🏆 AGS Awards 2024 - Awards are over!

Kastchey · Thu 27/02/2025 22:35:04

Only a week and a half left to vote!

Also a reminder - if you are interested to join the ceremony, please consider voting for your preferred date here if you haven't yet:

https://xoyondo.com/dp/8za2kpngh5ecien

cat · Wed 05/03/2025 19:10:38

*bump*

Voting will end on Sunday!

Kastchey · Wed 05/03/2025 21:33:52

We are looking for a streamer (ideally who can also record the ceremony), and as many presenters as we can get. Please let me know here or via PM if you can help

Also, we will decide on the ceremony date soon, so remember about the doodle if you haven't voted for a date yet.

When picking your preferred day, keep in mind that the ceremony starts at 20:00 London time (GMT) and will take between 90 and 120 minutes. You can join or leave any time you like, the client is open for the entire duration of the ceremony.

Here is the approximate schedule (and I emphasize 'approximate'):

Category	Time (GMT)
Start	20:10
Best Demo	20:12
Best Programming	20:18
Best Innovation	20:24
Best Visuals	20:30
Best Audio	20:36
Best Writing	20:42
Best Gameplay	20:48
Best Character	20:54
Maggies	21:00
Best Short Game	21:12
Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGS	21:18
Lifetime achievement	21:24
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS	21:30
Best Game Created with AGS	21:42
End	21:46

cat · Fri 07/03/2025 08:20:30

Ceremony date confirmed! The ceremony will happen on

Sunday, 23 March at 20:00 London time

It's an online-only event. You can join via a dedicated AGS client that will be available shortly before the ceremony or the IRC client of your choice.

Looking forward to seeing you all there!

cat · Sat 08/03/2025 20:04:47

Voting will end tomorrow at 23:59 GMT!

cat · Sun 09/03/2025 18:43:48

Last few hours!

Vote now https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/play/ags-awards/

Postmodern Adventures · Sun 09/03/2025 20:13:09

Quote from: Kastchey on Wed 05/03/2025 21:33:52We are looking for a streamer (ideally who can also record the ceremony), and as many presenters as we can get. Please let me know here or via PM if you can help

I know that Rojo Aventuras will broadcast the ceremony and will comment on it. But in Spanish.

cat · Mon 10/03/2025 08:54:47

Voting is over - Ceremony on Sunday, 23 March 2025 at 20:00 London time!

heltenjon · Mon 10/03/2025 11:29:37

Quote from: cat on Mon 10/03/2025 08:54:47Voting is over - ~~Ceremony on Sunday 9 March 2025~~!

DeLorean time.

RootBound · Mon 10/03/2025 11:50:03

Even the thread name says the 9th too.

cat · Mon 10/03/2025 12:16:02

🤯🙈
Thanks for pointing it out!

cat · Tue 18/03/2025 08:20:23

The ceremony is already this Sunday! In the meantime, there are still two days left to vote for MAGGIES: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/adventure-related-talk-chat/maggies-2024-play-the-games/

edmundito · Wed 19/03/2025 12:12:06

I created an event in the AGS Community Discord to join the General voice channel and watch/talk during the awards ceremony. For anyone interested, you can click "I'm interested" in the calendar event here:

https://discord.gg/fqzPJEeN?event=1350462034738942062

cat · Thu 20/03/2025 15:49:13

Is there anyone who wants to present a category at the ceremony?

In case you do, please reply in this thread or contact @Kastchey via PM.

Kastchey · Fri 21/03/2025 07:12:53

This year's client is open for testing! When you have a moment, download the below version, give it a try, click around, see if you can get anything to break. Linux build might need a fix, so I can reupload the Linux version later if someone needs it for testing. Let me know if you want to test with Mac, too.

Please do not use this client for the actual ceremony! There will be a new link provided on Sunday.

https://we.tl/t-a067mCUrbR

cat · Fri 21/03/2025 09:00:44

A bit of information for people new to the party:

We are going to have an online ceremony where the winners of the AGS Awards are revealed (a bit like the Oscars, we even have silly jokes and costume changes!)
To get the full experience, there is an interactive AGS client that will show a stage with presenters and screenshots of the games and you can be part of the audience (and may be called to stage if your game wins an award). If you can't or don't want to run this client, there is always the option of joining via IRC using the client of your choice. I will post more information about this on Sunday.
And if you can't really make it at all, you can read the results here in this thread after the ceremony is over. Usually there is also someone recording the ceremony.

Rik_Vargard · Fri 21/03/2025 15:19:34

I did appear on the stage when I entered.
All seems OK to me

I also remember being kicked out several times, last year. And then the .exe file disappearing.
So I had to download again, and the same thing happened.
For what I remember, it was Windows that blocked and deleted the file.
Is there a way to prevent it from happening this year? Like, having Windows accept the .exe file or something?

Kastchey · Fri 21/03/2025 17:49:29

What I can suggest is whitelisting the file in advance in your antivirus program, or Windows Defender if you run it, so that it doesn't quarantine the file. I can make the client available for download on Saturday evening or Sunday morning, so that you have the time to set things up.

Laura Hunt · Sat 22/03/2025 12:51:13

I downloaded the test client for Windows and was able to connect without issues and click around the stage and faff about with the settings. No crashes or weird bugs for me (except that I appeared on the stage for some reason instead of down in the hall/dancefloor).

One thing I noticed is that the `music_credits.txt` file doesn't seem to have been updated in several years. Since 2021, to be precise. Not sure if it even makes sense to have a list of the tracks from previous years, but the ones for this year should definitely be there. (Unless this has already been take care of for the "real" client, in which case forget I said anything!)

Yanek_Crispbread · Sat 22/03/2025 15:02:15

The client works fine for me!