Adventure Game Studio

The Awards for the best games of 2007 are getting underway. Write-in nomination is about to start (you can specify any game you like, although only games added to the games database in 2007 are eligible). However, with so many possibilities you may lose the wood for the trees, so please can game authors suggest possible nomination categories for their games in this thread, along with a forum-signature-size banner if they like. Please, no more than one post per game, don't be silly with your posts and lets all be nice! Probably better to PM me with questions than clutter up this thread.

So, read the adverts in this thread and then go and vote here (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/awards.php?action=nominate)

Sho-Ryu-Ken Corp brought you this year:
Lone Case Locomotive Breath
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/takeon.png)

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=903

Lone Case 2:Scars
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/untitled31.jpg)
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=964

Lone Case 3: Showdown (DEMO)
(http://i133.photobucket.com/albums/q53/JustLedZep/27.jpg)

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=924

I suggest:
Lone Case 2:Scars as
Best Dialogue Writing
Music(Ishmael put his hand)
Best Puzzles They're not the smartest but I've put some effort

Dave Dell as
Best Player Character Well shooting and killing was never such fun!

John Faust as
Best Non-Player Character
Talking like Darth Vader, having a mechanical hand and beeing smart and helpful isn't assets that all NPCs have.. 8)

And Lone Case 3:Showdown as
Best Demo

P.S.
You can as well vote the game if you think it;s the best, but I'm keeping it real..
Anyway whether you vote or not.. Thanks to all those for taking the effort of downloading any of the games.

I would like to nominate Who Killed Who? as Best Idiotic Short Game and Most Unexpected Game Over Sequence (When the player tries to talk to various things.)
Oh yeah, and the OMG, You Made This With Linux Award.
Yes, I'm that much of an asshole.

For your consideration: A Tale of Two Kingdoms (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=905)

(http://crystalshard.net/images/shot4.png)

• An intriguing story that is part epic and part fairy tale - best story.
• Nearly a hundred vivid backgrounds in classic adventure style - best background art.
• Rolling waves, magic spells, idle character emotes, and dozens of little animals that wander and fly around - best animation.
• A wide cast of characters, from noble to serf and from hare to Faerie, all animated and speaking to one another - best character art.
• From the quirky Pooka to the stolid monk, and between the feral goblins and the comical Scarecrow - best non-player character.
• Over an hour of high quality MP3 music - best music.
• Many puzzles have multiple solutions, making the gameplay highly non-linear - best puzzles.
• A colorful 23-page manual in PDF - best manual.

Aside from that, ATOTK has a number of innovative programming tricks. You can order other characters around, and have them solve puzzles for you. Many characters wander through town of their own accord. There are many details like birds flying away, fog, and falling leaves. The text boxes come with initials at the top, in a different font. A minigame is included - the boardgame Dampiry. And there's even a nasty spell that inverts your mouse controls... - best programming

Since Le Woltaire is lying in a hospital at the moment
I'm going to nominate "Earl Bobby is looking for his Balls" for him.

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=846

The game doesn't really have a plot or so...
And sometimes I thought the author is a bit crazy,
or at least a freak...  ;)
(http://spectrum.sitesled.com/games/Juhu.png)

But the game has a lot of surprises, that I didn't expect
and was however not really mentioned around this place...

I think it should be nominated in the categories:
- Best Puzzles (wrenched, non-linear, but still logical)
- Best Player Character  ("Earl Bobby")
- Best Non-Player Character  ("Lula" the nymphomaniac Girl, "Arnold the Armour" or "The Greenkeeper")
- Best Character Art (tons of animated close-ups)
- Best Animation
- Best Use of Sound (Voices and so on)
- Best Use of Music  (the "Birdie Song")
- Best Documentation
- Best Scripting  (interactive arcade passages and a virtual golf tournament)
- Best Backgrounds
- Best Voice Acting, if this exists...
- Best Story, an adventure game where you have to look for your own balls. That's a story!

Play it, it's worth some puzzling...!

Asterix and the roman underground for best demo game
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=832

Please consider my game:

"Nelly Cootalot: Spoonbeaks Ahoy (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=30440.msg389322#msg389322)"

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/NCscreen1b.gif)

Nelly Cootalot features:

(http://nelly.johnsendesign.info/Images/bullet.gif) A heroine with a taste for adventure and a flare for disguise - Best Player Character
(http://nelly.johnsendesign.info/Images/bullet.gif) A rich soundtrack by Mark "Mark 'm0ds' Lovegrove" Lovegrove - Best Music
(http://nelly.johnsendesign.info/Images/bullet.gif) Salty nautical punning - Best Dialogue
(http://nelly.johnsendesign.info/Images/bullet.gif) Wobbly Stylised hi-resolution backdrops - Best Background Art
(http://nelly.johnsendesign.info/Images/bullet.gif) Quirky cut-out style character design - Best Character Art
(http://nelly.johnsendesign.info/Images/bullet.gif) A cast of truculent bucanneers and animal assistants- Best Non-Player Character
(http://nelly.johnsendesign.info/Images/bullet.gif) Um... there were quite a lot of animations - Best Animation

And it may be too late, but I'd like to suggest some alternative nomination categories:

Best recycling of pirate clichés.
Best bird-themed adventure.
Best non-kingdom related game.

I released only 1 game last year.

Amoto's Puf (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=925)

You may wish to consider nominating it in the non adventure game catagory.

(http://homepage.ntlworld.com/dtgames/screens/amotos.jpg)

Well... I sure released one hell of a lot of games last year, so can I nominate myself for Most Productive Crappy Game Producer 2007?  :=

Now, for the serious part.

_ACCESS (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=862)

It's sure been a long, long, long time since this was released so it might have gotten a little out of your memory (which is why I'm putting this here... ::) :P) but nevertheless, I'd like to enter it for Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS and Best Gameplay 2007. You've GOT to love playing as a hacker!

Also, I'd like to nominate Hindenburg from Washed Ashore (Deluxe) (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=940) for Best Non-Player Character... come on, he's a senitent floating Zeppelin with a degree in Engineering! Who doesn't love these?

Also also, just for the laughs basically, Me Go Store II and III for Best Dialogue. Yes, both of them.  :=.

Hi,

Please consider my game Chinese Checkers (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=935) as

Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS (board game in AGS is quite rare, and of course it'll bring some memories for many people, and Chinese Checkers / Stern-Halma is my favourite board game, and ofcourse, you don't have to arrange the marbles everytime you want to play, coz the game will do it for you..  ;) )

and

Best Programming (Scripting AI for a board game is very challenging and scripting game with a lot of grids is quite tough, especially to maintain the code)


Also, please consider my other game,
Fynewrylst Memories: The Secret of The Golden River (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=859) as Best Story (for it's originality and simplicity)

Thanks..  :D

(http://img2.freeimagehosting.net/uploads/f701e9fb12.jpg) (http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t177/maztc/ss_img_1_large.jpg)

I can remember this one . . .

(http://www.2dadventure.com/ags/TDIOSTitelScreen.jpg)


Trevor Daison in outer space - Chapter One (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=894)

I know it's short . . . maybe the best short game of 2007?


Play and vote . . .

For your consideration: La Croix Pan (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=31539.0)
(http://img524.imageshack.us/img524/3459/screenshot0ii5.png)

• It copies Automation and World War II shooters (Best Gameplay)
• It has pixel backgrounds (Best Background Art)
• Featuring tons of animations for two different types of characters (Best Animation)
• Featuring a sniper sequence with hit detection on 4 body parts, rudimentary AI, action sequences, and more. (Best Programming)
• On the audio front, you can hear war ambiance throughout the game (explosions in the distance, booms), gun sound effects, and changing footsteps depending on the surface you are walking on. (Best Use of Sound)
• This game is short. (Best Short Game)

For Your Consideration:

Unbound: A Wound Vignette

(http://homepage.eircom.net/~limpingfish/UnbScrn.gif)

Thanks to everybody who downloaded and/or took the time to add a player rating for Unbound.

If you enjoyed playing Unbound, why not nominate it in the following AGS Award categories:

Best Short Game

Best Background Art

Best Use of Sound

Best Dialogue Writing

...or any other categories that might take your fancy. :)

Thanks again, and good luck to everybody putting their games forward for this years awards.

For your consideration: Charlie Foxtrot & the Galaxy of Tomorrow (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=906).  Sure there was no magic, but....  well, that's about the only thing that was missing.  This game has everything, including a myriad of reasons to nominate it!

(http://www.vanwijst.com/games/charlie_foxtrot/montage.PNG)

The dark horse of this year's awards, I think the game can compete in the following categories:

BEST STORY -A rebel clone tours a zany galaxy that parodies dozens of aspects of sci-fi pop-culture in an uproariously funny adventure while both finding himself and saving the day.  I think that's no mean feat in a plot!

BEST DIALOGUE -Witty or insightful, but never neither.  Who can forget the rants of Ace Kilnobi, the Viet Centauri vet, the casual snarkiness of Jimmy Thnozz the photo bug, or the familiarity-breeds-contempt exchanges between Forbert and Quadra, his long-time wife who has been grafted onto his abdomen? 

BEST NON-PLAYER CHARACTER -I've had a lot of positive responses about the Ace Kilnobi character (Viet Centauri vet).  His outrageous relapses and the shady atmosphere of his den combined to make him very memorable.

BEST PUZZLES -Every puzzle was logical and yet challenging in its own way.  Without giving too much away, players have responded positively to the photo-development sequence, the potato = death mystery, and the walk-without-rhythm puzzle.

BEST ANIMATION -This game has hundreds of animations, involving both background characters and almost every conceivable action by the main character, from getting flushed to being eaten by a dinosaur, from fist-fighting a clown to dancing up a storm.  Also, who could forget the intense fight sequence involving Master Yogo the martial arts expert?

BEST DOCUMENTATION - Well, it was only a five page PDF but it was pretty funny, besides relaying technical and game information.  It appeared to have been published in the Intergalactic Intergazette on Jebsday, the 36th of Pentember, 2997. 

I leave it to you to decide whether or not it is worth nominating.  Just don't not nominate it because you haven't played it: that would be copping out.

Baron

Oh, this is For Your Consideration thread.

Then consider:
- Help! the game (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=914) for best demo
- CoMATtCEHoSVD (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=856) for best story and backgrounds
- Text Parser Game (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=868) for... oh yeah, we don't have p3n1s anymore.
- Plan10 from My Pants! (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=926) for best non-adventure.
- Me Go Cannibal Jungle (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=961) for stuff
- Alienation (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=977) - for best backgrounds and stuff

That's the ones I am least ashamed of...

Let's see. How about Revelation (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=933) for Best Programming and Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS?


Justification: there are only two platformer-based games with AGS (the really old James Bond thingie and 1213 - Art of Theft used the same engine as 1213) and none of these were written in less than 3 weeks for a MAGS, none of these gave you multiple weapons and none of these allowed players to create and share their own levels with walls, enemies, power-ups, etc. Programming such a game with AGS is a challenge. If you don't believe me, just try doing it yourself. :p Especially hard is the moving across ledges, waypoints for enemies, shooting, special fx (smoke when bullets hit wall) and of course, parsing the own level file-format correctly.

Please consider:

"Earl Mansin: The Breakout (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=31710.0)"

(http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/325/newscreencapjh4.png)

Earl Mansin gots(for the most):

A criminally insane homicidal psychopath - Best Player Character
Mood-capturing soundtrack by Ariel "Svartberg" Chai - Best Music
High quality voice acting with a lot of character - Best Voice Acting
Backgrounds I had to re-do twice just to make them look good - Best Background Art
Features both video cutscenes and in-game animations - Best Animation
At some occasions the puzzles makes sense kind of - Best Puzzles

For your kind consideration:


It's got 2 rooms! -- Best Short Game
It's got logical puzzles that can be done in any order! -- Best Puzzles
It's got funny descriptions and dialogue! -- Best Dialogue
It's got a lovable yet depressing starving artist... who, uh, has a cold! -- Best Player Character

Thanks for your time :)

Yo, bitches!

If you know what's good for you, you'll not only nominate The Crackwell Legacy (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=900) for the P3N1S Award, you'll bring the award back especially so it can win it!

(http://www.childrenofwhores.com/gameizzle/crackwell.png)

- Blowie the Ghost

Quote from: blowie on Tue 15/01/2008 04:07:09
Yo, bitches!

If you know what's good for you, you'll nominate The Crackwell Legacy (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=900) for the P3N1S Award!
- Blowie the Ghost

I would, but that award has been canceled this year.

FYC:

AFTER A SHADOW

(http://www.teekoo.org/bulkshot.jpg)

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=882

What I think it should have going for it:
-Best Music - Moody acoustic soundtrack recorded with luv.
-Best Short Game - A thrilling story that just ends too quickly!
-Best Voice Acting - Sexy and manly narrator, wets my pants every time.

edit: No, I`m not with stupid, just forgot that rule...

OH MAN! They banned the controversial PEN15 award!!! Noooo!

Controversy & mockery is teh best!!1

Doubt I'll attend the awards if there's no peni5 award to look forward to at the end ;)

*clap*

For your consideration...

Trance-Pacific (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=932) (see banner at bottom of this post)
* Best Gameplay
* Best Story - Vince and his friends discover something fishy on board and solve the mystery!
* Best Dialogue Writing - See the characters' personalities come to life through the witty dialogue!
* Best Puzzles
* Best Player Character - Vince, the hypnotist
* Best Background Art - Luxury cruise liner setting
* Best Character Art - Someone told me he thinks Eve is sexy!
* Best Programming - 200 hours of blood, sweat and tears!

NB Some game authors would actually rather that other people promote their games than do it themselves, so if there's a game that hasn't been mentioned yet that you thick deserves consideration, you can mention it here too... but if its already here, please don't post it again!

Oh no! Your forgot this demo!   ??? :o No way! ;)
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=31703.0  ;D

Beyond the horizon:
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=887 (http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=887)

For best
Background music - nicely done
Gameplay - with Jake you get interactive help in the game later
Story - 6 different endings and unexpected story developements
Dialogue writing - Dialogues between Spencer and Jake
Puzzles - Sometimes tricky and challenging
Player character - Spencer, the old morosely cop
Non player character - Jake, the "heavenly" helper
Scripting - nicely done too
Best love affair - Spencer and Emma (Love hurts)

Quote from: SSH on Wed 16/01/2008 11:04:58
NB Some game authors would actually rather that other people promote their games than do it themselves, so if there's a game that hasn't been mentioned yet that you thick deserves consideration, you can mention it here too... but if its already here, please don't post it again!

I honestly don't know if I can do that. It's either I haven't completed or played the games or it's already mentioned.... commercial games count too right?

Blackwell Unbound! Blackwell Unbound for your consideration!

best music- A collection of jazzy meet tech music that you can listen all day to. Made by the briliant Thomas Regin.

best Gameplay- You are able to switch characters and there are things joey can do that Lauren can't and vice versa.

best Story- nicely written and thought through, there's never a boring moment.

best Dialouge- always... The various conversations Joey and Lauren have are realistic and often funny.

best Puzzles- Smart puzzles, includes those 'Oh my God it was in front of my face all this time and I took hours hitting joey with a sax!' puzzles which qualifyies it for medium games.

best player character- Lauren, for contributing to the green house effect more than any game character ever has.
                                    Joey, for his never ending duty as the bestower of sarcasm.

best scripting- the conversations between Joey and Isaac was said to be very difficult codewise. Go Dave!

Best non-player character- The phone book, for being so useful...inanimate objects don't count? kay...then I say Harriet Jones, for being...well...Harriet; Cecil Sharpe, for being dreamy; The countess for being...grandma a misguided medium; Dwayne for being such a hard worker; Isaac, you know why; Joseph Mitchell for being real (which means he reallly did write...appreciated). Mavis?....

Best background art- simple, but the attention to detail is simply awsome, and I rarely use the word awesome, I don't know why I chose awesome, it just came out as I typed.

Best animation - again conversations between joey and isaac were said to be difficult, Here's to Ivy who helped make it happen; I also liked Lauren's idle animation.

Best Character art- the possibility that Michael Jackson was modelled after Lauren is just...

I think that's all... did I miss anything?

For your consideration: The Marionette for Best Demo

http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/games.php?action=detail&id=842

..::INFINITY STRING::..

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* Best Gameplay - all around good game (good GUI, simple controls, nice graphics and great sound)
* Best Story        - complicated saga about a fate of the alien race and humans
* Best Puzzles    - complicated but LOGICAL puzzles
* Best Player Character - Yerik Elnar, a normal guy seeking greater truth about himself
* Best Background Art   - Antartica, alien ships, and jungle in excellent 320x240 pixel graphics

Hi guys,

I'm nominating my game Purgatorio for a few AGS awards

The game can be Downloaded here (89MB):

Purgatorio
(http://www.filefactory.com/file/f6424a/)

I'm nominating it for:

- Best Character Art
Photographed and stylized characters that seem at home in the game world. Also a photographed walk-cycle is not easy to do.

- Best Music
This short game offers 30 minutes of original music that ranges from gentle, atmospheric outdoor melodies, to sleazy bar room music, to eerie, disquieting music designed to put you on edge. The music in Purgatorio plays a big part in setting the mood, and each piece was recorded solely for this game.

- Best Documentation
Interesting and informative Instructional PDF manual included in download

- Best Short Game
Purgatorio was created by a single person and I'm very proud of the results. It's short but a great deal of effort went into it and I'd like to nominate it as best short game.

- Best Background art
The background art is 800x600 resolution with 32 bit colours. It is a mixture of photographed and hand drawn images, brought together to give a stylized and atmospheric environment to explore. Many subtle animations helped create that atmosphere. Although it is a short game it has 25 unique indoor and outdoor locations.

- Best Puzzles
I like to think the puzzles were original without being too far removed from what adventure gamers are used to. The general consensus regarding the keypad puzzle is that people loved it or hated it. Ah well.


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Hope you guys enjoy playing it.

As a representative for the females that are part of this forum. I hereby nominate the CL1TOR1S Award as a replacement for the P3N1S Award.

Also I would like to cast a vote for the common cold as most original plot in a short game. or for best short game

And a double vote for Nelly Cootalot as most user friendly game icons and best visuals. or for everything Ali mentioned

;D

Oh, what the hell. I never win anything, but here goes.

For your consideration.... (drum roll please)



- Best Dialog
My puzzles may often come up lacking, but I think the writing is the most solid part of the Barn Runner universe.

- Best Non Player Character: The Chief
I love writing dialog for her as much as my hero loves pining away for her.

- Best Background Art
I think I've come a long way with my ColorformsTM inspired design for the world of Barn Runner. The silly Ark/Church and its interior shots are something I probably have no right to be so proud of, but there it is.

And just to get my hopes up way too high...

- Best Short Game
Not a chance in hell of winning this one, but damn, this game has some Christmas spirit! And everybody loves Christmas!

Well, there you have it. Feel free to break my heart... *sniffle*  ;)

- Ponch