These twelve will select the recipient of the second Game Designers Award.

Kazutoshi Ida (Grasshopper Manufacturer)
Jiro Ishii (Level-5)
Fumito Ueda (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Masayoshi Kikuchi (Sega)
Hifumi Kouno (Nude Maker)
Masahiro Sakurai (Sora)
Ryutaro Takahashi (Nintendo)
Hideki Kamiya (Platinum Games)
Shuu Takumi (Capcom)
Keiichiro Sotoyama (Sony Computer Entertainment)
Jin Fujisawa (Square Enix)
Shinji Mikami (Tango)

- Games that were released from April 1, 2010 through March 31, 2011 qualify
- Voters cannot select their own game
- winner to be announced during a stage event at TGS 2011