Game Developer Choice Awards Reveal Pioneer and Ambassador Award Recipients

The 17th Annual Game Developers Choice Awards will award this year’s Pioneer Award, which honors breakthrough tech and game design milestones, to Jordan Mechner, the video game designer, author and screenwriter, best known as the creator of the action-adventure series, Prince of Persia.

The Ambassador Award, honoring someone who is helping video games advance to a better place through advocacy or action, will be given to Mark DeLoura, who has had a strong history of helping the video game community, and advocated for video games and digital entertainment as the Senior Advisor for Digital Media during the Obama administration.

The Game Developers Choice Awards ceremony takes place on March 1st at 9:30pm ET at the San Francisco Moscone Center during the 2017 Game Developers Conference, and in conjunction with the Independent Games Festival. The ceremonies are available to attend for all GDC 2017 pass-holders and will be livestreamed on the GDC’s official Twitch channel at www.twitch.tv/gdc.