🏆 AGS Awards 2024 - Nominate!

Started by cat, Wed 01/01/2025 18:01:22

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Ponch

Quote from: Rik_Vargard on Mon 13/01/2025 21:05:10Same here. Taking some time to play games this month.  (nod)
Same with me.

heltenjon

I nominate the ones I've already played, then edit when I've played something else good.

cat

As @heltenjon has pointed out, you can modify your nominations until the deadline. So you can already nominate the games you have played so far and change your votes when you play more.
However, it's totally up to you how you will do it  :)

I'm glad there is interest in the awards and people are playing the games  :-*

Rik_Vargard


cat

As you might have noticed, @AGA and @tampie85 made a shiny new website for AGS and migrated it last weekend! Hooray for that!

While nominations are still ongoing, there is now a new URL for them:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/ags-awards/

Could you please verify that your can access the page, see your nominations and modify them?
And if you haven't nominated, yet: There is still a week left to do so - we could really need a few more people nominating!

Kastchey

Yes, I can access and modify my nominations. Everything looks good.

cat

Nominations end this Sunday!

We need more votes, especially in the "Short Game" and "Best Character" categories.

"Best Character" currently has only 2 valid nominations (i.e. only two characters got the required 5 votes). If this doesn't change, we might not do this category next year.

Rik_Vargard

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Quote from: cat on Mon 27/01/2025 08:03:03Could you please verify that your can access the page, see your nominations and modify them?
And if you haven't nominated, yet: There is still a week left to do so - we could really need a few more people nominating!

Yep, works fine here. All is there in more beautiful and better. Just clicked on the "Submit" button to test and all seems fine  (nod)

One side question that has been answered but I forgot: What category does the puzzle enjoyment go in?

cat

Thanks for testing!

Puzzle is now part of "Gameplay".

Ponch

Quote from: cat on Tue 28/01/2025 18:48:05Nominations end this Sunday!

We need more votes, especially in the "Short Game" and "Best Character" categories.

"Best Character" currently has only 2 valid nominations (i.e. only two characters got the required 5 votes). If this doesn't change, we might not do this category next year.
I will have my votes in by Saturday morning, my time. I still have a couple of games to power through.  :smiley:

Kastchey

One thing I noticed today is that I no longer seem to be able to vote for more than one Best Character from the same game. It accepts the two of them, but when I save and revisit the page, only one of them is there.

Ponch

Quote from: cat on Tue 28/01/2025 18:48:05"Best Character" currently has only 2 valid nominations (i.e. only two characters got the required 5 votes). If this doesn't change, we might not do this category next year.
But Best Character is the most important category there is (see sig file below)  :wink:

heltenjon

I cannot find Stormwater on the list of games to nominate. Is it perhaps automatically blocked because of the demo release the year before, called Stormwater - Early access? I don't really think it ought to be.

Kastchey

I remember nominating Stormwater this year so it was definitely there before, but I cannot see it now either.

The game was added on the 31st of December so perhaps something went wrong with the cutoff date/time stamp on the new page?

cat

I've contacted @AGA so I assume he will have a look at it soon.

Since we had a few technical issues, we will extend the nomination period a bit, so watch out for updates here.

tampie85

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Quote from: heltenjon on Fri 31/01/2025 02:53:36I cannot find Stormwater on the list of games to nominate. Is it perhaps automatically blocked because of the demo release the year before, called Stormwater - Early access? I don't really think it ought to be.

Really sorry about this! Kastchey is right, we only used the date, which caused the cut-off date to be 31/12 00:00:00 instead of 31/12 23:59:59. Stormwater was added at 31/12 05:36

It's fixed now. It is the only game in the database added on 31/12, so no other games were affected.

FransisKransis

That's partially on me too, something about best avoiding last minute deadlines.

Anyway, thanks guys!  :)

cat

The nomination period is extended by one week.

Nominations are now running until 9 February

This gives you one more week for playing the games. You can also head over to the MAGGIES thread and play last year's MAGS winners as they are also possible award nominees - two birds with one stone!


AGA and tampie85 are still working on the best character issue. We will let you know when it is fixed.

Rik_Vargard

When I click on "Select an option" for "Best Non-Adventure Game" or "Best Short Game", all the games are appearing...?

AGA

Quote from: Rik_Vargard on Sat 01/02/2025 09:11:35When I click on "Select an option" for "Best Non-Adventure Game" or "Best Short Game", all the games are appearing...?

This is because the game categories historically haven't been very well curated.  So we made the decision to only filter a limited number of very obvious categories, like commercial / freeware.

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