Jason Della Rocca, executive director of the International Game Developer’s Association and Montreal resident, was recently honoured with the Ambassador Award at the Game Developers Choice Awards.
The award was given to Jason in recognition of his efforts towards “connecting developers with their peers, promoting professional development and advocating on issues such as quality of life, creative freedoms, workforce diversity and credit standards…”
The script Jason prepared for his acceptance speech can be found on his blog. In it, he tells game developers that they are already ambassadors for games and game culture, and they have a responsibility to make the most of their influence over the medium and millions of people who are touched by it.
It’s interesting to note that Jason Della Rocca was on the Montreal Mirror’s list of Noisemakers for 2007, and this year it was indie developer Phil Fish who was named a 2008 Noisemaker. Both received awards in recognition of their work last Wednesday in San Francisco. I think we should all start paying more attention to what The Mirror has to say about the state of the video game industry.
