22nd Annual G.A.N.G. Award Show
Thursday, March 21, 2024, 7:30pm
Moscone Center
During GDC (Game Developer Conference)
Note: You must have a GDC “Expo Pass” or higher in order to attend the 22nd G.A.N.G. Awards Show (“Friday Only” Expo pass is ok)
Submission Information
Order Duplicate Trophies & Certificates
Congratulations to the nominees and winners of the 2022 G.A.N.G. Awards! Duplicate trophies and nominee certificates are available now for a limited time.
Trophies and Certificates from prior years may also be ordered
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Current Nominees
Audio of the Year Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, CD PROJEKT RED, CD PROJEKT RED Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Destiny 2: Lightfall Bungie, Bungie Mortal Kombat 1 NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Games Diablo IV Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment | Best Audio for a Casual or Social Game Honor of Kings, TiMi Studio Group, Tencent Games Diablo Immortal, Blizzard Entertainment, NetEase Games, Blizzard Entertainment Disney Illusion Island Dlala Studios, Disney Games Call of Duty: Mobile TiMi Studio Group, Activision Harry Potter: Magic Awakened Warner Bros. Games, Netease Games, Portkey Games |
Best Audio for an Indie Game Tchia Awaceb, Kepler Interactive Eternights Studio Sai, Studio Sai Planet of Lana Wishfully, Thunderful Publishing City of Beats Torched Hill, Freedom Games Viewfinder Sad Owl Studios, Thunderful Publishing | Best Audio Mix Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, CD PROJEKT RED CD, PROJEKT RED Mortal Kombat 1 NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Games Diablo IV Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment Destiny 2: Lightfall Bungie, Bungie Baldur’s Gate 3 Larian Studios, Larian Studios |
Best Cinematic & Cut Scene Audio Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, CD PROJEKT RED CD, PROJEKT RED Diablo IV Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Destiny 2: Lightfall Bungie, Bungie Mortal Kombat 1 NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Games | Best Dialogue for an Indie Game Bramble: The Mountain King Dimfrost Studio, Merge Games Blasphemous 2 The Game Kitchen, Team17 Broken Spectre Games by Stitch, Games by Stitch |
Best Ensemble Cast Performance Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Baldur’s Gate 3 Larian Studios, Larian Studios Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical Summerfall Studio, Humble Games | Best Game Audio Article or Publication Game Audio Mixing: Insights to Improve Your Mixing Performance Alex Riviere, Routledge Game Audio Fundamentals: An Introduction to the Theory, Planning, and Practice of Soundscape Creation for Games Keith Zizza, Routledge Working with Sound: The Future of Audio Work in Interactive Entertainment Rob Bridgett, Routledge “SEASON: A letter to the future | Experiencing field recording as a game mechanic” Vibe Avenue & Spencer Doran, Audiokinetic Blog A Sound Effect interview “Star Wars Jedi: Survivor” Jennifer Walden, A Sound Effect |
Best Game Audio Presentation, Podcast, or Broadcast Game Developers Conference 2023 “The Art of the Theme” Brendon Williams, Jason Walsh Game Tonebenders Sound Design Podcast “227 – Moss: Book II” Timothy Muirhead, Mark Kilborn National Public Radio “The Sounds of America: The Super Mario Bros. Theme Song“ Jennie Cataldo, National Public Radio Tonebenders Sound Design Podcast “217 – Recording Animals with Mattia Cellotto & Dmitry Chernov” Timothy Muirhead, Tonebenders Sound Design Podcast Game Developers Conference 2023 “Chaos Theory in Game Music” Winifred Phillips, Game Developers Conference 2023 | Best Game Foley Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Diablo IV Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, CD PROJEKT RED CD, PROJEKT RED Dead Space Motive Studio, Electronic Arts Minecraft Legends Blackbird Interactive, Mojang Studios, Xbox Game Studios |
Best Game Music Cover or Remix “It’s Pizza Time!”- The Game Brass, Pizza Tower The Game Brass “Supernova” – Joe Newman, Erich Bechmann, Logan Tucker, Sam Schwartz, and Bert Keely, Ristar “Metroid Prime” – ROZEN, Metroid Prime ROZEN, Mecha Dream Records “In the Donk” (feat. the Super Soul Bros.) – Joe Newman, Robbie Benson, Brian Sheu, Anthony Franceschi, Alex Popoff, Christian Manzana, Sam Schwartz, Logan Tucker, Bert Keely, Erich Beckmann, and Gene Dreyband Super Mario Odyssey “Song of Storms” – Gentle Game Lullabies, Andrea Vanzo, Gentle Gaming: Zelda for Piano Andrea Vanzo, Decca Records US | Best Game Trailer Audio Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Diablo IV Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, CD PROJEKT RED CD, PROJEKT RED Dead Space Motive Studio, Electronic Arts Destiny 2: Lightfall Bungie, Bungie |
Best Main Theme Tchia, Awaceb, Kepler Interactive Mortal Kombat 1 NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Games Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Baldur’s Gate 3 Larian Studios, Larian Studios The Dark Pictures: Switchback VR Supermassive Games, Supermassive Games | Best Music for an Indie Game Tchia, Awaceb, Kepler Interactive Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical Summerfall Studio, Humble Games Firmament Cyan Inc., Cyan Inc. Kingdom Eighties Fury Studios, Raw Fury QUANTAAR Pumpkin VR, Pumpkin VR |
Best New Original IP Audio Tchia, Awaceb, Kepler Interactive Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, Summerfall Studio Humble Games Firmament, Cyan, Inc. Cyan, Inc. Kingdom Eighties, Fury Studios, Raw Fury QUANTAAR, Pumpkin VR, Pumpkin VR | Best Original Song Song VI “Ö ngo eka” (Reprise) from Tchia, Awaceb, Kepler Interactive “Adrift” from Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, Summerfall Studio, Humble Games “Horizons” from Planet of Lana, Wishfully, Thunderful Publishing “Second Chance” from Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Games “Eseerin Vashina” Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts |
Best Original Soundtrack Album Tchia, Awaceb, Kepler Interactive Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Kingdom Eighties, Fury Studios, Raw Fury Planet of Lana, Wishfully, Thunderful Publishing Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Games STRAYLIGHT, Dr. Bloc, Dr. Bloc | Best Sound Design for an Indie Game Viewfinder, Sad Owl Studios, Thunderful Publishing SEASON: A letter to the future, Scavengers, Scavengers Scrap Riders, Games For Tutti, Microids Strayed Lights, Embers, Embers Cantata, Afterschool Studio, Modern Wolf |
Best UI, Reward, or Objective Sound Design Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios, Larian Studios Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty, CD PROJEKT RED, CD PROJEKT RED Diablo IV, Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment Hello Kitty, Island Adventure, Sunblink Entertainment Sanrio | Best Voice Performance Ellise Chappell as Kathy Johanson, Deliver Us Mars, KeokeN Interactive, Frontier Foundry Morla Gorrondona as Eris, Destiny 2: Season of the Witch, Bungie, Bungie Debra Wilson as Cere Junda, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Noshir Dalal as Bode Akuna, Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Samantha Béart as Karlach, Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios, Larian Studios |
Creative and Technical Achievement in Music Tchia, Awaceb, Kepler Interactive Stray Gods: The Roleplaying Musical, Summerfall, Studio Humble Games City of Beats, Torched Hill, Freedom Games Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts COCOON, Geometric Interactive, Annapurna Interactive | Creative and Technical Achievement in Sound Design Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts City of Beats, Torched Hill, Freedom Games Viewfinder, Sad Owl Studios, Thunderful Publishing SEASON: A letter to the future, Scavengers, Scavengers Diablo IV, Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment |
Dialogue of the Year Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment Electronic Arts Destiny 2: Lightfall, Bungie Bungie Deliver Us Mars, KeokeN Interactive Frontier Foundry Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios, Larian Studios Diablo IV, Blizzard Entertainment Blizzard Entertainment | Music of the Year Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Tchia, Awaceb, Kepler Interactive Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Games Baldur’s Gate 3, Larian Studios, Larian Studios Planet of Lana, Wishfully, Thunderful Publishing |
Sound Design of the Year Star Wars Jedi: Survivor, Respawn Entertainment, Electronic Arts Mortal Kombat 1, NetherRealm Studios, Warner Bros. Games Diablo IV, Blizzard Entertainment, Blizzard Entertainment COCOON, Geometric Interactive Annapurna Interactive Dead Space, Motive Studio, Electronic Arts |
The Awards Show Process
Submissions for the G.A.N.G. Awards occur in the Fall, with the show itself occurring at the end of March (usually at GDC). Submissions are first vetted for eligibility. After submissions are verified to be eligible and in the correct category, Nominees in each category are selected by one of four nominating committees: Music Committee, Sound Design Committee, Dialogue Committee and “other Awards.” The committees comprise members of the G.A.N.G. Board of Directors, Advisory Board and other interested members of G.A.N.G.
Once the nominees are selected in each category, the final winner is voted on by the membership at large. The final winner is determined by a weighting of the full membership vote and the original committee vote.
Certain awards, such as Lifetime Achievement, the G.A.N.G. Recognition Award, The G.A.N.G Service Award, and the G.A.N.G. Ambassador Award are typically chosen directly by the G.A.N.G. officers.
Note:The Game Audio Network Guild may take measures it deems necessary to protect the integrity of the G.A.N.G. Awards from outside influence, vote trading, bloc voting or any other factors that could jeopardize the process.
If you would like to be part of the G.A.N.G. Awards Process, please contact us!
2023
Winners
Full list of winners and nominees from the 21st Game Audio Network Guild Awards.
2022
Winners
Full list of winners and nominees from the 20th Game Audio Network Guild Awards.
Archive
Winners and nominees from the previous Game Audio Network Guild Awards.
Awards Archive
View the updated list of winners from the 21st Annual G.A.N.G. Awards here.
Watch the 20th Annual G.A.N.G Awards here.
