AGS Awards 2006

The 2006 AGS Awards were run by SSH, with assistance from AGA and CJ.

Winners

2006's winners were:

Best Innovation

• What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed

Best Gameplay

• Duty and Beyond
• Knightsquire
• Reactor 09
• Spooks
• Trilby's Notes

Best Story

• Duty and Beyond
• Reactor 09
• Spooks
• The Shivah
• Trilby's Notes

Best Dialogue Writing

• Reactor 09
• Spooks
• Blackwell Legacy, The
• The Shivah
• Trilby's Notes

Best Puzzles

• Automation
• Duty and Beyond
• Reactor 09
• Trilby's Notes
• What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed

Best Player Character

• Knight and Squire from Knightsquire
• Mortia, from Spooks
• Sydney, from Sydney Finds Employment
• Rabbi Stone, from The Shivah
• Trilby, from Trilby's Notes

Best Non-Player Character

• "Joey Malone" from The Blackwell Legacy
• "Correctional Officer Matthew Holmstett" from Reactor 09
• "Rabbi Amos Zelig" from The Shivah
• "Spooks the fish" from Spooks
• "Tall man" from Trilby's Notes

Best Background Art

• Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine
• Heartland Deluxe
• King's Quest III
• Reactor 09
• The Family Treasure

Best Character Art

• Knightsquire
• Reactor 09
• Sydney Finds Employment
• Blackwell Legacy, The
• The Family Treasure

Best Animation

• Duty and Beyond
• Super Jazz Man
• Sydney Finds Employment
• The Shivah
• Trilby's Notes

Best Programming

• Reactor 09
• The Shivah
• TiLTOR
• Trilby's Notes
• What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed

Best New AGS Resource

• SSH's Walkcycle Generator

Best Use of Sound

• Ben Jordan: Paranormal Investigator - Case 1 Deluxe
• King's Quest III
• Super Jazz Man
• Blackwell Legacy, The
• Trilby's Notes

Best Music

• Duty and Beyond
• Spooks
• Super Jazz Man
• Blackwell Legacy, The
• What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed

Best Documentation

• Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine
• King's Quest III
• What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed

Best Short Game

• Automation
• Chicken VS. Road
• Hallway of Adventures
• Heartland Deluxe
• Knightsquire

Best Demo

• A Tale of Two Kingdoms demo
• Indiana Jones and the Crown of Solomon demo 2.1
• Indiana Jones and the Fountain of Youth DEMO
• Kinky Island DEMO
• Prototypical

Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS

• 1213 Episode 3
• Bullet Train
• Quest Fighter
• Snakes on a Plane
• TiLTOR

Lifetime Achievement Award

• Dave Gilbert

Worst AGS Game (The P3N1S Award)

• Are we there yet?
• Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine

Best Game Created with AGS

• Duty and Beyond
• Reactor 09
• Spooks
• The Shivah
• Trilby's Notes