Summary
The AGS Awards 2021 were announced in a live ceremony on 9. April, 2022. See the forum thread. The big winner of the night was If On A Winter's Night, Four Travelers with 8 awards including Best Game, followed by Strangeland with 4.
The MAGGIES results were also announced in the same ceremony, with Breakfast on Trappist-1 and Santa Claus in: A Flight to Remember in a tie for the win.
83 games submitted to the AGS Games Database in 2021 competed in the awards, including 9 commercial games, 9 demos, and 20 games from the MAGS competitions. 26 games ended up being nominated.
Kastchey and cat managed the awards with support from, Dualnames, Cassiebsg and AGA. Dualnames returned to take over development of the awards client from Snarky.
Categories
Main Awards
Best Game Created with AGS
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Best Freeware Game Created with AGS
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Writing & Design
Art & Production
Best Games
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Best Non Adventure Game Created with AGS
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Other Awards
Committee Decided
Lifetime Achievement Award
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Dualnames AW
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Dualnames has been an active and engaged community member for years. He has led some of the most significant community activities such as hosting and working on the Awards ceremony and running the MAGS competition. He has also made many contributions to the modules and plugins section and helped many in the technical support sections. On top of all of that he has released several high-quality games.
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Best Innovation Award
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abstauber AW
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For abstauber's contributions to the ready-to-use UI designs and elements that mimic the most iconic designs we all know and love, most notably Tumbleweed Verbs and 9-verb MI Style UI, as well as additional UI helper modules such as CustomDialogGUI and ButtonHelper.
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