AGS Awards 2016 - For Your Consideration

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Have you made a game in 2016 and want it to compete in the AGS Awards 2016? This is the topic where to showcase it!
Post a database link, a brief description and some pictures (thumbnails preferred, here is an excellent FYC post from last year).

Do not be shy, by posting your game you are helping the players who will take some of their time to play/nominate/vote!

Usual remarks:

  • please include a link to your games page on the AGS games database
  • if you think a game deserves mention but the author isn't around, post a FYC for them! The more worthy games we get here, the better is for everyone!
  • this thread is for FYC posts only, if you want to discuss the awards go here!

Post your games here before nominations start, which will be in about two weeks. The earlier you post, the more time people have to play your game!

Amayirot Akago

Postman's Quest: Not Rain Nor Sleet Nor ARMAGEDDON
Download
AGS Database



You've slept through the apocalypse, but someone's still gotta deliver the mail. A humorous short adventure of mundane work in a hellish scenario.

My first real try at an AGS game, based on a silly idea based loosely on a real job I had. I consider this a practice run to familiarize myself with AGS more than anything, so this isn't exactly ambitious (hence why there's no sound, for one).

CONTROLS: Left click walks/interacts, right click examines/releases current inventory item. Move mouse to the top of the screen for inventory/save/load/quit.

Credits:
Amayirot Akago - Story, design, art, dialogue, scripting
Edmundito - AGS Tween Module 2.0
Ghost - Lightweight BASS 2.0 template

Possible awards:
Best short game
Best freeware game
Quote from: CaptainDMy suspicion is that an accident, probably caused by a lightning storm and a mad professor, resulted in Amayirot's brain becoming inextricably linked to the databases behind MobyGames and LemonAmiga.

Haggis

#2
FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION



The Man From Fugue State

A stranger arrives in the sleepy town of Tumbleweed, with no memory of his identity, to find the residents suffering at the hands of feared outlaw El Marcado, 'the marked one'. Soon he finds himself caught up in a plot to defeat the outlaw once and for all. But who is this stranger and why is the mysterious El Marcado so interested in Tumbleweed?

Born from my love of Spaghetti Westerns and LucasArts adventure games, this was my first attempt at an AGS game and was approx 10 years in the making. It nearly broke me (I broke it many times with my poor coding), but I survived to tell the tale.

I hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it,

Haggis (art, coding & writing).

DOWNLOAD
AGS Database - http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2044/
GameJolt - http://gamejolt.com/games/the-man-from-fugue-state/144234
MediaFire - https://www.mediafire.com/?93ep175nq5dyp0e

POSSIBLE AWARDS
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Music and Sound
Best Background Art
Best Character Art

SCREENSHOTS

 
   




Blondbraid

#3
Sniper and spotter being patriotic

A newly recruited red army soldier finds himself assigned to a new partner and the two of them soon find themselves in a series of misadventures in a wartorned soviet town...

Sniper and spotter being patriotic is a game which takes place in an eastern European town torn apart between the Axis and Soviet forces. The protagonists are the titular sniper and spotter fighting in what would be known as the great patriotic war in the Soviet union. It is a darkly humorous story serving partially as a satire of the many other games about WWII and the mindless action movies which inspired them.

It's my first longer project in AGS and I've spent about a year working on it. This game is a product of my love for classic 2D animation and my great interest in history.

POSSIBLE AWARDS
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation

Download
AGS Database: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2050/
GameJolt: http://gamejolt.com/games/sniper-and-spotter-being-patriotic/215926

Also for your consideration:
Fallen soldier

This game was made for MAGS in November 2016 with the theme "Afterlife" and although it features some of the characters from Sniper and spotter being patriotic, it can be payed independently.
Story: It is World War 2, and a young soldier is sent out onto the streets of a city without any idea how to protect himself. When he is shot dead by a young boy, his spirit rises up to take stock of how he has reached this point.
POSSIBLE AWARDS
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best short game

Download: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2108/


CaptainD

#4
I would like to nominate Selmiak's fantastic background art for a game Creamy and I worked on along with him for MAGS one month - A Sloth for Both Seasons.


 

Gord10

I don't expect to actually gain any award, but I'd still want to be nominated.

LOST ANSWERS
AGS Database: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2116/





Story
Story
"There was a dead guy lying in my apartment. He was shot with one bullet to the head. And my memory was all blank. Was I his murderer?

The police was after me, that made things much worse. While running from the police, I met a mysterious man. He told me that he will help me to find the answers. But he asked me to do something, first.

He wanted me to kill a harlequin called Hal. I'd find him in an abandoned manor at the desert.

I had to find that harlequin called Hal. I didn't want to murder anyone, but I didn't know what our confront would lead us. Maybe I was a cold-blooded killer and I didn't know yet?"

In the manor, you will confront some mysterious characters and your past with a sadist woman, Femme Fatale.

Possible awards
Best Short Game
Best Writing

I didn't count graphics, because most of the models are from Unity Asset Store.
Games are art!
My horror game, Self

Grundislav

#6
For Your Consideration:


Demo
AGS Database Entry






The world ended on the day the bombs fell. Since then, it's always been like this: disease, hunger, death. The ruling Aristocrats â€" a faceless oligarchy that controls all resources â€" have unchallenged authority. There's never enough food, water, or vaccine to go around. The rich receive regular doses of vaccinations in exchange for their unconditional government support. The poor live in fear, superstition, and squalor until they die.

Amy Wellard, a young woman reluctantly working for the government to qualify for the vaccine lottery, believes there's a cure â€" and she's going to find it. Even if it costs her her life.

cat


Toffee Trouble in Creamville by Miez and cat

When the mayor leaves town and Toffee is in charge of Creamville, anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.

Download
AGS database entry





Please consider this game for
Best Short Game
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Gameplay
Best Character (Toffee)
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Programming (catapult)
Best sugar shock ;)

Daniel Thomas

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

The Journey of Iesir *Demo*

The Journey of Iesir takes place in a land reminiscent of the medieval ages, yet has a story that integrates ideas as old as the legendary Vikings, and as modern as the hippie movement in the 1970's.

The player takes the role of Michael, a wandering playwright among other things, and he sees Iesir and its troubles through the fresh eyes of a stranger, yet he becomes pivotal to the events that unfold in Iesir.   Seeking both adventure and inspiration for his new screenplay, under the guidance of his mysterious Mentor, Mikael seeks out a Viking called Daniel Trondhjemsfjord, who needs help with a task that seems adventurous.  What seems like a simple quest of stealing a old Viking painting soon turns out to be more then Mikael could have ever imagined...

SCREENSHOTS




Download Here!
Read more over here: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53966.0


PLEASE CONSIDER THIS GAME FOR THESE AWARDS
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Demo
Best Music and Sound
Best Background Art
Best Animation
Best Character Art
Best Programming
Best Music and Sound
Check out The Journey of Iesir Demo | Freelance artist, check out my Portfolio

Riaise

#9
For your first consideration:


Story:
Old Woman Beardychin, a mature lady with inconvenient facial hair, is quite content to follow the same routine day after day, when suddenly her life is turned upside down by the arrival, and subsequent departure, of a Scruffedy Bumtious. Thus begins an frustratingly epic journey, full of peril and mishaps, which takes Beardychin far away from her safe and comfortable home. Will she ever find the Bumtious again?

Screenshots:
Click for larger versions:


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For your second consideration:


Story:
Made for MAGS November 2016, with the theme "Afterlife". The Psychopomp must guide newly dead souls to the Hereafter, but can they make the journey to safety?

Screenshots:
Click for larger versions:


Please consider either of these games for any suitable award category.

Creamy

#10
For your consideration :

OH DU LIEBER AUGUSTIN
by the tonic Miss Cat, Raeff and I for the January 2016 MAGS competition.

A game about a drunk body snatcher, as far as I remember.



Please consider this game for any suitable award category.

Download link
 

Danvzare

I would just like to remind everyone that CaptainD's Space Tunneler was added to the database on the 1st of January 2016. Because I recall people wanting to nominate that game last year without realizing they'd have to wait a year before they could.

So for your consideration:

Space Tunneler
A retro arcade game made for MAGS December 2015. Guide your spaceship through the space tunnels without getting destroyed.





Download link.

CaptainD

Aw thanks mate - I actually did consider posting about it myself but decided not to.  Glad to know at least one person actually remembers my game from a year ago! :grin:
 

Cassiebsg

A short little game I've made for MAGS May2016, theme: Jumpin' Jack Flash. :-D

Out of Gas

Very basic story: Jack is driving home, when he runs out of gas just a couple blocks from the gas station.
He now needs to walk there and return with some gas.



DOWNLOAD HERE: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2065/
Completed game thread: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53607
Hints & Tips: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53652

Please consider for any category you might find appropriate... like short games... (laugh)
There are those who believe that life here began out there...

Two Tales

#14
For your consideration:
   




Completed game thread: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53367.0
Hints and tips thread: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=53437.0
Database entry/download: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2033/

Please consider this game for any of the following:
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Writing
Best Music and Sound

Thank you :)

Radiant

#15
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Monkeys to the Moon!

Would you believe the MOON is a banana? Well, the monkeys do! And they're not going to take that lying down! Using spare wood, electric eels, and gratuitous reed they plan to build a rocket to fly to the world's biggest banana! In space! In this RTS-like puzzle game, control up to 25 monkeys at the same time as you scour the jungle for resources, build crafting workshops, breed more monkeys, and build The Rocket! Don't forget to defend yourself from hungry snakes. Includes a tutorial, of course.

Please consider for Best Non-Adventure Game as well as Best Programming. Did you know it was possible to make a real-time resource-based RTS game in AGS? Neither did I, until we made this! You can download it here and shoot for the moon!





AprilSkies

For your Consideration:

Tales is a traditional point and click adventure with English voice acting and music by Luigi Di Guida.

Alfred Walsh is the new librarian, but on his first day he will accidentally unleash a dreaded curse upon the shelves within. He must fix things fast - but how will his tale end? With the help of Merlin and some other familiar faces, Alfred must solve puzzles in the strangest of places if he is to succeed and stop the curse of Oblivion!




www.apemarina.altervista.org

Dualnames



Until I Have You by Dualnames and Andrea Ferrara

If you could save someone, how much of yourself would you be willing to sacrifice?

Until I Have You aims to recount a thrilling story of regret, love, corruption, and things gone haywire, under the strong, vibrant neon lights of a metropolitan city that just doesn't give a damn.

This is the story of the ARTIST, a talented assassin, who has worked many dirty jobs in a long and successful career. Finally heeding the pleadings of his wife, he has decided it's time to quit this ugly business and live a simple and peaceful life. However the ARTIST's clients know he is irreplaceable, and are unwilling to allow the craftsman to hangup his tool belt. They send him this message by kidnapping his wife, Emily, and make it clear, retirement is not an option! The ARTIST is determined to get his wife back, and prepares himself for one last assignment. He understands to be successful he needs to go all out, and he procures a rare exoskeleton suit. Although this provides him with additional powers, it also can cause hallucinations and affect his judgment.

Download DEMO
AGS database entry

Purchase Full Game
Steam Page






Consider this game for:
1) Best Programming:

  Game contains the following traits, all coded from scratch, all running at Max FPS:
      -Realtime Glitch Effect
      -Blur
      -Rain
      -Platformer
      -Controller Support (Mappable Keys for both Keyboard and Controller)
      -Slowmotion Effect
      -Canyon Runner levels
      -Noise Effect
      -Stats (Number of kills, deaths, kills per weapon, time per level, best time, etc)
      -Run two versions of the same level in realtime.
      -Custom savegame system thus unaffected by any update
 
2) Best Non-Adventure Game
3) Best Music and Sound (full soundtrack of 34 songs can be found here: https://untilihaveyou.bandcamp.com/album/until-i-have-you-official-soundtrack)
4) Best Background Art and Best Character Art created by the Wonderful Andrea Ferrara
5) Best Voice Work

        Containing the talents of:

            Vassia Kouremenou - Roy Follie
            Marissa Lenti - Newscaster
            Kieran T. Flitton - The Artist
            Olivia Johnson - Emily
            Moeka Garay - Nina
            Duffy P. Weber - Octavio,Ichi, Talk-Show Guys
            Vincent van Ommen - Keiroth
            AJ Lee - Clown
            Jordan Sailors - Advertisment(s) Voice
            Tuong Klein - Azael
            Caitlin Buckley - Orianna, Claire
            Cliff Thompson - Reinweiss
            CreepyPastaJr - Evdomos

6) Best Character (Artist)
7) Best Gameplay
8) Best Game Created with AGS
Worked on Strangeland, Primordia, Hob's Barrow, The Cat Lady, Mage's Initiation, Until I Have You, Downfall, Hunie Pop, and every game in the Wadjet Eye Games catalogue (porting)

Peder 🚀

#18
For your consideration:

U-ROPA



"You are a young technician working in an undersea vehicle extracting minerals.
It's your first day, but a serious accident happens.
You are trapped.
Will you survive? Will you escape?
Be quick, chose wisely, time is running out...
"

Team:
Atavismus: Story
Hobo: Gfx
Jonas Thiem: Music
Peder Johnsen: Code

AGS Database:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2002/

Website:
http://univert.games/games.html#U-ROPA

Please consider this game for any suitable award category.

Decaffeinated Jedi

#19
Stair Quest by No More For Today Productions

Stair Quest is a retro adventure game that pays homage to the most enchanting, pulse-pounding moments from the early King's Quest games. Please consider it for Best Short Game and Best Freeware Game Created with AGS, as well as categories recognizing excellence in graphics, gameplay, writing, and sound.


The realm of Castle's Wood is in despair. As famine, war, disease, and natural disaster wreak havoc upon the land, good King Jonathan seeks the counsel of a wise old Soothsayer.

"Seek ye out the Orb of Stars," she tells King Jonathan. Says the King, "The Orb of Stars is but a legend!" The Soothsayer replies with a sly grin, "Even in legend may one find the truth, m'lord."

So, King Jonathan dispatches his bravest knight, Sir Devon, to quest for the legendary Orb of Stars. Little does he know his own daughter, Princess Ingrid, has also set out in search of the fabled relic...



Features:

  • Gorgeous EGA graphics inspired by classic Sierra On-Line adventure games like King's Quest and The Black Cauldron!
  • An innovative text parser that recognizes literally thousands of commands!
  • Multiple protagonists! Choose to play as either the brave Sir Devon or the daring Princess Ingrid.
  • An original 8-bit soundtrack so good it could pass as a 9-bit soundtrack!
  • An old-school instruction manual filled with Stair Quest lore and important tips for success! So authentic, it could have been written by Roberta Williams herself. (It wasn't.)


Developed in two weeks for AdventureJam 2016 by No More For Today Productions (Patrick Johnston, Gareth Millward, Jess Morrissette, Frederik Olsen, Troels Pleimert, Chris Ushko, and Kevin Wallace). Cover art ("Roll for Initative...") by Jon Hodgson. Cover design by Andy Couch.

AGS Database: http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2057/
Website: http://gamejolt.com/games/stair-quest/147399

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