🏆 AGS Awards 2024 - Ceremony on Sunday, 23 March 2025!

AGA · Sun 02/02/2025 16:49:07

Quote from: Kastchey on Thu 30/01/2025 21:54:06One 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.

This should work now. The nominations were stored properly, it's just the second instances were just filtered out when filling the form with stored nominations.

Ponch · Mon 03/02/2025 01:22:09

Nominated!

Man, there were a LOT of really good games this year. I don't think I've ever nominated this many different games across all the categories before.

cat · Thu 06/02/2025 08:13:28

Last few days!

cat · Sat 08/02/2025 17:33:45

Nominations end tomorrow, time to get you last votes in

cat · Sun 09/02/2025 15:17:33

Last few hours!

cat · Tue 11/02/2025 08:13:09

Nomination Results!

Without further ado, here are the 2024 nominees for the AGS Awards:

BEST GAME OF THE YEAR
- An English Haunting
- The Adventures of The Black Hawk
- The Crimson Diamond
- The Legend of Skye
- The Phantom Fellows

BEST FREEWARE GAME
- Falco - Lighting strike in town festival
- It Takes Two to Tangle
- Teeth of Glass
- The Anchorite
- The Shame of the Pack

BEST SHORT GAME
- Becalmed
- Botos do Diabo
- Gurk in Trouble - A Yip Quest Story
- Teeth of Glass
- The Anchorite

BEST NON-ADVENTURE GAME
- Bad to the Coral
- Flow Problem
- Foodie Frenzy ( A1-A2)
- Stop

BEST DEMO
- METRO CITY: Resistance DEMO
- Melon Head Demo
- Splendor Solis (demo)
- Temple of the Three Rules (Demo)

BEST AUDIO
- An English Haunting
- It Takes Two to Tangle
- The Adventures of The Black Hawk
- The Legend of Skye
- The Phantom Fellows

BEST VISUALS
- An English Haunting
- It Takes Two to Tangle
- The Adventures of The Black Hawk
- The Crimson Diamond
- The Legend of Skye

BEST WRITING
- An English Haunting
- The Adventures of The Black Hawk
- The Crimson Diamond
- The Legend of Skye
- The Phantom Fellows

BEST PROGRAMMING
- An English Haunting
- MORT: Manageably OK Response Team
- The Crimson Diamond
- The Legend of Skye
- The Phantom Fellows

BEST CHARACTER
- An English Haunting (Patrick Moore)
- The Adventures of The Black Hawk (Jean Pierre de Saint-Cove)
- The Legend of Skye (Skye)
- The Phantom Fellows (Oliver Cobblestone)
- The Phantom Fellows (Englebert Picklebender)

BEST GAMEPLAY
- An English Haunting
- The Adventures of The Black Hawk
- The Crimson Diamond
- The Legend of Skye
- The Phantom Fellows

Congratulations!

If your game was not nominated - don't be sad! Many, many more games got votes but we can only have the top 5 continue to the final voting.

Thanks to everyone who took the time to play the games, make a decision and nominate games for each category.

Thanks to @tampie85 and @AGA who handled the technical part of the nominations and added lots of fixes and some awesome new features for handling the awards behind the scenes. This allows me to give you a few stats:

* 40 users have nominated, this equals to 4.82% percent of users that have been active in 2024
* In total, 1034 nominations were done.
* The category with the highest average number of nominations per person is "Best Freeware Game" with 4.45, followed by "Best Game of the Year" with 4.15

Voting will start this Friday, so get playing those games you haven't, yet!

I will also set up a poll for the ceremony date, soon.

mkennedy · Tue 11/02/2025 14:46:48

Something you may want to consider is adding the awards to the calendar at:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/calendar/

Rik_Vargard · Tue 11/02/2025 18:22:28

Congratulations to all the nominated games!

Ramorama · Tue 11/02/2025 18:23:11

Congratulations, everyone!

Kastchey · Tue 11/02/2025 21:20:50

Congratulations to the nominees!

cat · Wed 12/02/2025 10:02:21

Here is a list of all games that got at least one nomination - gotta play 'em all!

- An English Haunting
- Bad to the Coral
- Becalmed
- Botos do Diabo
- Falco - Lighting strike in town festival
- Flow Problem
- Foodie Frenzy ( A1-A2)
- Gurk in Trouble - A Yip Quest Story
- It Takes Two to Tangle
- Melon Head Demo
- METRO CITY: Resistance DEMO
- MORT: Manageably OK Response Team
- Splendor Solis (demo)
- Stop
- Teeth of Glass
- Temple of the Three Rules (Demo)
- The Adventures of The Black Hawk
- The Anchorite
- The Crimson Diamond
- The Legend of Skye
- The Phantom Fellows
- The Shame of the Pack

heltenjon · Wed 12/02/2025 11:57:14

Congratulations to the nominees! I see that five or six games are dominant through multiple categories. It will be interesting to see if the awards will be shared among these or if one runs off with a cartload.

While I've nominated most of the ones that made it through to the final voting round, I've also given votes to some others. So to honour some more creators and games, here's a list of games I voted for (in one or more categories) that didn't make it to the finals.

Spoiler

Brownie's Adventure
Day of the Hamster
In Our Midst
Use it All (Which may not be a counting vote)
Brian Eggs is Lost in the Woods
Dread McFarlane v2
Kidname: ICEBOY
The Last One
Melon Head
The Stew of Las Moras
A Doll in a Dream
Stormwater - the Complete Edition
The Green & Red
Breakfast Requiem
My Siblings, The Stones
2080 Wall City Lockdown

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cat · Thu 13/02/2025 08:24:36

Awards voting will start tomorrow. In the meantime, you can already

Vote for the ceremony date

I hope we find a date where lots of people can join.

Stupot · Fri 14/02/2025 06:15:56

Congratulations to all the nominees.

Parallel to the AGS Awards, we also have MAGGIES. For anyone who doesn't know, this is the vote for the winner-of-winners of MAGS, our monthly forum-based game jam.

Voting for MAGGIES is now OPEN, so please head to the thread, play the games (they're all fairly short) and vote for your top three:

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/adventure-related-talk-chat/maggies-2024-play-the-games/

cat · Fri 14/02/2025 11:52:30

Voting has started!

Play the games you haven't played, yet. Then go to the voting page and help decide the winners:

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/ags-awards/

Voting is open until Sunday 9 March 2025 at 23:59 GMT

Again, as with nominations, only users who registered in 2024 or earlier are allowed to vote.

heltenjon · Fri 14/02/2025 13:42:13

Voted!

I haven't finished all the games, but if I change my mind after doing so, luckily, I can change my votes.

It was a lot easier to decide here, when some of my odd favourites weren't elegible. The nominations do give an impression about which type of games have the best chances of reaching an audience.

Ponch · Tue 18/02/2025 19:43:43

Voted.

Quote from: heltenjon on Fri 14/02/2025 13:42:13It was a lot easier to decide here, when some of my odd favourites weren't elegible.

I had the same experience. My Siblings, The Stones didn't make the final cut in any category? Really?

Looking forward to the ceremony.

RootBound · Tue 18/02/2025 20:24:27

Quote from: Ponch on Tue 18/02/2025 19:43:43My Siblings, The Stones didn't make the final cut in any category? Really?

@Ponch this comment made my day! But given the number of commercial-quality games released this year, I'm just absolutely thrilled that my other two games (MORT and Bad to the Coral) still got noticed.

A crowded field of great games is a wonderful problem to have, so I'm not complaining in the least.

cat · Mon 24/02/2025 20:09:44

*bump*

How are you getting along with voting? Have you played all nominated games already?

TheFrighter · Wed 26/02/2025 18:14:46

Voted! Can't wait for the results!

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