Game Developer’s 2008 Front Line Award Finalists Announced

[Here’s this year’s Front Line Award nominees, the major awards for game tools - thanks to my colleagues Brandon Sheffield and especially Jeff Fleming at Game Developer magazine for masterminding this, which is a really worthy effort to honor the things that let people make games.]
The editors of Think Services’ Game Developer magazine, a sister publication to Gamasutra, have named the finalists for the 2008 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.
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 […]

Original post by editors@gamesetwatch.com (Simon Carless) and software by Elliott Back