Remedy’s Sam Lake and indie developer Lucas Pope are set to be honoured at this year’s Game Developer Choice Awards.
The award ceremony, which will take place at this year’s Game Developers Conference, will see Lake receiving the Lifetime Achievement award and Pope being given the Pioneer Award.
Sam Lake has been at Remedy Entertainment for nearly 30 years, and is known for writing the first two Max Payne games and Alan Wake, for directing and producing Quantum Break, and for writing Control.
Most recently, he was director and lead writer on the critically acclaimed Alan Wake 2.
Lucas Pope is an influential indie game designer credited with creating some of the most unique and thought-provoking games of recent years.
Although he’s also been in game development for nearly two decades, having worked on the Uncharted series at Naughty Dog among others, it was his indie creation Papers, Please which put his name on the map, winning him several GDC awards.
Pope was also responsible for Return of the Obra Dinn, the visually striking adventure puzzle game which deliberately used a 1-bit graphics style similar to that of early Macintosh games.
“The Game Developers Choice Awards has a proud legacy of shining the spotlight on figures who make gaming the most gripping and evocative method of storytelling,” GDC event director Stephenie Hawkins said in a statement.
“We’re excited to recognize Sam Lake and Lucas Pope for their commitment to pushing the boundaries of the medium through transcendent narrative structures, complex moral questions and evocative gameplay.”
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