AGS AWARDS 2009 [read the log of the ceremony!]

[bicilotti]

Lots of nominations for McCharty... and to think my money was on McCarthy.

Oh fu- shi- let me correct that!

edit: done!

[Igor Hardy]

Thanks for counting up all the votes, AmericanGirlScouts, bicilotti and Pumaman.

The voting results are... fascinating! All games I voted for received at least one nod it seems.



EDIT: Nope. One of my choices got nothing.

[Snarky]

Great, for once I've actually played, if not most, at least a significant number of the nominees. Usually I have to devote several weekends to catch up on last year's games before I can cast my vote. Now I can rewatch The Wire instead.

[Wesray]

Wohoo! I played most of the nominated games, and all of those deserve their nominations in my opinion. Voting will be hard this year...

[Kweepa]

Best non-adventure game category:

AGS 180 Darts: both links are broken (time expired presumably).
All the magical things: the download link asks for an email address. Does anyone have a free link?
Medieval Prisoner: managed to create a "Scoring Chicks" popup box and told me there was no download bandwidth available and would I like to upgrade to premium?
World of our Own: the link takes me to an upload page instead of a download page.

(Shai-la wins by default!)

[markbilly]

Time Gentlemen, Please! has a lot of nominations, lets do the game and Zombie Cow justice this year! They should definitely win Best Dialogue and Best Puzzles...

Ben has quite a few nominations, too!

[Helme]

Tough competition in the puzzle category. Seeing Ben, Calin, Auriond & the zombie Cow in several categores isn't a big surprise, though.
I wonder why the users can't choose the best innovation?

[bicilotti]

Tough competition in the puzzle category. Seeing Ben, Calin, Auriond & the zombie Cow in several categores isn't a big surprise, though.
I wonder why the users can't choose the best innovation?

It was always committee decided and I preferred to change nothing this edition, so to test the water before any "reform" of the awards. If there's a general consensus towards user's choice I'll gladly do it in the 2010 edition (or whoever's the host).

Best non-adventure game category:

AGS 180 Darts: both links are broken (time expired presumably).
All the magical things: the download link asks for an email address. Does anyone have a free link?
Medieval Prisoner: managed to create a "Scoring Chicks" popup box and told me there was no download bandwidth available and would I like to upgrade to premium?
World of our Own: the link takes me to an upload page instead of a download page.

(Shai-la wins by default!)

PM'd the authors. Hopefully they'll post here once the problem is solved

[Igor Hardy]

I don't mind that much that the users can't choose the Best Innovation, but it would nice if there were nominations for this Award. I'm always interested in seeing what games were close to winning.

[Helme]

If there's a good explanation for it, it's okay for me. But right now I'm just wondering why it's treated differently.
But it's obviously a good way for the lifetime award.

[Shade]

AGS 180 Darts: both links are broken (time expired presumably).

updated both links. thx for the information. 

[Gepard]

Best non-adventure game category:

All the magical things: the download link asks for an email address. Does anyone have a free link?
Medieval Prisoner: managed to create a "Scoring Chicks" popup box and told me there was no download bandwidth available and would I like to upgrade to premium?
World of our Own: the link takes me to an upload page instead of a download page.

Sorry about that! As I said, Im in China now, so the internet is a hell of a mess! Here is the link for WOO: http://www.gigasize.com/get.php?d=386ynx4zfff
I cannot update the game page link as the internet crashes every time I try to access that page.
All the magical things link and Medieval Prisoners link should now be working.

Gepard

[blueskirt]

Great, for once I've actually played, if not most, at least a significant number of the nominees. Usually I have to devote several weekends to catch up on last year's games before I can cast my vote. Now I can rewatch The Wire instead.

Same here. I didn't play ATOTK back in 2007, and since it was in nomination in all categories, I didn't vote, and in 2008 it was far worse. Last year I stopped to shovel indie games in a folder everytime I was sucked in a big commercial game for weeks and I played each one of them as they were released. I only have 2 games to play but this year I'll finally be able to vote.

[SSH]

When does final voting start?

[xenogia]

I can't wait for the IRC awards ceremony

[Buckethead]

Could someone record the ceremony for those who can't attend?

[bicilotti]

When does final voting start?

As soon as CJ answers my PM back. Since I don't think he's the one who messes with americangirlsscout, I'll start harassing other folks.

I can't wait for the IRC awards ceremony

Could someone record the ceremony for those who can't attend?

There will be logfile.html!

edit: the number of people who nominated was 55, which left me quite disappointed.

[bicilotti]

• Vote now! Voting closes at 12:00 GMT on 22 Feb 2010
  
• IRC ceremony could be held at 22:00GMT on Sat 27 Feb 2010 Is that ok with you? If not tell us what timedate suits you best!
  

[Dualnames]

• Vote now! Voting closes at 12:00 GMT on 22 Feb 2010
  
• IRC ceremony could be held at 22:00GMT on Sat 27 Feb 2010 Is that ok with you? If not tell us what timedate suits you best!
  

Thankyou Dualnames, your votes have been counted. Keep an eye out for the Awards ceremony date when the winners will be announced!

Voted for mostly two games..And just noticed this typo.

[markbilly]

edit: the number of people who nominated was 55, which left me quite disappointed.

I've voted and tweeted, it would be nice if there was a big turnout, you've done a great job so far...