Game Audio Network Guild

G.A.N.G. is proud to announce the 8th annual 2010 Student/Apprentice Contest. This contest is an outstanding opportunity for student and apprentice members in G.A.N.G., and is a great way to advance your game audio career and get noticed. So, get your creative juices flowing and submit your best material in the competition!

There are two specific categories in the competition: Music Composition and Sound Design. Music winners will be awarded a Nine-Volt Power Pack (worth $500), and Sound Design winners will be awarded a $500 gift certificate to Sound Rangers' online SFX store. Here is an outline of the dates:

Feb 15th – Submissions Accepted

Feb 19th – Submissions Closed (5 day window for submissions)

Feb 22nd – Voting opens

March 1st – Voting Closes

March 12th – GANG Awards Winner’s Announced

CONTEST DETAILS

(Please read all details below carefully before submitting)

Music Composition

Compose an original 1 minute (60 second) theme for an epic, vampire RPG. The piece should be primarily focused on an evolving theme, and must contain either solo vocals, and/or choral elements. In addition to voices, the composition may use any instrumentation and should not loop. You may any tools at your disposal to create your theme.

Judging Guidelines

Composition quality: Including appropriate instrumentation/orchestration and development of a theme throughout the work.

Production quality: including mixing, effective use of samples, and overall quality of work.

Sound Design

Design a 60-second soundscape of a pack vampires attacking a squadron of heavily armed soldiers, that are ambushed by a clan of werewolves in a midnight forest. Remember to illustrate all of the sounds you might hear if you were one of the human soldiers in this event, including the growls of wolves, ambience of the nighttime forest, and how they might effect the surrounding environment. The submission should be in stereo.

Judging Guidelines

Creativity: Ability to create an auditory vision, using appropriate sounds to paint a picture of a werewolf attack.

Production quality: including quality of sounds, mix, and overall quality of work.

CONTEST RULES

(Please read carefully)

1. The contest begins today and submissions will be accepted on the G.A.N.G. Site (similar to the G.A.N.G. Awards) starting February 15th.

2. You must be a Student or Apprentice member to submit. (An apprentice member is one who has NOT received payment for services in the interactive entertainment industry as an audio professional.)

3. You must be a G.A.N.G. member to vote.

4. You may submit only one work per category.

5. All submissions may not exceed the time limit listed in the description. Submissions may be less but not over the time listed. Any submissions exceeding the time limit will be rejected.

6. All submissions must be in mp3 format at 192 kbps compression. Submissions will not be accepted in any other format. Please do not compress the file via zip, .sit, etc.

7. All submissions must be uploaded via the submission form on the G.A.N.G. Site no later than Thursday, February 18th, at 11:59 PM PST.

VOTING GUIDELINES

1. Voting for the Student/Apprentice Contest will be open to all G.A.N.G. members starting February 22nd, 2010, and weill be held on the G.A.N.G. site.

2. All members may vote once for the composition category and once for the sound design category. All contestants may vote and are encouraged to vote for their own work.

3. Please take the time to listen to all of the submissions in each category before choosing the submission you feel is the best. Judging guidelines are written in each category to help you make an objective decision.

The winners will be announced at the Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards held at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Contestants do not need to be in attendance to win.

Good luck!

Tommy, Jack, Paul, Michelle and Sean
Game Audio Network Guild