During a ceremony hosted by the one and only Tim Schafer, The Game Developers Choice Awards, the best games of 2008 were acknowledged by all those attending the event.

The Game Developers Choice Awards are honours given to game developers, by game developers, voted and chosen by fellow members of the game development industry and community.

The Indie Games Festival awards are also voted on and chosen by experienced professional game developers, and recognise exciting and outstanding achievements in the independent side of the game development industry.

Without further ado, here are the winners, first looking at the Indie Games Festival:

Indie Games Festival awards

Student Showcase award

• Tag: The Power of Paint

Techincal excellence award

• Cortex Command

Excellence in visual art award

• Machinariam

Excellence in game design award

• Musiac Box

Best audio award

• BrainPipe

Innovation award

• Between

Audience award

• Cortex Command

Seamus McNally award

• Blue Garden

Game Developers Choice Awards

Best New Debut:

• Winner: LittleBigPlanet
• Runners-Up: Braid, Sins of a Solar Empire, World of Goo and Soul Bubbles

Best Audio:

• Winner: Dead Space
• Runners-Up: L4D, MGS4, Gears of War 2

Best Game Design:

• Winner: LittleBigPlanet
• Runners-Up: Fallout 3, L4D, Braid and Far Cry 2

Best Downloadable Game:

• Winner: World of Goo
• Runners-Up: Braid, N+, PixelJunk Eden, Castle Crashers

Best Handheld Game:

• Winner: God of War: Chains of Olympus
• Runners-Up: Patapon, Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, echochrome, The World Ends With You

Ambassador Award:

• Tommy Tallarico

Best Writing Award:

• Winner: Fallout 3
• Runners-Up: Braid, MGS4, GTAIV and Far Cry 2

Best Technology Award:

• Winner: LittleBigPlanet
• Runners-Up: Gears of War 2, Left 4 Dead, GTAIV and Spore

Best Visual Art Award:

• Winner: Prince of Persia
• Runners-Up: LittleBigPlanet, Gears of War 2, MGS4 and Fallout 3

Pioneer Award:

• Harmonix’s Alex Rigopulos and Eran Egozy

Innovation Award:

• Winner: LittleBigPlanet
• Runners-Up: Spore, World of Goo, Boom Blox, Braid

Life Time Acheivement Award:

• Hideo Kojima

Game of the Year:

• Fallout 3