Below are the nominees for the annual gamedevelopers.ie awards. I have decided not to award a humour award this year given that the nominees have mostly been previous award winners and there was no clear favourite. Thank you for taking part in the nomination process.

Thank you also to our sponsors for the awards tonight Manpower recruitment agency, Skillground and Demonware.

Mroe detail on each of these nominees will be provided tonight but the nominees (using their forum nicknames) for the 2007 awards are:

Newbie (sponsored by Manpower recruitment agency):
eDen
Darragh
krudd
Kentaree

Stamina:(sponsored by Skillground)
Peter_B
Nooptical
gizmo
ik_

Salmon of Knowledge:(sponsored by Demonware)
Mal
Omen
Gizmo
Pete

Person/Group of the year:(sponsored by Manpower)
Demonware
DarkWater
Digital Hub and Belfast City Council for Dare to be Digital
DIT for hosting the CGames conference

for more on our sponsors see:
Skillground – http://www1.skillground.com/sg/index.do
Demonware – http://www.demonware.net/index.html
Manpower – http://www.manpower.ie/default.asp

See you all tonight. Hope to start the talks just after 7pm so try to turn up a little earlier than that if you want to mix and drink. We will be there from 6.30pm.