# 12th British Academy Games Awards

The 12th British Academy Game Awards awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, is an award ceremony that was held on 7 April 2016 at Tobacco Dock in London. The ceremony honoured achievement in video gaming in 2015 and was hosted by Dara Ó Briain.

## Winners and nominees

The nominees for the 12th British Academy Games Awards were announced on 10 March 2016.
The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on 7 April 2016.

### Awards

Winners are shown first in bold.
| Artistic Achievement Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt | Mobile & Handheld Her Story – Sam Barlow Alphabear – Spry Fox Fallout Shelter – Bethesda Game Studios and Behaviour Interactive/Bethesda Softworks Lara Croft Go – Square Enix Montréal/Square Enix Prune – Joel McDonald and Kyle Preston The Room Three – Fireproof Games |
| Audio Achievement Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Ubisoft/Ubisoft Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment Star Wars Battlefront – EA DICE/Electronic Arts The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt | Multiplayer Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix Destiny: The Taken King – Bungie/Activision Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – Matt Hammill, Jamie Tucker, Adam Winkels, Asteroid Base/Asteroid Base Splatoon – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege – Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft World of Warships – Lesta Studio/Wargaming |
| Best Game Fallout 4 – Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt | Music Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – Jessica Curry, The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Assassin's Creed Syndicate – Austin Wintory, Tripod and Bear McCreary, Ubisoft/Ubisoft Batman: Arkham Knight – Nick Arundel and David Buckley, Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Fallout 4 – Inon Zur, Bethesda Game Studios/Bethesda Softworks Halo 5: Guardians – Kazuma Jinnouchi, Nobuko Toda and Peter Cobbin, 343 Industries/Microsoft Studios Ori and the Blind Forest – Gareth Coker, Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios |
| British Game Batman: Arkham Knight – Rocksteady Studios/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Her Story – Sam Barlow Prison Architect – Introversion Software/Introversion Software Tearaway Unfolded – Tarsier Studios and Media Molecule/Sony Computer Entertainment Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment | Original Property Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Her Story – Sam Barlow Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios Splatoon – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo |
| Debut Game Her Story – Sam Barlow Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes – Ben Kane, Brian Fetter and Allen Pestaluky Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – Matt Hammill, Jamie Tucker, Adam Winkels Mini Metro – Dinosaur Polo Club/Dinosaur Polo Club and Playism Ori and the Blind Forest – Moon Studios/Microsoft Studios Prune – Joel McDonald and Kyle Preston | Performer Merle Dandridge – Everybody's Gone to the Rapture as Kate Collins Ashly Burch – Life Is Strange as Chloe Price Doug Cockle – The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt as Geralt of Rivia Oliver Dimsdale – Everybody's Gone to the Rapture as Stephen Appleton Mark Hamill – Batman: Arkham Knight as The Joker Masasa Moyo – Broken Age: Act 2 as Vella |
| Family Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix Disney Infinity 3.0 – John Blackburn, John Vignocchi and Bob Lowe, Avalanche Software/Disney Interactive Studios FIFA 16 – EA Canada/EA Sports Guitar Hero Live – FreeStyleGames/Activision Lego Dimensions – Jon Burton, James McLoughlin and Nick Ricks, TT Games/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Super Mario Maker – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo | Persistent Game Prison Architect – Introversion Software/Introversion Software Destiny: The Taken King – Bungie/Activision Final Fantasy XIV: A Realm Reborn – Square Enix/Square Enix Guitar Hero Live – FreeStyleGames/Activision Lego Dimensions – Jon Burton, James McLoughlin and Dave Dootson The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt |
| Game Design Bloodborne – FromSoftware/Sony Computer Entertainment Grow Home – Ubisoft Reflections/Ubisoft Her Story – Sam Barlow Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime – Matt Hammill, Jamie Tucker, Adam Winkels, Asteroid Base/Asteroid Base Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt | Sport Rocket League – Psyonix/Psyonix Dirt Rally – Codemasters/Codemasters FIFA 16 – EA Canada/EA Sports Football Manager 2016 – Sports Interactive/Sega Forza Motorsport 6 – Ryan Cooper, Bill Giese and Dave Gierok, Turn 10 Studios/Microsoft Studios Pro Evolution Soccer 2016 – PES Productions/Konami |
| Game Innovation Her Story – Sam Barlow Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain – Kojima Productions/Konami Digital Entertainment Splatoon – Nintendo EAD/Nintendo Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment | Story Life Is Strange – Dontnod Entertainment/Square Enix Everybody's Gone to the Rapture – The Chinese Room and Santa Monica Studio/Sony Computer Entertainment Her Story – Sam Barlow Undertale – Toby Fox Until Dawn – Supermassive Games/Sony Computer Entertainment The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt – CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt |

### BAFTA Fellowship Award

* John Carmack

### BAFTA Ones to Watch Award

* Sundown – Steven Li, Aaron Hong, Mclean Goldwhite, Theodore Park, Kenny Regan, Cynthia Cantrell, Gracie May and Jade Kim

### AMD eSports Audience Award

* Smite