🏆 AGS Awards 2024 - Nominate!

[cat]

🏆 AGS Awards 2024

Welcome to the AGS Awards, the event where you, the player, choose the best games of the year!

Step # 1 - nomination time!
Play the games released in 2024. Then 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!


Nominations are open until Sunday 09 February 2025


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 2024. 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. The top five games of each category make it to the voting (as long as they've received at least five nominations). During voting, all(*) members of the community can vote for 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.

* Attention:
Last year we had the case that one game author asked friends and students to register and nominate their game. While this was not strictly forbidden by the rules, it is definitely not appreciated. The AGS awards are for and by the AGS community and not a competition for mobilizing your fans.

So, for this year, only accounts who registered before 2025 are allowed to nominate and vote. If you are a long term member of Discord but didn't have a forum account, yet, please contact me, we might be able to figure this out for you.

The categories will stay the same as last year


Party like it's 1990 in this thread!

[heltenjon]

The categories are:

Best Game of the Year
Best Freeware Game
Best Short Game
Best Non-Adventure Game
Best Demo
Best Audio
Best Visuals
Best Writing
Best Programming
Best Character
Best Gameplay

[RootBound]

This was a great year for AGS. It's hard to believe how many top-quality commercial and non-commercial games were released--it's really going to be a tough competition to win the awards! 

For my part I managed to release 3 different games this year (2 for MAGS, one not) which has been a great year for me as a very-much-still-learning gamedev. Despite my bigger projects moving very slowly, I was able to practice and grow in so many different areas thanks to MAGS.

Speaking of which, I feel like this has also been an amazing year for MAGS in general. Every month it felt like there was a really healthy number of entries--so many I couldn't play them some months--and I wouldn't be surprised to see many MAGS games from this year represented among the eventual nominees. 

On the whole, this year has been a fun and vibrant time to be an AGS player and developer. I look forward to the nomination and voting stages as an excuse to play more of this year's games. 

[Akril15]

Step # 1 - nomination time!
Play the games released in 2023. Then select games you deem worthy in each category!

Not that anyone's likely to be misled by this single line, but...yeah.

[cat]

Nominations are now open until Sunday 02 February 2025

Go play the games and then nominate your favourites!

[The Last To Know]

Okay, it felt like work, but I dutifully nominated all the great games. Too bad I couldn't nominate The Phantom Fellows and The Adventures of the Black Hawk. Is there nothing that can be done if the authors have forgotten to enter their game in the database?

[cat]

Please have a look here:

https://www.adventuregamestudio.co.uk/forums/adventure-related-talk-chat/127942-ags-awards-2024-add-your-games-to-the-database/msg636668116/#msg636668116

[The Last To Know]

Please do it, AGA! 

[cat]

By contact I mean the author should write a PM to AGA.

[The Last To Know]

So, do it Paul! 

[Yanek_Crispbread]

I've contacted the Black Hawk dev and asked him to do it too!

[WHAM]

I don't have an actual release of my own this year, but since I've been doing videos of MAGS games lately, I could expand that into this: once the nominations are published I'll make a list of the games and try to play and record as many of them as I can to try and raise awareness and give people a chance to get a look at the nominees even if they don't have the time for proper playthroughs of their own.

[heltenjon]

I don't have an actual release of my own this year, but since I've been doing videos of MAGS games lately, I could expand that into this: once the nominations are published I'll make a list of the games and try to play and record as many of them as I can to try and raise awareness and give people a chance to get a look at the nominees even if they don't have the time for proper playthroughs of their own.

I think that would be very nice. This year has 10+ of full length games releases, and very few will have had the time to play them all. (Not to mention @FransisKransis , who always releases something big and complex just a month before nomination time.  )

[TheVolumeRemote]

So, do it Paul! 

Thank you so much my friend! I really appreciate you and I'm happy to say, thanks to you, @heltenjon and @Postmodern Adventures and of course to @AGA I am so excited to say The Phantom Fellows is now in the nominations

Thank you all so so much for embodying the spirit of community and rallying together to help me, I am grateful for you all!

[Rik_Vargard]

This was a great year for AGS. It's hard to believe how many top-quality commercial and non-commercial games were released--it's really going to be a tough competition to win the awards! 

I couldn't agree more. The quality this year (2024) is epic overall. This will be suspensful 

[heltenjon]

Step # 1 - nomination time!
Play the games released in 2024. Then select games you deem worthy in each category!

While you're at this, people, please also go to the game's database page, find the box marked Public opinion and click on the link marked your votes. A game needs at least five player ratings to get those nifty orange cups. Although comments are nice, ratings also help. (And ten years from now, this will be a reminder for you that you've already played that game.) For those of you who don't like to write comments, the rating page allows a comment, but does not require it. Thus voting/rating is done anonymously.

[cat]

How are you getting along with nominations? The first votes have already arrived, but we need many more for a meaningful result.
Is the nomination page working alright or did someone have technical difficulties?

[Danvzare]

How are you getting along with nominations? The first votes have already arrived, but we need many more for a meaningful result.
Is the nomination page working alright or did someone have technical difficulties?

I'm personally waiting until closer to the deadline, so I can make a more informed vote. 
(Since I would've had more time to play through games and think things over.)

[RootBound]

I haven't managed to play many games this past year. Will nominate once I get a few more down, hopefully this week or next

[Rik_Vargard]

Same here. Taking some time to play games this month.