The 2007 AGS Awards: DOWNLOAD THE CEREMONY!

[SSH]

Get the AGS Awards Ceremony download!

Find out who won!

If you're boring, or can't run the game, first try changing the game to use a window ratehr than full-screen, then try changing between DirectX5 and DirectX9 drivers. Then finally, try the list of winners on the Wiki

[Radiant]

Speaking of which, what happened to that other Game of the Year award we had here a month ago?

Are the categories the same as last year? If so, are we finally going to get clarification of what "best scripting" means? Because for some people, it refers to the plot, and for others, it refers to the programming.

Rather than limiting the "number of nominations across different categories", I think it may be better to simply remove games from a category if they are obviously unfitting (e.g. a "best manual" nomination for a game that doesn't have a manual, stuff like that). Otherwise, it may turn out that many people don't nominate game X for category Y because they all think that "surely somebody else will put it in category Y", and that's just weird.

[SSH]

Are the categories the same as last year? If so, are we finally going to get clarification of what "best scripting" means? Because for some people, it refers to the plot, and for others, it refers to the programming.

Err, it was called "Best Programming" last year...

Rather than limiting the "number of nominations across different categories", I think it may be better to simply remove games from a category if they are obviously unfitting (e.g. a "best manual" nomination for a game that doesn't have a manual, stuff like that). Otherwise, it may turn out that many people don't nominate game X for category Y because they all think that "surely somebody else will put it in category Y", and that's just weird.

Are you volunteering to trawl through every release of this year and compile a list of those that have and don't have either manuals or in-game documentation? 

[Radiant]

Err, it was called "Best Programming" last year...

That's interesting, because on this site it says "scripting"

Are you volunteering to trawl through every release of this year and compile a list of those that have and don't have either manuals or in-game documentation? 

I'm suggesting that that won't actually be necessary. You only have to verify the top five games of the category, and take the sixth instead if one of those five doesn't have one.

[SSH]

Err, it was called "Best Programming" last year...

That's interesting, because on this site it says "scripting"

And on this and this site it says Programming

I blame AGA.

I'm suggesting that that won't actually be necessary. You only have to verify the top five games of the category, and take the sixth instead if one of those five doesn't have one.

Has it ever happened that the top ones for a category have not actually been eligible?

[blueskirt]

Awwww... The AGS awards are already being discussed and I have yet to play half of the games released this year.

When the official AGS awards website will be updated next month, to show the winners and nominees, would it be possible to show the 5 runners up who didn't manage to make it to the nominations, additionally to the awards winners and nominees for each categories? I generally trust the AGS awards to tell if I missed some great games in the previous year but last year I felt that only showing the winner and 5 nominees wasn't enough when the number of quality games increases every years.

[SSH]

You may find that such games end up as pick of the month: e.g. The Farm, Reactor 09, Sydney Finds Employment....

[Radiant]

Has it ever happened that the top ones for a category have not actually been eligible?

Hm, come to think of it, the only one that comes to mind (and even that one is iffy) is any remake getting nominated for a "best story"-type of award, since arguably they didn't write the story. But, like I said, that's iffy. Oh yeah, and last year's debate over the p3n1s award, but let's not go there again 

I suppose it's not necessary to restrict how people vote, then.

[Stupot]

Scripting, to me, means programming/coding.
If your talking about plot then call it 'best writing'.

Is there a prize for "Most Anticipated Game Not Yet Made"?
If not there should be.

[cough]marionette[/cough]

[LimpingFish]

I think Best Programming is the clearest of the two.

I guess Best Scripting could be confused with Best Writing, so best to avoid it.

Best!

I also think Best Sound and Best Voice Acting should be seperate awards, as the Best Sound nominations usually just end up being a list of games that happen to have voice acting, regardless of any actual funky sound effects/editing involved.

Other that that, the awards are solid.

[SSH]

Perhaps this should be stickied?

[HellBeast]

i would like to post my game but i need some teammates to help me

[Akatosh]

Then why not post here?

Oh, and how do you think are my chances to beat Art of Theft with _Access (or finishing _Access 2 in time)? "Minimal" or "non-existant"? 

Hell, probably I'll even be shameless enough to polish and expand the game AGAIN and release it as 1.3 or 1.4 or something. Sounds a lot like something I'd do.

[m0ds]

When does the voting website & nomination stuff become live?

[SSH]

1st January, I hope.

[Dualnames]

Well then that makes voting AGS awards the first thing I want to do next year..

[FSi++]

Then why not post here?

Oh, and how do you think are my chances to beat Art of Theft with _Access (or finishing _Access 2 in time)? "Minimal" or "non-existant"? 

Hell, probably I'll even be shameless enough to polish and expand the game AGAIN and release it as 1.3 or 1.4 or something. Sounds a lot like something I'd do.

No chances against Plan10 Deluxe

[AGA]

I blame AGA.

I blame DGMacphee.

[vertigoaddict]

--I also think Best Sound and Best Voice Acting should be seperate awards, as the Best Sound nominations usually just end up being a list of games that happen to have voice acting, regardless of any actual funky sound effects/editing involved.

Other that that, the awards are solid.

But 'Best sound' sounds like it would include music too. There should be:

*Best use of Sound Effects (There is an actual movie award for this)

*Best Voice acting/ actor

*Best music/ use of music (this could be separate as, even if you have good music, it won't sound right if you don't know where to place them)

[GarageGothic]

The reason that "Best voice acting" hasn't been a separate category before is that there simply were too few games with voice acting - and to be honest there still aren't that many. I think "Best voice actor" might work better, though I'm pretty sure half the nominess will be people from Blackwell Unbound.