🏆 AGS Awards 2022 - For Your Consideration

[cat]

Have you made a game in 2022 and want it to compete in the AGS Awards 2022? 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 an 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!

[Danvzare]

Autumn of Death: Black Friday II

For your consideration -

AGS Database link

Summary of the game:
Autumn of Death: Black Friday II is a commercial horror comedy game where you're being hunted by a killer scarecrow, and have to either escape or find a way to stop it. There are multiple endings, and you even get to play as a few different characters throughout the game.

It's a sequel to one of my previous games, Black Friday, although it plays a bit different to that game.


Trailer:

Possible Awards:
Best Game Created with AGS
Best Programming
Best Gameplay
Best Puzzles
Best Writing
Best Animation
Best Background Art
Best Character Art

[heltenjon]

Getting the Picture

For your consideration -

AGS Database link

As there haven't been that many non-adventures made with AGS this year, I feel we have to put forward those that fit the bill.

Game summary:
It's a quiz game of sorts where the player has to guess at famous paintings, cropped images, movie posters and the likes of that. Also sporting a can't-get-out-of-your-head small ditty composed and performed by KitKat and lots and lots of "hidden" dialogue and funny commentary from the people in the pictures. I think it may be the only game this year where both Christ and Batman has lines. And don't forget that the left button is not always the right button.


Please consider nominating for:

Best Non-Adventure made with AGS
Best Music

[Postmodern Adventures]

For your consideration:

NIGHTMARE FRAMES

by Postmodern Adventures

AGS Database Page  Steam Page Itch.io Page

Nightmare Frames is a supernatural thriller where you'll step into the shoes of Alan Goldberg, in the search for the scariest horror film of all time. An enthralling journey through the streets of the Hollywood of the 80s, a small haunted town, and even Hell itself.

Please consider for:

• Best Game Created with AGS
• Best Writing
• Best Character (Alan Goldberg or Rick Bowman)
• Best Puzzles
• Best Background Art
• Best Character Art
• Best Animation
• Best Music and Sound
• Best Programming
• Best Gameplay

[Kini Games]

For your consideration:

SIGNAL & ECHO: IRIS IS MISSING (DEMO)
Play it on AGS | Play it on Steam | Play it on itch.io

Help Ollie, a fledgling reporter on his first day at the Signal & Echo newspaper, to solve the mystery behind a schoolgirl's recent disappearance.
This one-hour-plus demo, developed by a former journalist, uses a mix of traditional point-and-click mechanics and a unique text parser system to really test your deduction skills.
Ask characters about any hotspot or proper noun, and use the same system to find new locations on your map and past news articles on your computer.

By Kini Games, with player character animations by Hobo

Trailer

Screenshots (click to enlarge)

Please consider for:

• Best Demo

[CaptainD]

For Your Consideration...


Snow Problem


Currently 107 levels of physics puzzle solving (may increase in the future) please a built-in, easy-to-use level editor to create your own masterpieces.

Snow Problem is a game in which you collect snow. There are obstacles to stop this being easy of course, so you need to create extra terrain on the game screen to guide the snow to the bottom of the screen. Added some terrain in the wrong place / somewhere that was helpful but isn't any longer? No problem, you can delete it. Oh, and did I mention that there are also different obstacles that will melt your snow?

Many levels contain areas that change the colour of the snow, and you will need to collect a certain amount of each colour to complete the level. As you complete levels, more levels unlock for you to play. The full game will have 100 levels. Every level will be tested by the developer to ensure that it is definitely completable, so if you fail, you know it's your own fault! :-)
















Please consider for:

• Best Programming
• Best Gameplay
• Best Non-Adventure Game Created in AGS

[Kastchey]

For your consideration...

The Potion Master
A classic point'n'click adventure game by CaptainD and Kastchey
Created in three weeks for MAGS competition (theme: Healing)

Download via AGS database

Markus, a young and eager apprentice of a mysterious alchemist, has suddenly found himself in deep water when his master falls unconscious due to an unknown illness.
To save her, he needs to figure out some secrets of the trade on his own. And fast.

Please consider for:
*MAGS of the Year (it's a MAGS alright, and one of the monthly winners)
*Best Writing (I've heard the worldbuilding was semi-decent)
*Best Puzzles (a fairly balanced mix of everything + potion brewing)
*Best Character Art (sprites and portraits made in classic pixel art style)

The backgrounds and objects were pixel-painted with care, but some AI-generated reference images and textures have been used to aid the process, so you might not want to consider the game for Best Backgrounds especially if you are against any AI involvement in art. Feel free to PM me for more details if you like.

The music is not original, it was fully sourced from FreeSFX.co.uk so please do not consider for Best Music & Sound.

[CrashPL]

For your consideration...

AGS database | IndieDB demo | Steam | GOG

In 2020 you went on an Adventure. Now prepare for a Journey... A Zid Journey!

The cartoon dinosaurs are back in the second chapter of the Zid and Zniw Chronicles series!
Inspired by classic adventure games, Zid Journey features point 'n click gameplay combined with charming
hand-made visuals, comicbook-esque vibe and frame-by-frame animations. Venture into a lore-rich prehistoric world and get ready
to explore even more places and meet many prehistoric characters!

Join Zid, a young dinosaur from Magmosia, in his journey of reuniting a Daspletosaurus hatchling
with its lost parents, while also trying to uncover his own mysterious origins...

Please consider for:

• Best Demo
• Best Dinosaur game

Thanks so much! Hope you have fun pointing and clicking your way through the familiar prehistoric world of Polisemia!

[Honza]

For your consideraiton:




Famed for its mushrooming business and idyllic countryside, the land of Fungham has seen better days. A child has gone missing, a demonic witch haunts the woods and if you're not careful, gnomes will take your socks. Also, there is a pig king... don't ask. But why have all these creatures suddenly appeared? Where did the witch come from and what does she want? Could the answer to everything lie behind the ancient gate in the nearby mountains?

The Witch's Lullaby is a classical point and click adventure, somewhat reminiscent of games like King's Quest or Legend of Kyrandia. It was made in two weeks for AdvJam 2022 and it ended up ranking #1 in the jam.

Windowed mode recommended if you have a low tolerance for blurry pixels .

Check it out here:
ITCH | AGS database

Please consider for:

• Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
• Best Short Game
• Best Writing
• Best Character (Helga?)
• Best Puzzles
• Best Background Art
• Best Character Art
• Best Music and Sound
• Best Gameplay

[faustmonkey]

A SON OF XENON

A Retro Space Quest Fan Game Adventure!

Play it Here!  |  Check Out Its AGS Page Here!

Tired of all that irritating adrenaline that floods your body when you play a modern video game?

Feeling nostalgic for the point-and-click adventures of your childhood, with their problem-solving, reading and long quiet stretches of not knowing what to do next?

A Son of Xenon hearkens back to adventure gaming's golden age. It's a fanmade prequel to the popular Space Quest sci-fi comedy series, with the look and feel of a 320x200 pixel 16-color adventure from 1989.

Travel to strange new planets, puzzle your way through parallel worlds, all while stealing every item not nailed down and cramming them into your bottomless inventory pants.

Great Story and Dialog!
Thanks to rapid advances in chat bot technology, by next year every entry in this category will be written by an unfeeling chromium steel AI. Savor the old world charm of artisanal word choices made by an actual fellow human while you still can.

State-of-the-Art Retro Graphics!
Like all PC adventure games from 1989, this adventure boasts a palette of up to sixteen colors -- and we used every one of them to bring a fascinating spectrum of sci-fi worlds to life, from barren deserts to busy cityscapes to monster-ravaged space stations.

State-of-the-Art Retro Characters!
With all of that, you'd think there's no way this game could also have sprites. Wrong. This game has more sprites than colors even. Plus the sprites are animated, like in the popular game Elden Ring. 

Music!
A Son of Xenon is a treat for the ears as well as the eyes and brain, with an entire suite of achingly beautiful original compositions designed to bring out all the right emotions when you play. When it's a sad part in the game, the music is sad as well. When it's happy, the music is also happy. How did we figure out what to play and when? With...

Programming!
Son of Xenon was created entirely using AGS, which by our scorecard makes us a shoe-in to win Best Game Created with AGS and Best Programming, assuming none of the other games being nominated thought to do that.

Free to Play!
That's right! This game won't cost you anything but your time and patience, both of which are finite and probably running out fast, so we'll wrap up this paragraph and let you get to the For Your Consideration part.

For Your Consideration
If you like adventure games, you're probably the sort of person who likes considering things. So please consider us for the following categories:

• Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
• Best Writing
• Best Character
• Best Background Art
• Best Music & Sound
• Best Programming
• Best Puzzles

[FransisKransis]

For Your Consideration: Graceward - Complete Edition

Graceward showed up here last year in early access, but the commercial release is now out, and it's a title which very much continues the running theme of 90's nostalgia. Though I think you'll find Graceward harkens back even more to DOOM and BLOOD than anything by LucasArts or Sierra. Graceward is half point and click, and half shooter.

Most relevantly to the AGS awards, there is a free demo of the game on Itch, so anyone can try it out.

It's also on steam, if achievements are really important to you. Happy hunting, and godspeed.

AGS Database: https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2650-graceward-complete-edition/
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2217060/Graceward__Complete_Edition/
Itch: https://thinking-of-cremation.itch.io/graceward

Please consider Graceward for:
-Best Music & Sound
-Best Writing
-Best Gameplay

[Tomags]

For Your Consideration

MR. TIJERAKIS

AGS Game Database Link

Itch Io Link

Mr. Tijerakis is where the celebrities go to get their hair done when they are in a hurry.

Try to cut as many customers as possible and you may stay on business for the whole week.

Arcade casual game.

Please consider for:
- Best Non-Adventure Game Created in AGS
- Best Programming
- Best Gameplay
- Best Character Art
- Best Music

[lorenzo]

For your consideration:

LINK!





After being stuck on an asteroid with a decrepit, gabby hermit for a week, Clotilde has had enough!
She must find a way to call for help and hitch-hike a ride out of there!

Please consider this game for:
- Best Freeware Game Created with AGS (it's free!)
- Best Background Art (the background with all the objects was nice enough)
- Best Character Art (there are aliens and they move!)
- Best Animation (see Best Character Art)
- Best Writing (at least one joke must've been funny)
- Best Character (Clotilde is definitely a character)
- Best Gameplay (you click with your left mouse button and sometimes with the right too)
- Best Puzzles (the puzzle where you have to do the thing to grab the thing without disturbing the thing is pretty good)
- Best Short Game (is it short or medium length? who cares, vote for it anyway!)

LINK!




A pilot descends on a planet where something strange is going on. When he arrives at a scientist's camp, there's no trace of humans. Only robots are left and their behaviour is strange. Where did the humans go?

Please consider this game for:
- Best Freeware Game Created with AGS (you don't pay for it, so it's free!)
- Best Background Art (for any faults in them, I use the excuse that the game was made for a game jam)
- Best Character Art (see: Best Background Art)
- Best Writing (there are characters and they talk)
- Best Character (see: Best Writing)
- Best Short Game (it's not too long)

[WatchDaToast]

For your consideration:

AGS Database I Steam I GOG

Strange things are happening in the animal kingdom of Velehill. Unknown shadows of large appearance are seen roaming through the forests and making the ground shake with every step of their steel feet. Houses and trees are destroyed and one animal after the other seems to disappear mysteriously.
Finn, a young roebuck, soon finds out about the disappearance of his family as well. Without hesitation, he goes on a journey to find them, not knowing he and his new friend Gwen the owl will soon uncover a dark secret that should have been kept hidden for all eternity...

Please consider for:

Best Game Created with AGS
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Gameplay
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Original Music & Sound Design
Best Voice Work
Best Programming
Best Puzzles

Thanks so much!

[eri0o]

For Your Consideration

Completed Games Thread | Download on itch.io | Game on AGS DB

Tonight, you are out in the woods. As a cat.

Please consider Don't Give Up the Cat for:

• Best Programming
• Best Original Music & Sound Design
• Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGS
• Best Short Game

[adipson]

For your consideration:

AGS PAGE | STEAM (demo and full game)

Grandma Badass is a 2D cartoon adventure game.
This point and click video game puts you in the shoes of GrandMa, an old woman who is going to work to find her black cat Marius, who has disappeared and probably been kidnapped.

FEATURES
Enter a fun and lively adventure, filled with characters with their own personalities and a big part of the story that evolves over the episodes, taking GrandMa from her living room to the city and then to various distant countries...
A point and click game in the pure style of old school games, with original dialogues in the form of speech bubbles, like in comic books.

   

•     Texts and object descriptions fully translated into French
•     Find the solution to many puzzles following a certain logic
•     Configure the game in different screen resolutions
•     A smart quest tracker allows you to stay on top of your objectives and easily find your way around
•     You can combine items to create new ones
•     You only need the mouse to control the game and GrandMa's movements
•     The game's Prologue is available for free on the demo (about 30 minutes of play minimum)
•     Each episode takes you on an adventure lasting between 1 hour minimum and 3 hours or more. (8-10 hours to finish the game)
•     Very simple dialogues with a system of displaying icons in bubbles, like in a comic strip, and an audio mix of languages in a hilarious gibberish that is perfectly understandable for everyone)
•     Save system to secure yourself at any time or quit the game at any time!

GrandMa Badass is a game that is logical enough to never lose the player and requires a minimum of observation and logic to complete each episode.

Please consider for:

• Best Game Created with AGS
• Best Writing
• Best Character
• Best Gameplay
• Best Background Art
• Best Character Art
• Best Animation
• Best Original Music & Sound Design
• Best Programming
• Best Puzzles

Thanks so much and have a nice game !

Demo is available on itch too : https://adipson.itch.io/grandma

[glurex]

For your consideration:

A little first person point'n'click adventure game
Created in three weeks for MAGS competition (theme: Museum)

AGS Database | Itch.io

PLOT

A Monstuano suddenly comes to the Non-Living Entities Redirection Office. And that means... troubles. The eternal intern of the office will try to get some specific items to complete the ritual that will lead the Monstuano to his respective paradise.

FEATURES

- English and Spanish language
- Original (dynamic) Music made by me
- Some freesound.org effects
- Hidden Objects, Pixel Hunt and Weird riddles puzzles
- AI generated portraits (with different expressions)
- Backgrounds photos manipulated by hand with Paint Shop Pro 7 (1999)
- A short experience
- Autosave

PLEASE CONSIDER FOR:

MAGS of the Year (It's not my favorite even, but... why not?)
Best Short Game (I's short indeed)
Best Writing
Best Character (the boss?)
Best Gameplay
Best Background Art (well... no, but I manipulate the photos with a 90's tool  )
Best Original Music & Sound Design (I put an effort with the dynamic music)
Best Programming (Well...)
Best Puzzles (Well there are one or two puzzles on it)

[Vincent]

For your consideration:

AGS | Steam

A gothic mystery set in the 19th Century, Castle Dornstein is a point-and-click adventure game that follows Hemlock, a young scholar hired to translate a mysterious medieval book known as The Devil's Diary.

Written by a monk named Gregorovitz who went mad and renounced his faith, the legendary book was lost for centuries until Lord Fiodor Dornstein discovers it.

Lord Fiodor invites Hemlock, an expert in Medieval Latin, to the Bohemian countryside to stay in the crumbling Castle Dornstein as he translates the book. When the book goes missing on Hemlock's first night at the castle, everyone becomes a suspect and Hemlock must explore a castle where secrets hide in the shadows and a dark history waits to be discovered.

Solve puzzles as you search for clues and explore the many rooms of the castle. Travel to the nearby village of Krkanov, where gossip about the castle points to an ominous past. As your investigation continues, you begin to unravel a mystery much greater and far more disturbing than a stolen book.

Please consider for:

• Best Demo
• Best Gameplay
• Best Background Art
• Best Animation
• Best Writing
• Best Character (Hemlock)
• Best Music & Sound
• Best Programming
• Best Puzzles

[Falsely]

For someone's consideration, maybe yours:

Beat the Buzzer
Why didn't this episode air?
AGS Database || Itch.io || GameJolt

You've acquired a recording of a quiz show episode. The studio closed down. The episode never aired. And there's something wrong with the footage. Why haven't you thrown it out yet? Are you just that incapable of letting a question go unanswered?

A trivia/visual novel game in the style of found footage horror.

(Received a polish update about two months after its initial addition to the AGS database. The over-all story and gameplay flow is much the same, but there are a few more easter eggs and side-conversations for those who enjoy kind of thing.)

Please consider for:
- Best Non-Adventure Game Created in AGS
- Whatever else you feel's appropriate, excluding music (it's Kevin MacLeod)

There's Something in the Pipes
Ah, hell. It's blood.
AGS Database || Itch.io || GameJolt

You are the owner of a movie rental store. You have one hour until your shift. You need a shower. The shower is full of blood. Go figure.

A very serious plumbing simulator that straddles the line between silly and spooky. Bother your employee, talk to rubber ducks, and generally make a mess in your quest to unclog a drain.

Please consider for:
- Best Short Game
- Whatever else you feel's appropriate, excluding music (it's public domain)

[Volcan]

Two little ghosts of that house

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2647/

In a haunted house, help Mel to find a toy for his sister Bianca.



Please consider for:
- Best Short Game

[lapsking]

For your consideration:
The Will

AGS database
Your wicked sister wants to claim all of the inheritance with a fake will. In this point and click adventure game you are going to search your father's house to find his original will to get your share.









Please consider for:
- Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
- Best Writing
- Best Puzzles

[grizzlypants]

For those about to rock... I mean, to vote for games:
Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die!

AGS database link
Steam link (-70% until Feb 15th!)
Itch.io link





Rock 'n' Roll Will Never Die! is a parodic adventure inspired by classic point-and-click games, heavy metal, and underground comics. You'll jump into the beer-soaked denim vest of a middle-aged teddy bear to orchestrate the comeback of your old glam metal band, not caring that glam metal has been the laughing stock of everyone in the music industry since the 1980s. A true heavy metal heart never stops beating!

The game hasn't found a huge audience yet, but those who have played it seem to have enjoyed it a lot. The Steam user reviews are really positive, and to quote some of the game reviews out there:

"Possibly one of the best scripts in a point and click."
Vulgar Knight

"It is a modern classic and a game that must be played!"
8/10 – Movies Games and Tech

"Almost flawless."
4.5/5 – Game Reality

You probably should play the game first, if you haven't yet, to know what you're nominating. It is a full-length commercial game, however, so it costs money and requires probably 10+ hours to play through (you might still be able to get it on sale before the nominations close, just saying...). You can consider the game for whatever categories you see fit, but here are some that are nice and groovy. Make it so!

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

[granulac]

Perfect Tides

AGS database link

For your consideration:

Summary:
Perfect Tides is a point and click adventure game about the agony and anticipation of being a teen. Set in the year 2000, you follow Mara, an internet-obsessed young writer who lives on a so-called island paradise.





"One of the year's best games." -Kotaku
"A harrowing, funny, beautiful, horrifying, and ultimately reassuring work of art." -AV Club
"Breathtakingly good... an incredible feat of storytelling." -Buried Treasure
"Devastatingly honest." -Polygon

It would do my heart well to be honored by the AGS community. Please consider Perfect Tides for:

Best Game
Best Writing
Best Character
Best Background Art
Best Character Art
Best Animation
Best Original Music

 

[MIGGO]

For your consideration I present:

Menial: a Utopian Bagel Simulator (demo)

DATABASE LINK

This game is a genre mashup between a Visual Novel, a Restaurant Simulator and a Point and Click -game. You play as Maria who's trying to figure out life in a fully automatized utopian society working as a bagelist; yes, that's someone who makes and sells bagels. You may expect lots of dialogue to read with interesting characters and world building, some light puzzling and a bagel making simulator to mess around with. I'd love for you to try it out!




As the game is a demo, please consider Menial for the category:

-Best Demo

Exciting!

[ddavey1983]

For your consideration from GOC Games 2022

Highland Spirit
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2646-highland-spirit/



Becky Speed is an aspiring novelist who is seeking to break her writer's block with a relaxing solo trip to the Scottish Highlands.However, Becky is about to discover that in her idyllic cottage, she is not alone at all...

A traditional point and click adventure game and winner of MAGS November 2022.

Cutman
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2626-cutman/



\"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.\" - Mike Tyson

The Champ is facing his toughest fight yet and you, as his trusted cutman, must patch him back together between rounds. Get it right and glory shall be yours. Get it wrong and he'll be flat on the canvas...and you'll be looking for a new job.


Siren
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2633-siren/



It's nighttime in the City of Angels. Two cops approach end of watch on a busy night shift. Then there's one last call...

A short point and click adventure game and winner of MAGS September 2022.


Flash McCoy
https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/site/games/game/2620-flash-mccoy/



Flash McCoy, World War 1 flying ace once soared above the battlefields of France, downing multiple enemies before breakfast.Now, down on his luck, he delivers the mail in the middle of nowhere and all he downs before breakfast are double whiskies.

However, Flash's quiet existence is about to be turned upside down when a routine delivery turns out to be anything but.

A traditional point-and-click adventure game and winner of MAGS June 2022.

[TripTilt]

For your Consideration

SPHONX

AGS Database Link
itch.io Link

a short but ages spanning adventure where science fiction meets comedy on an archeological expedition researching the past but in the future...

This is a commercial Game, but also has a demo to give you a taste for the game and for voting in the awards...
(there was an earlier Tech Demo, but the current gameplay demo was released in 2022)

Please Consider SPHONX for
* Best Game Created with AGS  (why not, lemme try)
* Best Writing
* Best Character
  for Banana loving clumsy rebellious Iggy or maybe the kind of helpful but unfriendly game tutor...
* Best Animation (even the demo has the cool intro)
* Best Background Art (why not)
* Best Original Music & Sound Design (music is by emont and the sfx are really good as well)
* Best Voice Work (fully voiced and sounds great)
* Best Demo (we have a demo)
* Best Short Game (could be fitting, there are waaaay longer games)
* Best Puzzles