Gd person/group of the year
IGDA

Many many thanks to Ivan and Peter! Glad to be up for it this year. Couldn’t ask for a better start to the holidays. :)

(only because I can’t vote for aphra, as per her post)[/quote:f71c95cc80]
Bah, if she gets enough votes she’ll have to accept it :)

Newbie Award
Steph. 186 Posts in 6 Months, far outstripping anyone else and with some very solid content.

Stamina Award
Omen. Logs on every day to see if there is a new EA bashing thread, and if not, creates one.

Salmon of Knowledge
Idora, ronny, feral (when he posts), steph. I’ll go with Ronny on this one though.

Humour
Hi, my name’s Pete, and I’m a Hoffaholic.

Org/Person of the Year
The Digital Hub, for making the potential into a reality.

look under members at the top of the forum…it tells you when people joined and numbers of posts…it is a great way to waste time![/quote:b2dcafa84b]
Not that either myself or Aphra could ever be accused of wasting our time in such a fashion – we’re just helpful human beings…

Dave

I will take any chance to waste time I get……….jeez, there are a lot more members that I thought.

heheh….yeah, I liked that one about EA myself. But you could also include Kyotokid in the “Create thread bashing EA” category.. :p

I tend to just join in after the fact…… ;)

Dave doesn’t do funny, more like sarky one-liners ;) Aphra should we have a sarky one-liner of the year award?

ooh…looks like Ian is going for the GD.ie HUMOUR AWARD DOUBLE!!! Well, you have my nomination :)

Dave

On reflection, I think the Humour award should go to the Hoff’, for his selfless and countless efforts expended in posing for the photographer and have Forum Members (doubtlessly) consistently in stitches as his just rewards :D

He might even turn up to collect, fingers crossed

More nominations?? Honoured to have whatever contribution to the community I have made recognised. All I’ve done is be myself and discuss game dev. Quite chuffed to say the least! :D

Dave doesn’t do funny, more like sarky one-liners. Aphra should we have a sarky one-liner of the year award? [/quote:cb0054c970]
Dave is reminding me more and more of Jack Dee every time he posts. Take that as a good thing or a bad thing. ;)

ooh…looks like Ian is going for the GD.ie HUMOUR AWARD DOUBLE!!! Well, you have my nomination[/quote:cb0054c970]
If he wins it then surely the award should fore after be known as the Ian Hannigan Humour Award.

Dave is reminding me more and more of Jack Dee every time he posts. Take that as a good thing or a bad thing.[/quote:35e4d344bf]

Good thing in my book ;) – matter of taste, of course.

Reminds me more of Eddie Izzard, in a comedic sense and a fashion sense…….

Nah pass it on, I say! I ‘m just mentally preparing myself to hand over my Tiara!

Damn Newbies!!!!

I take offence at that, I don’t start EA bashing threads, thats usually Kyoto. Me, I just manage to gently sway them in that direction. And it must be nearly a month since the last one…

See I told it was all Kyotos fault!

I take offence at that, I don’t start EA bashing threads, thats usually Kyoto. Me, I just manage to gently sway them in that direction. And it must be nearly a month since the last one… [/quote:20d222b60f] …and it’s been a while since you had a go at producers too ;)

Should we have a “Most Vocal Detractor” award as well, then? Otherwise known as the Grumpy award :D

I’d have thought it more difficult to figure out who is being nominated for what :D

…and it’s been a while since you had a go at producers too [/quote:155f749621]
I do enough of that in work these days, so you’re safe.
I’m not convince about your arguements though…

Grumpy award…oh oh, me want, me want!!!

If there is a Grumpy award, then there should also be a Dopey award. :p

I do enough of that in work these days, so you’re safe. I’m not convince about your arguements though…[/quote:8c0e036ecf] dem’s fightin’ words… bring it on!

If there is a Grumpy award, then there should also be a Dopey award[/quote:510e61bf33] I’m sure I could scoop that one too :p

C’mon people get with the voting!

Can we vote twice?

Only if you shave/grow a beard, or change your appearance in some other way….

I could change sex if you like? You can call me Trixxy :)

er……nah, a false moustache will do…..

Thought i get my votes in the last min!! Even though im fairly new to this site and the members, knowing only a few of you, i have benefited from this site more than any other, mainly due to you guys!!! uhoh, here come the tears! :D

here we go:

1. The Newbie award
Beans_w

2. The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame award
ronny

3. The Salmon of knowledge award
Idora

4. The Humour award
nooptical

5. Gd person/group of the year
Robbie Hegarty (NWIFHE)

See you all in dublin!!:)

1. The Newbie award
Ronan Hayes

2. The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame award
Alan Duggan

3. The Salmon of knowledge award
Idora

4. The Humour award
Ian Hannigan

5. Gd person/group of the year
Micheal Kenna / EI

1. Newbie : gizmo

2. Stamina GD Hall of Fame : Ronny

3. Salmon of Knowledge : Idora

4. Humour : Ian Hannigan/Mal/Skyclad even 3 way split :D

5: GD person/group of the year : Clevercelt/MIDAS

…and it’s been a while since you had a go at producers too [/quote:dc3d4c0a8a]

I think marketing departments are the new targets of scorn :)

The Newbie award : R Mc Gowan

The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame award : Ronny

The Salmon of knowledge award : Idora

The Humour award : Mal

Gd person/group of the year : David Has….I mean Torc Int…no wait….IGDA Ireland

The Newbie award : R Mc Gowan

The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame award : aphra

The Salmon of knowledge award : Idora

The Humour award : Mal

Gd person/group of the year : Robbie Hegarty

:D didnt think i would even get one nomination, thanks guys!

What about the David Hasselhoff award for best perm?

Because I HAVE THE BEST PERM

I’m talking about chest hair perm…….

I know. I HAVE THE BEST PERM

Fair enough:
My vote for the “David Hasselhoff Award for Best Perm(of the chest region)” goes to……PETE!

lol will the man himself be there to present it?
(PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE OH PLEASE)

The Newbie award : R Mc Gowan

The Stamina gd/ie Hall of Fame award : Omen

The Salmon of knowledge award : Idora

The Humour award : Pete

Gd person/group of the year : Robbie Hegarty(NWIFHE)

Don’t think any of the phookas will be down for the bash (deadline for sunday to meet) but we might have somthing to show off soon hopefully.

Pete, news just in….The Hoff has just been spotted in Dublin Bay, on his way to the GD.ie awards!!

Super Hoff!

He Arrives!!

Class, I’ll wear my finest frock!

Can we vote twice? [/quote:b659192d33]

You are nominating, not voting!!! :)

I thought this was a democracy????

So who decides the final winners then? Kim Jong-il? :p

You are nominating, not voting!!! [/quote:cfc47828df]
You can’t tell me what i’m doing!!!

Originally posted by Nooptical Kim Jong-il? :p [/quote:56d47d2a37]

Kim Jong-Aphra actually :)

lol…..

You can’t tell me what i’m doing!!! [/quote:f7368b7bd8]
Please refer to thread title to avoid sarky one liners from Dave.

im surprised the membership didnt fly up and people try to pad the vote. haha.

damn should have thought of it sooner :)

Shite, should have thought of that! :p

hey..just going through the nominations..

anyone know Darksaviour69s real name??

Aphra. [/quote:b192a07762]
Patrick something. Have a feeling his last name is Corrigan. Don’t quote me on it though.

Edit: Yep, definately Patrick Corrigan. :)

Please refer to thread title to avoid sarky one liners from Dave. [/quote:d59f54b67e] WHAT?! There’s a way to avoid Dave’s sarcasm??!!

hey..just going through the nominations..

anyone know Darksaviour69s real name??

Aphra. [/quote:303b63e82c]

ooooooooooh *somebody* is getting an award.

(Or about to be stalked by aphra)

*psst* the name is up on the nomination list

*psst* the name is up on the nomination list [/quote:c0c761fc5e] it’s the drugs, Omen… dulls the reaction time

was just thinking it’s a pity you guys in particular won’t make it tonight – you’re such an integral part of the GD community. We’ll sink one or two in your honour

You’re so generous Tony. :)

or three or four……….

……its how they would want it…. ;)

I usually make my trips home coincide with a shindig.

I was told that April was a NO HOLIDAY time by work…but stuff changed :(

Drink loads for me…no wait – I’ll drink loads for me tonite :)

Post info on the shindig (WITH PHOTOS) on monday

Blimey… there’ll be precious few of us at this rate :( – with mucho more drinking left to do, to make up for the numbers :D (shudders)

Well apparently there are about 40 people going…..so it will still be quite big! :D

Remember Steph, we have a drinking challenge to partake in! :p

Post info on the shindig (WITH PHOTOS) on monday[/quote:d7d48d33bc]

Photos?……oh god, tell me no-one is bringing a camera……

The drinking challenge will have to be moved to the next ‘dig, I’m afraid. And before accusations of “chickening out” pour in, I have a sick mother and child at home whom I (really) should not be leaving alone tonight, and so have promised to make it an early one… but it’s been a hard week -still is- so I’m entitled to a tiny-icky-little bit-o’fun on a Friday night ;)

Thats cool :)

…….next time Steph……..NEXT…….TIME!!!

50-60 now…

50-60?

Thats quite a lot of people going. Excellent!

Folks,

just wanted to thank you all for the nominations… and the award, of course. I’ve won a few awards over the years but I can honestly say the GD awards are the ones that mean most to me, coming as they do from my peers

For those of you who didn’t make the birthday bash, it was a great night… you missed out, folks.

Great to finally meet Boadle and Nooptical who seemed to spend most of the evening teaching peple how to pronounce his handle correctly… not to mention joining Dancin’ Dave and Jivin’ John as GD groovesters

Great to finally meet Boadle and Nooptical who seemed to spend most of the evening teaching peple how to pronounce his handle correctly… not to mention joining Dancin’ Dave and Jivin’ John as GD groovesters[/quote:6006f0dfd2]

haha…..yeah, most people pronouce it as “No – Optical”. Understandable really…..BUT WRONG! :mad:
It’s pronounced…..”newp-tical”……..oh wait, I’m doing it again aren’t I.

So if Dave is “Dancin’ Dave”, and John is “Jivin’ John”….what am I then? “Disco Dave”?

Please send entries on a SAE to…..

Dispite the unbelievable travel time spent getting to the event, I can tell you that it was well worth it! Had a fantastic night and can’t wait for the next one. Great to finally meet new folk like Lewis and Dave. Hopefully all of the newcomers will decide to stay around. :)

Got a look at the new website. Not wonder you guys are so impressed. Very snazzy! Well done to Dave, Ian and any other ‘designosaurs’ who contributed to it.

Hey all, What a great night :D It was great to finally put a face to alot of the names.
And well done to Dave and Ian “the knockout king” Hannigan for spending so much time working on the new site, I can’t wait to see it up.

we managed to get a pic of pete accepting his Humor award!!

Hey all, What a great night :D It was great to finally put a face to alot of the names.
And well done to Dave and Ian “the knockout king” Hannigan for spending so much time working on the new site, I can’t wait to see it up.

we managed to get a pic of pete accepting his Humor award!! :eek:

hahah…….classic!!

haha…

boo-urns!!

LOL Aaron you bastard! That was BEFORE I lost 220lbs on the SlimFast plan! That photo is reminiscent of something I’ve been harbouring on my phone since the Malin Head trip last year…..could it be Big Heg towelling off on Kinnagoe Beach? Would you like to see it????????:D :eek:

Seriously though, thanks to all who were involved on Friday night, the sponsors, the speakers and the members, especially Nooptical, Boadle, Ste, and John it was great to finally meet some more of you fokkers

Pete was that the pic of me toweling off my 6 pack… ahh no that the one me toweling off while drinking a six pack :p

Ill hold ya to that Aphra :D

I got a payrise today!

I potential to come over now and “drink you foo’s under da bord”

Glad you basts had a good time

:)

(table is ‘bord’ yeah?)

Congratulations to you organisers, and to attendees of course, for making this gala night what I understand from the posts was a particularly memorable one!

I am very, very sorry that I missed out, but my wife and child were just not well enough (pleurosy for one and gastro’ for the other :( ) for me to leave them last Friday night – I’d had to leave work early that day to go home & care…

And I now feel gutted, really, since I have just noticed that I have been ‘awarded’ – my sincere and heartfelt thanks to all who nominated me / voted for me / otherwise influenced the judges in my favour – looks like there’s a round on at the next shindig, provided you lot don’t ask for a belated acceptance speech.

Anyhow – great to hear of developments at BitRabbit (those publishers eh, Bomberman – nudge/wink ;) ) and the Irish pride in the development community to shine shortly via Torc’s calender events.

To all, old hands and newbies alike – good show and well done.

the Irish pride in the development community to shine shortly via Torc’s calender events.
[/quote:00f9f192ad]

did torc make some future announcements last friday night?

Yes. But they werent able to talk about it.

so they didnt make any announcements?

someone’s graduated from funny college :D

ya my dissertation was on the lost art of sarcasms..

Tony announced that Torc are currently expanding, hiring etc, but was not able to say where the new office is or what they would be doing (other than an fps style game using the instinct engine one presumes).

so they didnt make any announcements?[/quote:30059adabe]

They announced that they would be making announcements, but at this time those future announcements could not be further elaborated upon. ;)

But it did sound like it would be exciting! I for one am really looking forward to seeing Dreadnought…..

oh new offices.. things must be looking very good in torc’s future. good to hear.

Oh yeah, forgot about that. I think Tony mentioned something about a possible new office/studio, not necessarily in the specific region of Muff, but around the general Muff area…..so to speak.

Dreadnought (AMD 64 bit tech demo) will be released at WinHEC in Seattle on April 22nd. Shortly after that both 32 and 64 bit versions will be made available for download

We’re working on our first original IP and hiring both on the middleware and games side of things. Should be setting up a new office soon, which won’t be too far from the existing offices

…and that’s all I can say for now

excellent, looking forward to giving dreadnought a whizz.

Thanks to NoOpts above comment, I just spat tea all over my monitor.

hehheh……come now Lewis, why would my innocent and completely harmless comments on the location of Torcs new office cause you to shower your monitor in Lyons finest?

…please…stop…

just read aphras review of the night last friday night, sounds like a good night had by all.

damn my blasted lift for cancelling, next time ill make it, like mcguyver, i too will have a backup plan, if the lift fails again!

> Should be setting up a new office soon, which won’t be too far from the existing offices

> …and that’s all I can say for now

I’ve a feeling it’ll be on the North side of the border ;)

It’s about time we got a large games company up here!

Mal

we have some photos [/quote:8e67136755]

Looking forward to seeing them. Especially if the photo of Pete getting his award is anything to go by…. :D

Hey all, What a great night :D It was great to finally put a face to alot of the names.
And well done to Dave and Ian “the knockout king” Hannigan for spending so much time working on the new site, I can’t wait to see it up.

we managed to get a pic of pete accepting his Humor award!! [/quote:09f6ddf065]

Cheers for the nice words Aaron (the punchbag) Hegg! ;)

:D

Congrats to Ian and Aaron. I am absolutely amazed that you both managed to remember! ;)

> not to mention joining Dancin’ Dave and Jivin’ John as GD groovesters

I just found this web cam recording of one of the dancers after the DH gig, I can’t tell if it’s Dave or John though :) Or that chick that Aaron was chatting up :P