AGSN Awards 2005

Stee · Fri 20/01/2006 11:38:56

THe AGSN Awards are here! AGS has been nominated and so have a few developers for their games. Vote now!

http://www.agsn.co.uk

Links are on the main page news.

Domino · Sat 21/01/2006 01:35:32

Looks like AGS is kicking some butt in the Best Freeware Development Tool category.

Kinoko is also under the Most Promising Freeware Programmer.

Mordalles · Sat 21/01/2006 01:41:37

isnt there a big difference between programming and scripting. people who write the actual game engine are the programmers. the rest of us just scripts a bit here and there.
edit: haha, i just read some of the other awards, and its seems they dont play a lot of adventure games themselves, judging by their choices.

Kinoko · Sat 21/01/2006 02:06:58

I am?? o_O I better go have a look then I guess.

EDIT: YES! AGS is kicking ass!

Renal Shutdown · Sat 21/01/2006 03:31:26

Are any of our games in the "Best Freeware Adventure" section?

EDIT:

Apologies if:
Adventures in the Galaxy of Fantabulous Wonderment
Galaxy Lander (Arcade Adventure)
Minds Eye
..are AGS games, I've been away for a while.

The first sounds like something Pesty would knock up because she's got the afternoon off. The second sounds like something ProgZMAX would do because he's got a tea break and the third sounds like something David Bowie's manager would cook up to rake in some more cash.

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Sat 21/01/2006 03:39:25

Uh, actually Spleen...The third one is my game -_-. I'll give your regards to David, though.

[shameless plug]Friends, Romans, Bowie fans....Help me beat Galaxy Lander by casting your vote for Mind's Eye![/shameless plug]

Kinoko · Sat 21/01/2006 04:16:25

I voted for Mind's Eye, and now that's it's been associated with David Bowie, I'd vote for it a hundred times over

Darth Mandarb · Sat 21/01/2006 15:49:29

FoY and Amulet of Kings are nominated in the "most promising freeware games" section.

Congrats to the rest who are representing the AGS community so well!

Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens · Mon 23/01/2006 05:25:58

wee, a few more votes and I could actually win something for a change o_o. Thanks for the votes you crazy people!

Stee · Mon 23/01/2006 16:14:11

Quote from: Mordalles on Sat 21/01/2006 01:41:37
isnt there a big difference between programming and scripting. people who write the actual game engine are the programmers. the rest of us just scripts a bit here and there.
edit: haha, i just read some of the other awards, and its seems they dont play a lot of adventure games themselves, judging by their choices.

If you write a game in javascript or vbscript, have you scripted or programmed it?

They are scripting languages, yet require programming knowledge. Same as scripting in AGS, you still need to know the concept of programming. It involves variables, conditional statements etc.

Mordalles · Mon 23/01/2006 20:11:02

Quote from: Stee on Mon 23/01/2006 16:14:11
Quote from: Mordalles on Sat 21/01/2006 01:41:37
isnt there a big difference between programming and scripting. people who write the actual game engine are the programmers. the rest of us just scripts a bit here and there.
edit: haha, i just read some of the other awards, and its seems they dont play a lot of adventure games themselves, judging by their choices.

If you write a game in javascript or vbscript, have you scripted or programmed it?

They are scripting languages, yet require programming knowledge. Same as scripting in AGS, you still need to know the concept of programming. It involves variables, conditional statements etc.

oh, come on, chris jones is the only one who does real programming around here. the rest of us just call a few functions and add a little bit of scripting, and a tiny bit of programming for the things that the engine doesnt do for us immediately.
if you want to give a reward for programming, give it to someone one who actually wrote the whole engine for his game.
anyway, im not going to get in a heated discussion, so im not going to say anymore on the matter. we aggree to disaggree. i have programmed for 5 years before i saw AGS, but im sure i could have written a game without any programming knowledge in ags, since everything is already done. (and im talking about the hard parts, like the graphics programming and collision detection and stuff)

CoyoteJack · Thu 26/01/2006 08:12:51

Quote from: ProgZmax on Mon 23/01/2006 05:25:58
wee, a few more votes and I could actually win something for a change o_o.Ã,Â Thanks for the votes you crazy people!

I'll be casting my vote, and like one of the posters above, the Bowie-reference would drive me to vote over and over again for a very considerable amount of time.

Nikolas · Thu 26/01/2006 08:28:08

Darth you got my vote, for a lot of reasons but the main one is this: Amulet of the Kings is very promising.

On another more mean note, KQIX, seems to be getting 3 (!) votes so far. Ahhhh... Too much publicity if you ask me.