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Excellence in game audio is celebrated annually at the Game Audio Network Guild Awards. Come and be a part of the magic! It will be a night of entertainment and peer recognition as we review the best in game audio over the past year. The winners will be announced at the Game Audio Network Guild Awards on April 28, 2021 at 5:00 PM PT on Twitch.
The Game Audio Network Guild Awards identify the highest quality and achievement of those individuals, projects and products offering a significant and positive impact on the art and craft of producing interactive audio, its community and the interactive industry as a whole. Judging criteria includes production value, quality, innovation and community service.
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Announcing the 19th annual G.A.N.G. Awards nominees with 30 categories in music, sound design, dialogue, mix, and more. The nominees were selected by Game Audio Network Guild Advisory Board members and Committees, and winners will be announced at the G.A.N.G. Awards on April 28, 2021 at 5:00 pm PST on Twitch. The annual event will once again take place virtually, for the second year in a row.
Said Game Audio Network Guild President Brian Schmidt, “Since the first show in 2002, the industry has grown, changed, and evolved in ways no one could have imagined. Reflecting those changes, the 2021 G.A.N.G. Awards represent the biggest change to our show since its inception, allowing us to better recognize the deeply specialized skills, talent, and knowledge of those who create music, sound, dialogue and technology for games.”
This year’s Lifetime Achievement award recipient will be Guy Whitmore, a 27-year game industry veteran and multi-award-winning composer and sound designer whose credits include Ori and the Will of the Wisps, Tron 2.0, No One Lives Forever, Overwatch, Ironman VR, Alien Descent VR, and the Xbox One UI. Currently Studio Head of Formosa Interactive Seattle, Guy also served as Director of Audio at Microsoft Game Studio where he worked on major franchises including Fable, Gears of War, Project Gotham Racing, Crackdown, and Halo, and at PopCap Games/EA where he oversaw classic franchises Bejeweled, Peggle, and Plants vs. Zombies.
Cyberpunk 2077 – CD Projekt Red
Ghost of Tsushima – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Hades – Supergiant Game
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Ori and the Will of the Wisps – Moon Studios, Xbox Game Studios
The Last of Us Part II – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Hades – Supergiant Games
Music by Darren Korb
Metamorphosis – Ovid Works, All In! Games
Music by Mikolai Stroinski & Garry Schyman
Ori and the Will of the Wisps – Moon Studios, Xbox Game Studios
Music by Gareth Coker
Star Wars: Squadrons – Motive, Electronic Arts
Music by Gordy Haab
The Last of Us Part II – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Cyberpunk 2077 – CD Projekt Red
Evergate – Stone Lantern Games
Music by M.R. MillerHades – Supergiant Games
Music by Darren Korb
Metamorphosis – Ovid Works, All In! Games
Music by Mikolai Stroinski & Garry Schyman
Mythgard – Rhino Games
Music by John Robert Matz
The Pathless – Giant Squid, Annapurna Interactive
Music by Austin Wintory
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem – Wolcen Studio
Music by Jean-Gabriel Raynaud & Cedric Baravaglio
Hades – Supergiant Games
Liquidators – 1986 CL3
Carrion – Phobia Game Studio, Devolver Digital
Mortal Shell – Cold Symmetry, Playstack
Risk of Rain 2 – Hopoo Games, PlayEveryWare
Wolcen: Lords of Mayhem – Wolcen Studio
3 out of 10 – Terrible Posture Games
Bugsnax – Young Horses
Hades – Supergiant Games
Lost Words: Beyond The Page – Sketchbook Games, Fourth State, Modus Games
Mortal Shell – Cold Symmetry, Playstack
The Red Lantern – Timberline Studio
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – “Main Theme” – Nintendo
Music by Kazumi TotakaBiped – “Biped Theme” – NExT Studios, META Publishing, Bilibili
Music by Thomas Parisch
Ghost of Tsushima – “The Way of the Ghost (feat. Clare Uchima)” –Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Music by Ilan Eshkeri
Lost Words: Beyond The Page – Sketchbook Games, Fourth State, Modus Games
Music by David Housden
Star Wars: Squadrons – “Main Theme” – Motive, Electronic Arts
Music by Gordy Haab
The Pathless – “None Have Returned” – Giant Squid, Annapurna Interactive
Music by Austin Wintory
Devil May Cry 5 Special Edition – “Bury the Light” – CAPCOM
Music by Casey Edwards
Ghost of Tsushima – “The Way of the Ghost (feat. Clare Uchima)” – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Music by Ilan Eshkeri
Hades – “In The Blood” – Supergiant Games
Music by Darren Korb
League of Legends – K/DA – “MORE” – Riot Games
Music by Rebecca Johnson, Sebastien Najand, Riot Music Team, & Bekuh BOOM
Performed by (G)I-DLE, Jaira Burns, K/DA, Lexie Liu, Madison Beer, Seraphine
The Pathless – “A land, which was not my Own” – Giant Squid, Annapurna Interactive
Music by Austin Wintory
Assassin’s Creed Valhalla – Ubisoft Montreal, Ubisoft
Music by Jesper Kyd, Sarah Schachner, & Einar Selvik
GODFALL – Counterplay Games, Gearbox Publishing
Music by Ben MacDougall
Hades – Supergiant Games
Music by Darren Korb
Mythgard – Rhino Games
Music by John Robert Matz
Sackboy – Sumo Digital, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Music by Joe Thwaites, Jay Waters, Nick Foster, Lena Raine, George King, Brian d’Oliveira, Glen Brown, Winifred Phillips, Jim Fowler, Opiuo, 2 Mello, & Tokyo Machine
The Pathless – Giant Squid, Annapurna Interactive
Music by Austin Wintory
Cuphead – “Closing Credits” – Live at MAGfest
ConSoul
Grandia – “Symphonic Tale: An Unforgettable Journey (Music from Grandia)”
Kentaro Sato
Kingdom Hearts III – “Face My Fears”
ROZEN & REVEN
Ori and the Will of the Wisps – “Main Theme”
Jillian Aversa & Andrew Aversa
Witcher 3 – “Toss A Coin To Your Witcher… but it’s Witcher 3”
Colm McGuinness
Banjo-Kazooie – “嘘でしょ！コンビは熊と鳥！？(It Can’t Be True! A Bear and a Bird Working Together?!)”
Jeff Penny
Ghost of Tsushima – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Final Fantasy VII Remake – Square Enix
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope – Supermassive Games, Bandai Namco
The Last of Us Part II – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Ori and the Will of the Wisps – Moon Studios, Xbox Game Studios
Winner
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo
Ghost of Tsushima – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Hades – Supergiant Games
Hearthstone: Madness at the Darkmoon Faire – Blizzard Entertainment
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Last of Us Part II – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Ghost of Tsushima – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Final Fantasy VII Remake – Square Enix
Half-Life: Alyx – Valve
Mafia: Definitive Edition – Hangar 13, 2K Games
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Last of Us Part IINaughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Ghost of Tsushima – Jin – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Performed by Kazuya Nakai League of Legends – Fiddlesticks – Riot Games
Performed by Kellen Goff
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Miles Morales – Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Performed by Nadji Jeter
The Last Light – Kayah – Magic Leap Studios
Performed by Jan Johns
The Last of Us Part II – Abby – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Performed by Laura Bailey
The Last of Us Part II – Ellie – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Performed by Ashley Johnson
3 out of 10 – Terrible Posture Games
Bugsnax – Young Horses
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Tell Me Why – DONTNOD Entertainment, Xbox Game Studios
The Dark Pictures Anthology: Little Hope – Supermassive Giants, Bandai Namco
The Last of Us Part II – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Bugsnax – Young Horses
Call of Duty: Mobile – TiMi Studios, Tencent Games, Activision
Half-Life: Alyx – Valve
League of Legends – Riot Games
Ori and the Will of the Wisps – Moon Studios, Xbox Game Studios
The Last of Us Part II – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Nintendo
Ghost of Tsushima – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Hades – Supergiant Games
Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Last of Us Part II – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Final Fantasy VII Remake – Square Enix
Ghost of Tsushima – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Half-Life: Alyx – Valve
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – Insomniac Games, Sony Interactive Entertainment
The Last of Us Part II – Naughty Dog, Sony Interactive Entertainment
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands – Blizzard Entertainment
Cyberpunk 2077 – CD Projekt Red
Ghost of Tsushima – Sucker Punch Productions, Sony Interactive Entertainment
Little Orpheus – The Chinese Room
Mythgard – Rhino Games
No Straight Roads – Metronomik, Sold Out Ltd., Game Source Entertainment, Mastertronic Group
The Pathless – Giant Squid, Annapurna Interactive
Frequencies – League of Legends Audio Deep Dive
Riot Games, GameSoundCon 2020
From Assassin’s Creed to the Dark Eye: The Importance of Themes
Winifred Phillips, GDC 2020
How to Get Hired a Second Time
Jesse Harlin, GameSoundCon 2020
The Creative Process
Tom Salta Masterclass
How to Write One Minute of Music – The Pathless
Austin Wintory
Excellence in Game Audio is celebrated annually at the Game Audio Network Guild Awards show. Come and be a part of the magic! It will be a night of entertainment and peer recognition as we review the best in game audio over the past year.
The Game Audio Network Guild Awards identify the highest quality and achievement of those individuals, projects and products offering a significant and positive impact on the art and craft of producing interactive audio, its community and the interactive industry as a whole. Criteria judged include production value, quality, innovation and community service.
The Game Audio Network Guild Awards recognize music, sound design and voice acting as three distinct disciplines. Award eligibility is not restricted to Game Audio Network Guild members exclusively – any individual, product or project may receive an award for a contribution to interactive audio.
Game Audio Network Guild members in good standing may make as many nominations as want for any category and there are no fees involved with submitting nominations for members in good standing. Submissions are now also open to the public for a nominal fee of $50 per submission.
After these nominations are collected, the Awards Committee puts together submission data and sends them to the Game Audio Network Guild Advisors and various Awards Committees. The Advisors and Committees then vote to narrow down the selections to the final nominations. Once the final nominations are chosen, the Game Audio Network Guild membership will listen, watch, and judge the final entries, voting to select the winner in each available category.
Nomination submissions will open in November 2020.
Submissions close 11:59 PM PT, Thursday December 31.
Thank you for your participation in the 19th Annual Game Audio Network Guild Awards. This year, we have continued to clarify and update submission and voting guidelines.
Eligibility
Submissions are required to have a release date between Jan 1, 2020 & Dec 31, 2020 to qualify for eligibility. If a game was released in a prior year, but has a highly significant content update (e.g. an expansion or DLC) and you wish to submit, enter a detailed description of the new content in the “Comments on Submission” Section.
Note: if a game is in “Early Access” or “Game Preview” it has NOT been officially released and therefore is NOT yet eligible for consideration.
Video Submissions:
Video links are provided to allow judges and members to view games they may not be as familiar with so they can get a better idea of how gameplay audio sounds in context of the overall game.
Game Trailers or other marketing videos will NOT be accepted, since they don’t reflect audio in the context of the game itself. If a submission has such a video, the video will be removed from the submission – submitters will not be contact if their submission violates submission guidelines and is removed. Titles removed for violating submission guidelines will not be stripped of eligibility and can be considered for all categories.
If you resubmit a title for consideration, please label the resubmission clear as such in the title or description of the new submission.
Video entry links must be submitted as Vimeo or ReelCrafter links. Links may be listed or unlisted. If you are submitting a video, they should be relevant to the category you are submitting for. Videos should show unaltered, live gameplay footage.
For example, if you are submitting a video for “Technical and Creative Achievement in Music,” the submission video must showcase footage captured in-game. We would not accept videos for “Best Interactive Score” if you show us footage that has edits of different scenes of gameplay with your linear score layered on top. Note that you *may* overlay text or narration describing what to listen for, but the underlying video and audio should be of captured game footage.
Indie Games Category Submissions:
For the purposes of the Game Audio Network Guild Awards, “Indie Games” are works that receive the bulk of their funding via their own resources, developers, private investors, crowdsourcing, grants, internal studio funding, or association with a university, school, or nonprofit institution. Submissions may be published or unpublished, but their development may not be largely funded by a publisher.
Taken largely by from Indiecade submission eligibility.
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