Welcome to the AGS Awards, the event where the you, the player, choose the best games of the year!
Step # 0 - play them games!
You have some time to play games made in 2018. Do it!
Step # 1 - nomination time!
Select games you deem worthy in each category!
Step # 2 - vote, folks!
Pick from the nominees and we get a winner!Step # 3 - party!Big party to celebrate the winners!
Results!Thanks to everyone who played the nominated games and voted.
Here are the winners:
Best Game Created with AGSUnavowed
Best Freeware Game Created with AGSThe Knobbly Crook
Best Puzzles Lamplight City/The Clockwork Labyrinth
Best Short GameTales From The Outer Zone: Cyborg Seppuku
Best WritingLamplight City
Best Background ArtThe Knobbly Crook
Best GameplayUnavowed
Best Character ArtDetective Gallo
Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGSThe Rat Pack (MAGS version)
Best Music & SoundFootball Game
Best CharacterMiles Fordham from Lamplight City
Best ProgrammingUnavowed
Best AnimationLamplight City
Best Voice WorkUnavowed
Best DemoEcho in the Clouds (Demo)
Best InnovationSnarky - For his numerous additions to the AGS open source ecosystem including the new Awards Ceremony client and modules
Lifetime AchievementStupot - For his efforts as a MAGS host
The nominated games:
Best Game Created with AGS
Detective Gallo
Football Game
Lamplight City
The Knobbly Crook
Unavowed
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Adventure: Welcome to the Genre
Commissar's Contrapasso
Tales From The Outer Zone: Cyborg Seppuku
The Knobbly Crook
The Shaft
Best Writing
Commissar's Contrapasso
Football Game
Lamplight City
The Knobbly Crook
Unavowed
Best Character
Detective Gallo from Detective Gallo
Miles Fordham from Lamplight City
The Commissar from Commissar's Contrapasso
Best Gameplay
Commissar's Contrapasso
Football Game
Lamplight City
Unavowed
Wilfred:2088 [MAGS Feb. 2018]
Best Puzzles
Lamplight City
Tales From The Outer Zone: Cyborg Seppuku
The Clockwork Labyrinth
Unavowed
Wilfred:2088 [MAGS Feb. 2018]
Best Background Art
Commissar's Contrapasso
Detective Gallo
Lamplight City
The Knobbly Crook
Unavowed
Best Character Art
Commissar's Contrapasso
Detective Gallo
Lamplight City
The Knobbly Crook
Unavowed
Best Animation
Commissar's Contrapasso
Detective Gallo
Lamplight City
The Knobbly Crook
Unavowed
Best Music & Sound
Detective Gallo
Football Game
Lamplight City
The Knobbly Crook
Unavowed
Best Voice Work
Detective Gallo
Lamplight City
The Knobbly Crook
Unavowed
Wilfred:2088 [MAGS Feb. 2018]
Best Demo
Echo in the Clouds (Demo)
Subterra (DEMO)
Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGS
BlindSweeper
Lab Rat Maze!
Racist [MAGS]
Space Tunneler Deluxe
The Rat Pack (MAGS version)
Best Short Game
Don't Ice Your Cool
Tales From The Outer Zone: Cyborg Seppuku
Tales From The Outer Zone: The Goat Crone
The Shaft
Wilfred:2088 [MAGS Feb. 2018]
Best Programming
Lamplight City
Racist [MAGS]
Unavowed
How do the AGS Awards work?(This is information mostly for new members, same procedure as every year)
Every year, the AGS community embarks on a quest to find the best games made in the last year. All games are eligible, that were added to the
AGS Database in the year 2018. There is a
For Your Consideration thread where authors can promote their games and players get a good overview what might be worth playing.
The awards are a two-step process: First there is a nomination phase where all community members can nominate the eligible games in several categories (
it will be the same categories as last year). The top five games of each category make it to the voting (as long as they've received at least five nominations). Again, all members of the community can vote on their favourite games.
The final result is then announced in a live ceremony that can be joined either with a special client or any regular irc client.
Party like it's 1990 in this thread!