AGS Awards 2019 - For Your Consideration

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cat

Have you made a game in 2019 and want it to compete in the AGS Awards 2019? 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 it 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. The earlier you post, the more time people have to play your game!

Frodo

For Your Consideration


Headbanger's Heaven - A Rock & Roll Adventure

DOWNLOAD
Created by Frodo


Jason Miller is a typical teenage rocker.  Loves to stay up all night and sleep all day.  And of course, headbang to his favourite music. 
When he enters a competition in Kerplow Rock Magazine, he never dreamed he would actually win first prize!
But won, he has.  And now he gets to spend the afternoon with his favourite band, Uptempo Maniacs, and get a private performance of their new song. 

He is SO excited!  He still can't believe it, even when the limo driver drops him off at the band's mansion. 
He has his autograph book, all ready to get autographs from all 6 of the band members.  And he CANNOT WAIT for the special private performance. 

But if he thinks he's in for an easy afternoon, he's got another think coming. 


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Please consider this game for:
  -  Best game created with AGS
  -  Best freeware game created with AGS
  -  Best writing
  -  Best character
  -  Best gameplay
  -  Best puzzle


Privateer Puddin'

#2
For Your Consideration


Help Molly achieve her dream of entering the legendary Feria d'Arles - France's greatest bullfighting competition. Meet, betray, and generally become a nuisance to a host of characters.









Launch Trailer:


Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Writing
Best Character (Molly)
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Music & Sound

Thank you!

Laura Hunt

#3
For your consideration:

A ROOM WITHOUT YOU IN IT

A  first-person escape-the-room style point-and-click narrative adventure dealing with grief, trauma and depression, and how they can take us to a place that's very hard to come back from.





https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2340/


Please consider this game for:

- Best writing
- Best character (Unnamed protagonist)
- Best short game?
(Maybe? Am I even worthy?)

Chicky

For Your Consideration


Guard Duty is a "Pythonesque" comedy adventure that spans two radically different time periods --
the cobbled streets of medieval Wrinklewood and the future dystopia of Neo London.

Replete with cheeky humour, stylised cartoon pixel art, and a story that blurs the lines between fantasy and sci-fi.










Launch Trailer:



Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Writing
Best Character (Tondbert)
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Music & Sound

<3

Thanyx

#5

For your consideration:

Metaphobia is a free investigative mystery game in the style of classic 1990's point-and-click adventures.

STORY
Shortly after being elected mayor, Carl Elmstat is murdered by a thief who is quickly caught, convicted, and sent to prison, case closed. Carl's son Richard however, is unsettled by the details and decides to investigate further on his own. His prime suspect? His father's political rival, Edward Raban. Throughout the investigation, Richard will find out that the truth behind the murder is hidden deep under the ground, deeper than he ever could have imagined.

FEATURES
-Fully Voice-Acted
-Rotoscopic Animations
-Retro Graphics
-Original Soundtrack, SFX
-Over 30 locations and 20 characters
-All wrapped in a thrilling, ever-evolving investigative drama.

DOWNLOAD
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2352/

Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Music & Sound
Best Voice Work
Best Programming


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shaun9991

For your consideration...

SUMATRA: FATE OF YANDI

AGS Database: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2346/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/610900/Sumatra_Fate_of_Yandi/
Itch: https://shaun9991.itch.io/sumatra-fate-of-yandi


   

Sumatra: Fate of Yandi is a traditional point and click adventure that tells the story of Yandi, a logging worker who gets caught up in a terrible landslide, leaving him lost and alone deep in the jungle. Join him on his quest to find his best friend and coworker Ramdan, and return home to his beloved partner Adiratna.

Complicating things, the regret of recent arguments with Adiratna loom over him. The desire to make amends will drive him forward as he makes his way through vast expanses of unexplored forest and desolate wasteland, where many dangers and secrets will be revealed...

Will Yandi reunite with his friend Ramdan? Will he make it home to his beloved Adiratna? Will he even make it out alive?

FEATURES:
- An old-school point and click adventure aesthetic with many puzzles and an intriguing storyline.
- A range of interesting characters to encounter along the way... both human and animal, friend and foe.
- A variety of subtly unfolding mysteries to keep Yandi on his toes.
- A nostalgic style that harks back to the early classics of the genre - with a fresh setting and streamlined interface.
- Original soundtrack featuring 30 tracks.
- Approximately 3-5 hours of gameplay with a rich and vibrant world to explore.

   

Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Writing
Best Character (Yandi)
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Music & Sound

Thanks! <3
Support Cloak and Dagger Games on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=460039

lorenzo

For your consideration:




DOWNLOAD LINK










Clotilde's new (old) spaceship has decided to take a trip to the sun. With her inside. Clotilde isn't too happy about the news.
Only you can save the ship! And maybe Clotilde's life too.

Please consider this game for:

- Best Game Created with AGS (because it's definitely a game made with AGS)
- Best Freeware Game Created with AGS (it's free! As a bird!)
- Best Background Art (there are lots of pixels)
- Best Character Art (Clotilde has nice hair)
- Best Animation (there is a lot of fire in the game)
- Best Writing (some words in the game are pretty long)
- Best Character (Clotilde? So many characters! At least four.)
- Best Gameplay (see: "Best Puzzles")
- Best Puzzles (see: "Best Gameplay")
- Best Short Game (it's really short)

cat



AGS Database entry

An English learning game for toddlers by cat, Marcin K. and CaptainD. Learn a bunch of words in three different categories and do a quiz afterwards to prove your skills.





Please consider this game for:

Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGS
Best Character Art
Best Voice Work

Jack

Heroes of Wyrdale [MAGS]

An action-adventure with the adventure never added due to time constraints.

Choose 1-2 of 3 characters with varying abilities and dispatch some bots.





Possible nominations:
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Non-Adventure Game
Best Programming
Best Gameplay

Download for Windows
Download for Linux



The Village [MAGS]

A small village building game with art by JimReed.

Supply housing and food for your residents, and build other structures to grow the population.





Possible nominations:
Best Background Art
Best Music & Sound
Best Non-Adventure Game
Best Programming
Best Gameplay

Download for Windows
Download for Linux

Knoodn

#10
For your consideration:

ZAK repixeled



 

Zak McKracken's first couple of rooms in a repixeled version.
It's not the complete game, but you can do all the interactions the original one has in it.
Try it yourself!



Possible categories to nominate the game for:
Worst Character Art
Worst Background Art
Worst Sound
Second Best Box Art
Second Best Short Game
Second Best Programming

CaptainD

Feels so weird not having anything to offer for this year's awards, but great to see so many amazing games made with AGS in the past 12 months.

Vincent

#12
For your consideration:




Created by SPAMFASTIC STUDIOS



The Story:
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Jayvin an unlikely hero, if every there was one, stumbles into a portal and finds himself in the land of Naturnum.
Unbeknown to him, his arrival has been expected.
Evil forces, commanded by the Dark Lord, Arachemon, are wreaking havoc across the Universe.
Only Jayvin has the power to fight these forces and put an end to Arachemon's reign of terror.





DOWNLOAD IT:



Please consider this game for:
- Best Game Created with AGS
- Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
- Best Writing
- Best Character (Jayvin)
- Best Gameplay
- Best Puzzles
- Best Background Art
- Best Character Art
- Best Animation
- Best Music & Sound
- Best Programming

Thanks! <3

Cassiebsg

#13
For your consideration:


Space Cross: The BSG-Team



About this game
Starbuck's crash of the week takes him to a planet where he meets some odd people. Take control while he tries to fix his viper and return to the fleet.

Mags entry under the theme: Crossover
Game res: 960x600 32bit Full color!

January MAGS winner! :)

AGS Entry page: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2325/

Longplay YT video:


Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS (freeware)
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Writing
Best Character (Starbuck, Mr.T)
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Music & Sound
Best Programming


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Birdy Birdy



About this game
Play as a sparrow... Become the sparrow...
Made for MAGS July 2019, themed "Animal protagonists".
Point&Click Adventure game

LINUX version available on mirror download link!

AGS Entry page: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2366/

Please consider for:










Best Game Created with AGS (freeware & Short game)
Best Writing(pip pip pip.... how many games have characters talking in pips?)  (laugh)
Best Background Art (just look at that beautiful park? don't you wish you could be there?)
Best Character Art(there's kids and sparrows and even a fairy!)
Best Character (The Sparrow)
Best Gameplay(Flapping wings to solve puzzles as a sparrow!)
Best Puzzles(when you're a sparrow solving any puzzle is mind blowing!)
Best Music & Sound(All those sparrow music and sparrow sounds!)
Best Programming (Did I mentioned playing as a sparrow and flying yet?)


___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

(Posting for Blondbraid)

Thrymly disguised



About this game
Thor's hammer has been stolen by the evil giant Thrym, and so Thor must team up with Loki to retrieve it.

This game was made for MAGS in February 2019 with the theme Dressing up.

AGS Entry page: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2332/

Playthrough video:


Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS (freeware & Short)
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Writing
Best Character (Thor, Loki)
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Music & Sound
Best Voice Acting
Best Programming
There are those who believe that life here began out there...

cat

Cave of Avarice
by Blondbraid, cat, Slasher and CaptainD


A former Dahomey Amazon turned mercenary has been hired by two explorers for leading them to a cave said to contain a great treasure. The mercenary has been tasked with guarding the entrance while the two explorers enter, but as gunshots are heard from within only to be followed by silence, the mercenary chooses to investigate...






Please consider this game for
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Short Game
Best Writing
Best Character (Amazon)
Best Background Art
Best Gameplay
Best Programming (maze, lamp, ambient sound effects)

Danvzare

Reality-in-the-Norm




Click here to download.

Summary:
Reality-on-the-Norm is a game series where anyone can make a game. This is my installment.

Set in a slightly different dimension to the other RON games, Reality-in-the-Norm follows David Jones at the end of a treasure hunt. See completely different versions of old characters, as well some new ones, as you get to witness a completely different take of Reality.

Please consider for:
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Short Game
Best Writing
Best Character (David)
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Worst Programming (I'm still amazed at the lack of bugs. Word of advice, improv is ok for dialog, but not for game design.)
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Jack

Looking at this thread, AGS has had a good year.

Carles

#17
The Castle

Evil has taken over a small town. But a group of courageous adventurers has decided to organize an expedition to end the feared vampire.

Features:


  • Make a team of 3 adventurers of 7 candidates.

  • Each character has its abilities and defects with which it is easier or harder to finish the adventure. Some can be very clumsy ...

  • Watch with the castle guards, do not let yourself get caught!

  • 5 different endings, some are easy and others are extremely difficult, find them all!

  • Point and click adventure

  • Originally written in Spanish and translated into English

  • Powerful last-generation graphics never seen.

Download  new version 1.0.05

Walkthrough

Characters:



Endings:
Spoiler

  • Moon of Blood - easy
  • Lovers - moderate
  • Stealth Killer - moderate
  • Infernal Punishment - hard
  • Extermination - hard
[close]

Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS - It was created as a hobby, by a fan of Ron Gilbert's games.
Best Gameplay - Many ways to solve the puzzles, to die and beat the game.
Best Animation - There is a pool with sharks and a giant octopus!
Best Programming - It was a headache to program the chases through the castle and the intertwined puzzles with different characters.
Best Character - Up to 7!
Best Puzzles - In some of them you will need several team members.
Best Writing - Don't you think it's a fun game?
Best Character Art - Based on the style of Maniac Mansion.
Best Background Art - Drawings made pixel by pixel with GIMP.

Screenshots:












Stupot

Quote from: Jack on Mon 13/01/2020 22:59:08
Looking at this thread, AGS has had a good year.
Was just thinking the same thing. This is a nice harvest.

JSH

#19
Whispers of a Machine





Whispers of a Machine is a Sci-Fi Nordic Noir that tells the story of Vera, a cybernetically augmented special agent tasked with investigating a string of murders.

These brutal killings obscure a sinister truth, as Vera soon finds ties to a group of fanatics committed to creating an AI superintelligence â€" a pursuit outlawed for nearly a century. Complicating things, a great loss from Vera's past comes back to haunt her, making her question her own sanity and everything she stands for.

As an agent of the Central Bureau, Vera is equipped with an advanced nano-substance called Blue. This rare and sought-after technology allows her to develop superhuman abilities adapted to her psychological mindset. Choose your playstyle and utilize these augmentations to investigate, gather information, and solve puzzles with multiple solutions.

Will Vera's unique blend of skills and intuition be enough to solve the case, or will she discover that things are more ambiguous than they seemed? In this emotionally gripping story with existential twists and multiple endings, Vera's actions will have monumental consequences not only for herself, but for all of humanity...

INVESTIGATION, AUGMENTED:
• Will Vera approach situations with a more empathetic, analytical, or assertive style? Your choices will impact her augmentations and subsequent puzzle solutions.

A POST-AI FUTURISTIC DYSTOPIA:
• Immerse yourself in a realized world of beautifully hand-drawn pixel art design and gorgeous settings influenced by the Nordics.

POINT-AND-CLICK INNOVATION:
• A groundbreaking entry to the point-and-click adventure game genre by the experienced developers of Kathy Rain and The Samaritan Paradox.

PROFESSIONALLY VOICED:
• 4,000+ lines of dialogue with full English voice acting, directed by Wadjet Eye Games' Dave Gilbert.

Get it here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/631570/Whispers_of_a_Machine
https://www.gog.com/game/whispers_of_a_machine
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/whispers-of-a-machine/id1452404930?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.rawfury.woam&hl=en

AGS Database:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2339/

Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Gameplay
Best Writing
Best Puzzles
Best Music and Sound
Best Character
Best Voice Acting
Best Character Art
Best Background Art
Best Animation
Best Programming

ManicMatt

#20
Ah, why not.

Trails and Traces - The Tomb of Thomas Tew

"It's refreshing to play an indie adventure game that's inspired by the likes of Broken Sword and Gabriel Knight, and not every LucasArts or Sierra game." - GamersPack

"A classic-styled point-and-click adventure that is a genuinely fun experience but at three hours of play time just isn't given enough time to fully spread its wings." - Adventure Gamers

- Inspired by the Broken Sword games, but with an extra dose of humour.
- An interactive jukebox with a few tunes by Because Because!
- Look at everything and do crazy stuff like trying to use a megaphone on unsuspecting people.
- UNPROFESSIONALLY VOICED:  ;)
Lots of different characters voiced by yours truly, plus two characters voiced by our very own Captain D and a couple of people you probably don't know.





AGS Database page:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2329/

Available for purchase from:
https://becausebecause.itch.io/trails-and-traces-the-tomb-of-thomas-tew


Please consider for:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Gameplay
Best Writing
Best Puzzles
Best Music and Sound
Best Character
Best Voice Acting
Best Character Art
Best Background Art
Best Animation

FransisKransis

#21
For Your Consideration:

Falling Dark is a love story with political undertones. Or possibly a political story with romantic undertones, I'm not sure.

"The year is 1999. The underground culture of the nineties is coming to an end. It is being replaced by a corporate-driven growth of technology and a culture of distraction. In the last dark streets of the city, people stand against this change to preserve their own ways of life. However, as entities start to sell out, it becomes only a matter of time before the underground is divided and conquered.
In the midst of this, is Taylor. A simple person of an older time, struggling to keep their head above water as they're sucked deep into the heart of this conflict, and this division.”

"Falling Dark" is a point and click adventure game with RPG elements, featuring:
- Several branching narrative paths.
- A blend of 'Point and Click' puzzle solving and combat.
- A variety of hidden side-quests and encounters.
- And an original soundtrack.

Also, this game is not rated by the ESRB, but if it were, it would be a hard M.

Downloads:
AGS: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2388/
Itch: https://thinking-of-cremation.itch.io/falling-dark

Please consider for:
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Gameplay
Best Music & Sound

Screenshots:

                                                                               



-FranFran <3

eri0o

For Your Consideration:


In the near future, a woman is killed and Detective Logan is sent to investigate her death, working remotely with others in his police department.
Understanding the circumstances of the murder will help uncover an uneasy truth.

Please consider for:
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Gameplay
Best Music & Sound
Best Voice Acting




Hell's Puppy



database entry

A platformer game where Satan is imprisoned in a dog and he needs to go back to Hell.


Please consider for:
Best Programming
Best Gameplay
Best Character Art
Best Background Art
Best Music & Sound

TripTilt

A bit late, but that teaser trailer had to be done! :D





Planet NOEGATO-BAS is controlled by FUELZ, a giant corporation. FUELZ has pipelines all over the planet and controls around 90% of the trade on the planet. Recently FUELZ shortened workers' wages on planet Noegato-Bas and also introduced a currency they pay it out in, that is only accepted in Rocket Town, the capital and spaceport of Noegato-Bas.

Dim is part of a loose cell of workers united unter the name of MOLOTOV. Their plan is to disrupt business of the FUELZ company and especially to destroy one of their pipelines in the southern district. You play as Dim and your task is to help him reach MOLOTOV's goals!

Get it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkhSAkcp9dI

This game was originally made in a week for the Cyberpunkjam 2019. After the jam was over it evolved into this and was released a while ago, but only now the overdramatizing trailer is done :)
We are now working on getting complete voice acting for the game!


please consider for
Best Freeware Game
Best Writing
Best Gameplay
Best Background Art
Best Animation
Best Short Game
Best Programming
Best Puzzles

WHAM

I humbly submit for your consideration: GNRBLEX [Steam Edition]
The game is available, free of charge, on the Steam distribution platform.

An evolution of a 2016 MAGS entry, the final version of GNRBLEX adds:
- New enhanced art and animation
- Full voice acting by four talented voice actors
- An original soundtrack
- A handful of gameplay enhancements and new puzzles

>> LINK TO TRAILER <<







Wrongthinker and anticitizen one. Utterly untrustworthy. Pending removal to memory hole.

King Mob

#25
Please consider for Best Demo  :)

Hi, everyone! We're a little studio called Orbis Tertius Games, founded by two Argentinian expatriates currently leaving in Europe, and this is our first AGS game.

Personal Rocket

"Paranoids are not paranoids because they're paranoid, but because they
keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations."

--Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow


DOWNLOAD DEMO FOR WINDOWS AND LINUX HERE:
https://lunafromthemoon.itch.io/personal-rocket-demo


The Story, or what the fuss is all about

Six months ago, Cole Fisher was fired from his job as a computer engineer at Cosmic X, a corporation devoted to the betterment of the human race, the pursuit of world peace and eventual space conquest. The reason? He found out what they're really up to. It's quite obvious, you know. They're trying to take over the world.

Since then, Cole has been holed up in his apartment hacking his way through endless labyrinthine connections, gathering as much data as he could to expose the biggest conspiracy in human history.

And now, Cole has had a surreal vision, a religious experience, a close encounter, call it what you like. A Mysterious Messenger has told him it's time to act and bring down Cosmic X once and for all. Or at least that's his take on it.

Personal Rocket is a tale of paranoia and loneliness, the evils of capitalism and too much web surfing, the material world and the Occult universe. Your typical postmodern blues.


The Screenshots, or what it looks like










This will be a medium-length game, and the demo is roughly half of the game.
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