It's the end of January and I still haven't heard anything about the AGS Awards... are they still happening. Shouldn't nominations have happened by now? I'm all a-confuzzled. If I'm wrong, sorry, I'm only going off when they happened last year.
eep, I guess you are right,
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means they should happen tomorrow :P
A direct quote from Pesty (the new awards organiser) from the 3rd of January:
QuoteAlright you whiny babies, here's an update.
The Awards are going to run a little later this year, due to the fact that it's changing hands and things need to be settled before they can get started. There have already been a couple snags, but sit tight, please. They're still going to run. Maybe I should bold that.
They're still going to run.
Stop PMing me about them.
They Are Still Going to Run.
Just.....let her get on with it.
The reason why they're so late is this: I was going to run through a few things with Pesty -- mainly how the awards and website work -- but I never got around to doing it . I've been pre-occupied with things of greater priority.
But just because there are no awards now, it doesn't mean you can stop making games. I encourage each person to keep trying their best, making game after game, each time making a better game than the previous one.
And with this, I wish good luck to you all.
Quote from: Kinoko on Sun 30/01/2005 12:12:41
It's the end of January and I still haven't heard anything about the AGS Awards... are they still happening. Shouldn't nominations have happened by now? I'm all a-confuzzled. If I'm wrong, sorry, I'm only going off when they happened last year.
+1
I really feel impatient about it :(
By the way, the categories won't change this year, yeah?
To answer everyone's current and future questions:
I don't know.
That's the best response I can give (and I'm guessing it's likewise for Pesty), so you'll have to deal with that no matter how impatient you get.
DG the old sage sez:
(http://www.nolore.com/dgoracle.jpg)
lol, I like the sage.
Well, you can only pass the toch to somebody else, DG, at least for this year...
Netmonkey
The torch, it is passed
Read VWG's post
Become enlightened.
(it didn't start out as a haiku, but it became one.)
Holy crap, people, relax! I'm working on it! It's not the easiest thing in the world to make a list of every demo and game released in the past year and it takes time. Read VWG's quote of my post and DG's post a couple more times until it sinks in that THE AGS AWARDS WILL HAPPEN A LITTLE BIT LATER THAN EXPECTED BECAUSE OF THE CHANGING OF HANDS. I AM WORKING ON IT. EVERYTHING IS FINE.
Thank you.
So, does that mean that the awards sre still gonna happen?
(yes, I do have a deathwish)
Pesty, I see you stressed... If you really are in a hurry, I renounce to put all the games I've made this year into the list of nominates.
Quote from: Farlander on Sun 30/01/2005 21:09:43
Pesty, I see you stressed... If you really are in a hurry, I renounce to put all the games I've made this year into the list of nominates.
I'm not stressed, I'm just sick of these sort of posts (no offense meant to anyone who has contacted me or posted about it, but there're just so many of you who have said something). It's like people don't realize I'm doing this in my limited free time. Is it really that awful to have the awards happen a month late? Seriously, it's not a friggin' cure for cancer, for goodness sake. All I ask is for people to practice patience, not to remove their games from the nominees.
I think passing this off to Pesty was a bad idea...
DG, you should do it again..
I mean, a woman can't handle this kind of stress. As you can see.
^_^ I was kidding, I haven't relased any game this year ^_^ (Nor the previous)
So who's doing teh awards this year? And why so late? I'm gettng impatient and wish death upon the person on whose shoulders the responsibilities lie.
j/k of course
I may have misread Pestys post but I'm pretty sure she said that she has found the cure for Cancer! Thats pretty cool - but way off topic.
If I'm this way before the awards start, just think how I'll be if I catch anyone cheating on the voting.
I SO wanna see that.
I SO wanna do that.
Eeeeer... wait a second........
After all, we all learned a lesson from our mistakes, like passing some important tasks to a legendary frictional peron who never exists.
Okay, I honestly had no idea nobody had even mentioned this, which is precisely why I started this topic. I was thinking to myself, "Don't the AGS Awards happen at the end of January? And not a single person has mentioned them besides as a joke in that Oscars thread". I had heard -nothing-, so I'm sorry if I came across as pestering, or added to the pestering.
Secondly, although I totally respect your right to whinge about the pestering and to get annoyed (seriously, go for it), I can only say that maybe if there had been some sort of thread or decent announcement as to the nature of the delay earlier, maybe people wouldn't be pestering.
Now, I'm going to post this without doing a search at all, fully accepting the risk of making an ass of myself here if there is a thread of this nature around.
QuoteSecondly, although I totally respect your right to whinge about the pestering and to get annoyed (seriously, go for it), I can only say that maybe if there had been some sort of thread or decent announcement as to the nature of the delay earlier, maybe people wouldn't be pestering.
Now, I'm going to post this without doing a search at all, fully accepting the risk of making an ass of myself here if there is a thread of this nature around.
http://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/yabb/index.php?topic=18048.0
There's a line I mentioned in that post (and this applies to everyone): "Guys, please don't bombard Pesty with suggestions already. No money prizes and no category changes at the moment. First, Pesty has to get a feel for the awards. Let her run the awards the way she wants to this year and save your suggestions for later."
The same goes for asking her when the awards will be, or any other Awards-related questions. The answer is the same: no idea, hopefully sooner than later. I hope everyone respects her privacy and remains patient while she takes hold of the reins.
Quote from: Kinoko on Tue 01/02/2005 12:21:15
Okay, I honestly had no idea nobody had even mentioned this, which is precisely why I started this topic. I was thinking to myself, "Don't the AGS Awards happen at the end of January? And not a single person has mentioned them besides as a joke in that Oscars thread". I had heard -nothing-, so I'm sorry if I came across as pestering, or added to the pestering.
Secondly, although I totally respect your right to whinge about the pestering and to get annoyed (seriously, go for it), I can only say that maybe if there had been some sort of thread or decent announcement as to the nature of the delay earlier, maybe people wouldn't be pestering.
Now, I'm going to post this without doing a search at all, fully accepting the risk of making an ass of myself here if there is a thread of this nature around.
Please don't take my rant personally, Kinoko. Like I said, no offense to anyone who contacted me or asked about it in a thread. I just chose to use your thread with the hope that this time everyone would see my post. I've gotten so many people asking me 'where are the ags awards?' that it was just a matter of time that I was going to go kablewie.