In this thread, we will follow the AGS Awards and report the winners as they are announced, for all poor folk who couldn't be on IRC today. I will update this post regulary, so be sure to refresh open.
Here is a list of categories:
Best Game Created with AGS for 2003
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· The Adventures of Fatman
· Apprentice
· Bestowers of Eternity
· The Uncertainty Machine
Winner: 5 Days A Stranger
Best Gameplay in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· Apprentice
· Conspiracy of Songo
· Grr! Bearly Sane
· The Uncertainty Machine
Winner: 5 Days A Stranger
Best Story in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· Apprentice
· Bestowers of Eternity
· Conspiracy of Songo
· The Uncertainty Machine
Winner: Bestowers of Eternity
Best Dialogue Scripting in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· Apprentice
· Bestowers of Eternity
· Grr! Bearly Sane
· The Uncertainty Machine
Winner: 5 Days a Stranger
Best Puzzles in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· Apprentice
· Conspiracy of Songo
· Grr! Bearly Sane
· The Uncertainty Machine
Winner: 5 Days a Stranger
Best Player Character in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· "Trilby" from 5 Days a Stranger
· "Fatman" from The Adventures of Fatman
· "Pib" from Apprentice
· "Dan" from Grr! Bearly Sane
· "Rosa" from Bestowers of Eternity
Winner: "Fatman" from The Adventures of Fatman
Best Supporting Character in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· "Toxicman" from The Adventures of Fatman
· "The Master" from Apprentice
· "The Highway Woman" from Apprentice
· "Joey" from Bestowers of Eternity
· "Chokey The Magical Seagull" from Grr! Bearly Sane
Winner: "Joey" from Bestowers of Eternity
Best Room Art in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· Apprentice
· Grr! Bearly Sane
· Spellbound: A Clive Mandrake Adventure
· The Uncertainty Machine
Winner: Apprentice
Best Character Art in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· The Adventures of Fatman
· Apprentice
· Grr! Bearly Sane
· The Uncertainty Machine
Winner: Apprentice
Best Animation in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· Apprentice
· Flashbax
· Grr! Bearly Sane
· Spellbound: A Clive Mandrake Adventure
Winner: Apprentice
Best Scripting in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days A Stranger
· Apprentice
· Bestowers of Eternity
· Grr! Bearly Sane
· The Uncertainty Machine
Winner: 5 Days a Stranger
Best Sound Effects in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· 5 Days a Stranger
· The Adventures of Fatman
· Apprentice
Winner: The Adventures of Fatman
Best Music in an AGS Game
Nominations:
· The Adventures of Fatman
· Apprentice
· Who Wants To Live Forever?
Winner: Apprentice
Best AGS Documentation
Nominations:
· The Adventures of Fatman
· Grr! Bearly Sane
· Spellbound: A Clive Mandrake Adventure
Winner: Spellbound: A Clive Mandrake Adventure
Best Utility/Application
Nominations:
· Snow Plug-in
· Credits Plug-in
· TCP/IP Plug-in
Winner: Snow Plug-in
Best Demo created in AGS
Nominations:
· By The Sword: Conspiracy New Demo
· Byzantine
· The Case
· Jon Stickman
· RON: Time Out
Winner: Byzantine
Best Non-Adventure Games created in AGS
Nominations:
· AGS Mittens Shooter Game
· Vegetable Patch Extreem Turbo 1
· Vegetable Patch Extreem Turbo 2
Winner: AGS Mittens Shooter
The P3N1S Award (Booby Prize)
Nominations:
· FLASHBAX
· RON: Mika's Surreal Dream 2
· Smokin' Weed
Winner: Smokin' Weed
The Lifetime Achievement Award
Winner: Chris Jones
Summary[/u]
Yahtzee's 5 Days a Straner is the big winner of today, with 5 awards. Apprentice follows it, with 4. Bestowers of Eternity and The Adventures of Fatman finish with 2 both. The big loser of today is The Uncertainty Machine, which sadly suffered due to its early release.
MINUTE BY MINUTE:[/u]
* Five minutes to go!
* It has begun!!!
* DGMacphee will present the Best Supporting Character award.
* It's Joey, from Bestowers of Eternity!
* <_Joey_> Thanks everybody!
* Ghormak presents the award for Best Puzzles.
* It's 5 Days a Stranger!!!!
* But Yahtzee isn't there!
* LGM will present the award for Best Animation.
* Apprentice nails it!
* DGMacphee shows the first symptoms of insomnia.
* ...And presents the awards for best demo.
* Byzantine it is!!!!!!!! Go DarkStalkey!
* DarkStalkey thanks Pessi, Scotch, Eric and Grundislav.
* Alky to present Best Dialogue.
* Yahtzee again! 5 Days a Stranger!!
* Mills will present the award for... he hasn't told us yet. He does pimp Ace Quest, though.
* It's a hostage situation! * MillsJROSS pulls out a gun <MillsJROSS> Nobody move! <MillsJROSS> Ace Quest stands as an symbol of greatness and here it lies unnominated!
* It's Best Documentation.
* Spellbound wins it! Mills is finally off the stage... maybe.
* Unfortunately, Eric isn't there.
* The Plug-In award is next. Presnted by DGMacphee.
* It's the Snow Plug-In!
* <Scorpiorus> thanks people <Scorpiorus> I promise to make it better
* I present the award for Best Room Art!
* And the winner is... Apprentice!!!!
* Fuzzpilz will present the award for Best Story.
* Despite being incomplete, Bestowers of Eternity wins it.
* <DaveGilbert> Thanks everyone!
* Def is on the stage. <def^> DisplaySpeech (DEF,"Scripting is where the game comes together, and is a crucial part of the game-making process");
* 5 Days a Stranger again!!!!
* The P3n1sh award! <DGMacphee> Remember this category is just a bit of fun
* Smokin' Weed justifies its name!!!!
* The next presenter is Best Demo winner - DarkStalkey.
* The award is the one for Best Character Art.
* Apprentice again!
* DGMacphee will present the Best Non-Adventure Game Award.
* Squinky snatched the surprise winner with AGS Mittens Shooter.
* <DGMacphee> And no here's Esseb to bring you a public service announcement on how to stalk CJ
* Best Sound Effects is next.
* It's the fist award for The Adventures of Fatman!
<Ionias> WooHoo, thanks m0ds couldn't have done this without you.
* DGMacphee will present the Lifetime Acheivement Award, or as he calls it: "The Lifetime Schievement award".
* The man and the legend, Chris Jones!!!!!!! You deserve it, man!
* <CJ> I just want to thank my doctor, my dentist, and all the judges!
* Magintz, the final presenter for the evening arrives! The Music award is next.
* Apprentice takes the lead with its fourth award of the evening!!!!
* DGMacphee will present the award for Best Player Character.
* It's the second award for Ionias! Fatman!!!
* Best Gameplay is next!
* 5 Days a Stranger again!
* Best Game, Ladies and Gentlemen!!!
* It's 5 Days A Stranger!!!!!!!! Yahtzee wins Best Game!!!!!!!!!
Just finished work, now I'm at moms work, and I can't load mirc on her computer, but I AM WISHING I WAS THERE! :(
Too bad Yuf, the awards are hilarious!
Quote from: Indiana Psychonaut on Sat 31/01/2004 18:28:33
Just finished work, now I'm at moms work, and I can't load mirc on her computer, but I AM WISHING I WAS THERE! :(
Well with my live report, it's just like being there! In fact, you don't have to suffer from that dreadful smell!
Great show!
Congradulations to all the winners and nominees, and thanks to everyone that voted for the Byzantine demo.
And kudos to Deegee for putting so much time and effort into running this for the third year.
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Great job DG, and congrats to all winners. It was really fun to watch and I was really excited when it came time to announce the best music... :P
Yeah, that was a complete surprise to me. I thouhgt, the major "enemy" is Fatman - apprentice hardly has any music in it, but then POW!
I'd like to second DarkStalkey in congratulating all the winners and nominees, and in fact everyone who's made a game this year. Let's not forget, making games is why we're all here :)
And again, DGMacphee has done a terrific job in organising the awards for another year (not to mention staying up until 5:30am to present them), so thanks are in order all round.
Finally, I'm flattered to have been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award, so thankyou very much. The next version of AGS may not have the MakeMyGame feature, but I'll do my darnedest to add a MakeMyTea command.
Woo, that was fun. I dont think there was enough time for applause though. People cant type anything interesting or significant in such a short time between announcing the winner and the 2 secons of applausee :P.
Too bad many people missed their winning, but anyway, it was really fun and excited, and now I'm exhausted :P. Too bad Grr and TUM didnt win anything :)
Also, conratulations to everyone, to CJ, and thanks to DG for organising! :)
The problem was with the applausing, it was just spam pretty much. i think i saw one good line, which was m0ds plug ;)
Aye, congrats to all of you! :)
Bah, I woke up an hour and a half too late. Congrats to all the winners though!
I couldn't stay up for it, but congrats to all the winners.
The results seem to be what I expected and probably pretty close to how I voted, It was good to see 5 Days get the top awards, it was by far the best game of the ones running, well done Yahtzee if you are around.
I guess former Tierra (AGDI) gave everyone a year off before cleaning up with Q4GII next year
Holy crap on a stick....are you telling me I won an award? An Award? bah!
I think I'm going to have a seizure...
Captain Mostly is going to kill me....but thanks to everyone who voted for my game, you all rock more than that hot chick on that old ac-dc video...You know the one...
And congrats to everyone, you all rock and make this place rock...
woo-hoo
Once again, a stellar job DGMacphee. I still can't believe you were up at 4am doing this. Kudos to you.
And thanks to everyone who voted for BoE! I seriously wasn't expecting to win anything. Joey hardly appeared in the game, and the game isn't even really "complete" per se, and yet it won for "Best Supporting Character" and "Best Story." I am touched. Thanks everyone. You made my day. :-D
Joey's pretty happy too. Check it out.
(http://www.davelgil.com/partyjoey.gif)
Quote from: Squinky on Sun 01/02/2004 05:53:42
Captain Mostly is going to kill me....but thanks to everyone who voted for my game, you all rock more than that hot chick on that old ac-dc video...You know the one...
I was expecting VPET 2 to win cause both you guys were working on it.
However, I'll just say that the difference in votes between VPET 2 and Mittens Shooter was very slim.
And thank you all for coming -- It was fun.
What dissapointed me was the lifetime achievement award and it's shameless pandering to political correctness gone mad. This cheap sop to the English minority group just because they lost an empire [and many other things] is ludicrous and the PC thugs must be stopped.
But... you were one of the judges...
Oh man, while you bastards were living it up and eating fine caviar at the awards ceremony, I spent the day at work feeling sick and then when I got to my moms work after she picked me up, I got sick, all night, really bad, and now I'm home and still sick, and I can't eat, and I feel woozy, and my head hurts and I just learned that they stopped showing Young Indy on TV where I live, on the first sunday that I have ever gotten to stay home and watch young indy, and now I feel even crappier and I think I'm gonna vomit onto the keboajsdtojpp;aaaggghhhhhrrg
squinky:
YOU'RE going to have a seizure?!?!?!?!
But seriously, well done. This just means I'll have to work EVEN HARDER for next year!
Congrats to all the winners, and also to all those who were nominated, and to everyone who entered their game :)
Congratulations to the winners. I submitted various pieces of Awards-related trivia to MobyGames (and will submit stuff for Fatman and Apprentice once they're approved).
Congratulations to all of you.
I'm sorry I didn't vote, or attend the ceremony... There's always next year!
* SullyHungover has joined #ags
<SullyHungover> Holy crap! The awards are tonight... and I'm hungover like the slob I am...
:P
*Sully blushes.
*Sully chuckles.
<Sully> Hey, my bad!
;)
I think it's hilarious that CJ had to wait so many years to get this "life-time achievement" award.
Judges back in 2001: "Nah, CJ hasn't done efforts enough to win that award. Let him fix bugs for yet some years!"
hey, where are the awards located and are they televised on some channel?
just thought I might as wel ask
They are located in the heart of Hollywood and were aired LIVE on CNN.
Hahahahhahahahhaahhahahaahahah! ;D
Sorry, I just had to do it. It's an underground community mate. They were 'aired' live on an IRC chat channel.
hahahaha
im so stupid..
Well, maybe next year. :)