Topic: AGS Awards 2018 - For Your Consideration

[cat]

Have you made a game in 2018 and want it to compete in the AGS Awards 2018? This is the topic where to showcase it!
Post a database link, a brief description and some pictures (thumbnails preferred, here is an excellent FYC post from last year).

Do not be shy, by posting your game you are helping the players who will take some of their time to play/nominate/vote!

Usual remarks:

• please include a link to your games page on the AGS games database
• if you think a game deserves mention but the author isn't around, post a FYC for them! The more worthy games we get here, the better it is for everyone!
• this thread is for FYC posts only, if you want to discuss the awards go here!

Post your games here before nominations start. The earlier you post, the more time people have to play your game!

[Bavolis]

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

The Knobbly Crook - The Complete Misadventure
A ridiculous journey into a fantasy world where Rock, Paper, and Scissors are forces of nature.




As we join our woefully inept hero, O'Sirus, he finds himself on trial for all the crimes you have not yet committed together. Retell his absurd story as his journey begins, finding himself a stowaway on a ship that is half horse, half boat, and half whale. Every moment that passes takes you further from your goal--the Knobbly Crook. It's up to you to torment the Drafthorse's unsuspecting crew in an attempt to alter their course. Once you reach moist land, the real adventure begins... and continues for rather a long while... and concludes after quite a bit of shameful nonsense.

DOWNLOAD
AGS Database - https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2310/
GameJolt - https://gamejolt.com/games/TheKnobblyCrook/59177
Itch - https://gnarledscar.itch.io/the-knobbly-crook
Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/378300/The_Knobbly_Crook/

POSSIBLE AWARDS
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Puzzles
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Background Art
Best Character Art

SCREENSHOTS

[CaptainD]

For the non-adventure game category I would like to put forward Space Tunneler Deluxe.  This is an updated version of an old MAGS game I made with several key enhancements, including autosave and high score table.  It's a retro arcade game where you have to, you know, avoid crashing into walls.  With the way the controls work however, you need to employ strategy as well as have decent reflexes.

Download Link

[Akril15]

Adventure: Welcome to the Genre

Thalia James' job in the Computer Game Maintenance Squad is seldom an easy one. After one of her assignments nearly ends in disaster, she is asked to track down five characters believed to be responsible for a series of criminal activities throughout the 2D adventure genre. With that to grapple with as well the mysterious condition from her past that has inexplicably resurfaced, the first annual Adventure Game Awards and the grand opening of something called the Mega-Game, this adventure is bound to be anything but mundane.






Adventure: Welcome to the Genre is the sequel to Adventure: The Inside Job and Adventure: All in the Game, and is the third and final* installment in the Thalia James trilogy. Like the previous installments, expect cameos from various characters, places and items from the adventure game genre as you journey through a number of fantastic, puzzle-filled locales, all the while attempting to save the genre from complete destruction. (Again.)

Possible Awards:
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Animation
Best Character Art
Best Background Art

Trailer:

AGS Database Page

Direct Download


*At least for the foreseeable future. (Also, sorry I got a bit carried away with the text effects in this post. )

[Jack]

Racist

Racist is an action game for MAGS January that simulates momentum, thrust and collision to create a fast kinetic racer. Sprites pre-rendered from multiple angles are used to create a fake 3D, 2.5D environment.

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Suggestions:
Best Programming
Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS

Database page

Fists of Murder

Created for MAGS August, Fists of Murder is an action-adventure mix that includes a simple fighting system. Use the health and energy bars to beat up to three opponents in sequence.



Suggestions:
Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS
Best Background Art
Best Programming

Database page

[Cassiebsg]

Ice in the Air
Made in 3 days for MAGS July. Play length: about 5 minutes... maybe a bit more if you take your time.

Adventure P&C game:
Charly has just been told he needs to play outside as long as the weather is good. However what he wants is to go back in and play on his computer.

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Suggestions:
Best Short Game
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Animation
Best Music and Sound
Best Background Art
Best Character Art

Database page


Lab Rat Maze!
Made for MAGS Juny in collaboration with Gurok.

Point & Click puzzle solving:
Ever wondered what a lab rat feels when someone places him into a maze? Well, now you no longer have to wonder! Experience it for your self! Feel frustrated by the unfair tasks, extreme level of memory and other skills requirements that evil humans put poor rats through!

Two levels of difficulty! (Only difference is how you experience the maze, not how hard puzzles are.)

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Suggestions:
Best Programming
Best Short Game
Best Puzzles
Best Animation
Best Music and Sound

Database page

[Blondbraid]

Commissar's Contrapasso

This is the story of an arrogant Soviet commissar, whom after an accusation of cowardice personally takes the lead of a charge that goes horribly wrong and leaves him trapped behind enemy lines.
What follows is an adventure and a story about wits, courage, pride and redemption and the commissar will need your help to survive!

The game has been reviewed at Plug/Play and Tasta.

Suggestions
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Puzzles
Best Writing
Best Character (The Commissar)
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation

Database page

GameJolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/commissars-contrapasso/291181

Itch.io: https://blondbraid.itch.io/commissars-contrapasso

[shaun9991]

FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION

FOOTBALL GAME

You can get the game here:
AGS Database: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2240/
itch.io: https://shaun9991.itch.io/footballgame
Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/654550/Football_Game/
Game Jolt: https://gamejolt.com/games/FootballGame/322132




Story
East Bend, Purchase County. 1987.
You are Tommy, a local high school football hero in the town of East Bend. It's game night for the Purchase County Turbines and your sweetheart is waiting in the bleachers. Join Tommy for a night you won't forget...

Something is amiss...

Features
- A traditional point and click adventure game aesthetic with puzzles and dialogue interactions familiar to the genre.
- A cast of characters including friends, foes, teachers, and a concerned mother.
- A short, twisted narrative with approximately 45 minutes to an hour of game-play, depending on the player.
- Original soundtrack by UK duo JUPITER-C, which is also available on cassette via Ramber Records

“Cryptic and creepy, Football Game is exceptionally well crafted and well worth the price tag to anyone with a love of Lynchian stories and Point-and-Click adventures that try to do something a little different.”
IndieHangover

“If you're a fan of the eighties and you like point and click games, Football Game is definitely something you're going to like!”
Dumee Gamer

“Football Game is an experience best gone into blind, but if you have interest in twisted, Lynchian narratives and have an hour free, you probably won't regret it.”
IndieGames

Suggestions:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Gameplay
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Music & Sound
Best Short Game

Thanks for your consideration

[Slasher]

For consideration

Dr. Chuckles' miniature world of madness. DOWNLOAD Created by Slasher and Mikeg... Synopsis: You are officer Marc Delago. You've been tasked with reopening a cold case leading back to the 80's, involving a string of missing people in the Sleepy Oak area, after new evidence matching the M.O. of the deranged maniac behind the kidnappings came to light. A heavily wounded and psychologically distressed man claiming to be an escaped victim of the kidnapper has provided a compelling statement that could lead you straight to his captor. Will you finally bring justice to the homicidal mad man behind these kidnappings? Are these kidnappings in any way linked to the disappearance of the governor's daughter? What hidden dangers will you encounter along the way? Find out in Dr Chuckles' Miniature World of Madness Possible Awards: Best Short Game. Specs: 1280 X 720 32 Bit color Direct3D 9 hardware acceleration

[cat]

Cornelius Cat in: How the Cat Saved Christmas



Someone was naughty and stole the Christmas decoration! Now it is up to Cornelius and Mortimer to bring it back and save Christmas.
Meet old and new characters, enjoy Dr. Seuss style rhymes and solve festive puzzles in a cotton wool landscape.

Download
AGS Database - https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2316/

Please consider this game for
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Short Game
Best Character (Rhonda Reindeer)
Best Gameplay
Best Programming (walking inventory, sliding, icicle puzzle)

[Grundislav]

For your consideration:

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2292/

The Gateway to Vespuccia, the City of Air and Light, Lamplight City—the thriving port city of New Bretagne is a beacon of progress and industrial advancement in the New World. Yet beneath the promises of a shining 19th-century future, the city rests upon foundations of poverty, class struggle, and crime.

For police detective turned private investigator Miles Fordham, Lamplight City's shadowy corners are just part of the territory. But with his former partner constantly speaking to him from beyond the grave, his grip on sanity is slowly loosening. Can Miles find justice for his clients and track down his partner's killer before his entire world comes apart?

Lamplight City is a detective adventure set in an alternate steampunk-ish "Victorian" past.


Navigate the filth and squalor of Cholmondeley, AKA "The Chum."


Investigate the homes of the fabulously wealthy residents of Lyon.


Explore the borough of Gascogne, inspired by New Orleans's French Quarter.


Search for clues in Worcester, the working class part of town.


Interrogate suspects and witnesses in a closeup view.


The dead hold just as many secrets as the living.


The residents of Lamplight City make their voices heard.

Suggestions:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Gameplay
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Music & Sound
Best Voice Work
Best Programming

Thank you!

[Kastchey]

For your consideration:

THE SHAFT
Download

A polished version of the MAGS July winning entry, it has been praised for its puzzles, art and dark atmosphere.

Synopsis:
Sgt. Reed has been tasked with descending into an abandoned underground facility, activating the power generator and opening the main entrance.
But things did not exactly work as planned, leaving Reed stranded underground with no means of communication, most of the gear lost and very little idea of what went wrong in the first place and, most importantly, what lies at the bottom of the shaft...

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Please kindly consider for:
Best Character (Sgt. Reed)
Best Puzzles
Best Background Art
Best Animation

Download from:
AGS database: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2317/

Thank you!

[Danvzare]

Private Detective

Summary:
Private Detective is a procedurally generated murder mystery game, where you must solve randomly generated crimes by finding leads, questioning suspects, and gathering evidence from the crime scene to compare with samples found in the homes of the suspects. It plays a lot like an adventure game, but with a lot more deduction and a lot less inventory object puzzles.

Please consider this game for:
Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS
Best gameplay
Best programming
Best Background Art
Best Music and Sound

Black Friday

Summary:
Somewhere in Maine, five teenagers decided to spend the night at a farm. To goof off and have fun, as teenagers do. But little do they know that they're being watched by an evil entity intent on doing them harm.

Soon they find themselves being killed off, one by one. Will any of them survive?

Black Friday is a homage to slasher movies in the form of a point and click adventure game.

Please consider this game for:
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Short Game
Best Character (The Scarecrow)
Best Puzzles
Best Writing
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation

[Mandle]

I'll put up my MAGS game "Strawman Bombing Disposal" for a possible entry into Best Puzzles.

The puzzles are pretty hard which is probably why, apart from two people (that I know of) who figured them out, what I got back mostly as feedback was "I pushed the buttons and got blown up and quit."

I designed this game to be quite hard as an alternative to the current trend of "a game is only good if anyone can finish it". There's nothing wrong with games like that, don't get me wrong, but I felt that a real challenge every now and then might be a nice change.

It's the kind of bash-your-head-against-the-puzzles-until-you-get-that-CLICK-moment-and-everything-becomes-clear that a lot of us grew up on. There are hints, if you listen to the evil villain carefully, but the rest is pretty much pure logic plus a bit of perseverance.

Everyone who has completed the game, the two people I mentioned above and some friends that played the game in front of me live at a mate's gaming night, all said that the puzzles were hard but logical and fair once figured out.

The puzzles are all 100% original of my own devising and a lot of thought went into them on my bike rides to and from work.

SO, AS MY ENTRANT FOR BEST PUZZLES:

STRAWMAN  BOMBING  DISPOSAL


You are crossing a Washington D.C. road when a truck pulls away revealing something shocking.

This game is not meant to be easy. Only a very few will probably have the patience to complete it.

The game starts and ends suddenly as I wanted it to feel like you are abruptly thrown into a situation and then right back out of it.

You can click to skip a bunch of diaglog and/or cutscenes by clicking the mouse to cut to the chase, but I would advise you to listen to and watch everything all the way through at least once.

There is no save game function or checkpoints system at this time but once you know how to solve a puzzle it is pretty easy to repeat the solution within a few seconds.

I will be making a Tips And Hints thread of my own for the game so I would appreciate it if noone else does so for now.

Controls: Mouse only + ESC to hard-quit from the game.

DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES TO SAVE WASHINGTON?!

CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD THE GAME

[The Outer Zone]

Hi AGS people

I made my AGS debut in 2018 with the two short games "Cyborg Seppuku" and "The Goat Crone":


CYBORG SEPPUKU

A cyberpunk tale of marriage and selfdestruction.

You're a cyborg and your wife has left you. To find her you must leave "The Structure" - a dystopian city in which you are imprisoned.
The only way of escaping The Structure is to rid yourself of your implants and become a plain-skin.


Play it here:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2282/










The Goat Crone
An occult Christmas tale of family love and dark rituals.

Alma has to prepare the yule ham while her father is out in the forest.
But the nightmarish myth of The Goat Crone haunts her and her baby brother.

Play it here:
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2314/









Award suggestions for both games:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Gameplay
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Music & Sound
Best Short Game
Best Programming

Thank you for your consideration

[Texmurphy78]

DETECTIVE GALLO

Detective Gallo is a point&click comic-noir adventure which is entirely hand-illustrated and hand-animated, whose protagonist is a feathered and grumpy private eye struggling with a very tricky case. The story tells about five exotic plants that have been victims of a serial murder. Thanks to the support of his cactus assistant, it will be up to Gallo to investigate, interrogating bizarre characters e solving puzzles that will put his insight and his patience to the test.



LOOK AT THE GAME
www.detectivegallo.com

TRY THE DEMO
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2164/

TRY THE GAME
AGS Database - https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2322/
Steam - https://store.steampowered.com/app/556060/Detective_Gallo/
GoG - https://www.gog.com/game/detective_gallo

POSSIBLE AWARDS
Best Game created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Music & Sound
Best Voice Work
Best Programming

SCREENSHOTS





Thanks for your consideration 

[selmiak]

What about ECHO IN THE CLOUDS?
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2259/

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Consider it for:
Best Game created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Music & Sound
Best Demo
Best Short Game

and while you are there trying and hopefully liking the game, please consider voting for that game in the MAGGIES.



Other game not yet in this thread that deserve some consideration:



Chronicle Of Innsmouth - Mountains Of Madness
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/index.php?topic=56502.0

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Consider it for:
Best Writing
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Demo




Don't ice your cool
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2268/

x1 x2 x4 x8

Consider it for:
Best Animation
Best Short Game




Wilfred:2088
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2242/

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Consider it for:
Best Gameplay
Best Short Game

[morganw]

It is my fifth full title, this time about a miserable stock broker and an unemployed musician who while desperately trying to swim out of debt find unlikely answers in the local Ku Klux Klan branch, leading them on an absurd and often comedic adventure.

Please consider this game for:

• best writing
• best short game

database entry
itch.io

[Neo_One]

When the director of the famous Galactic Geographic magazine calls you to his office, you can't believe how lucky you are. You have been commissioned to produce a new documentary on the habits of the earthlings, only one of which has been made in the entire history of the planet Coque and dates back 40,000 years.
You have the makings of an extracococcal documentary filmmaker and this is your chance to prove you're the best.
However, things don't usually go as well as you want them to...

DOWNLOAD

AGS Database  https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2280/
Itch  https://jorge-vera.itch.io/yago-the-coquerrestrial
GameJolt  https://gamejolt.com/games/Yago/368824

POSSIBLE AWARDS

Best Game Created with AGS
Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Puzzles
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Character
Best Animation

SCREENSHOTS

[paolo]

For your consideration:



Tracey hates her humdrum job at Insurance International, but it turns out there is more going on there than meets the eye. An unknown organisation is plotting a coup that will have catastrophic global consequences, and unless it can be stopped in time, the world will be brought to its knees...

Game page: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2313/

Special game features include:

• Multiple endings
• Minigames
• References to many classic adventure games
• Easter eggs

Screenshots

A well-appointed apartment


Out on the town


Captured


Out in the open


Another day at the office



Suggestions for nominations:

Best game created with AGS
Best freeware game created with AGS
Best writing
Best character
Best gameplay
Best puzzles
Best background art
Best character art
Best animation
Best music & sound
Best programming (lighting effects, reflections, computer interface, mini games, birds, gravel, among other things)