AGS Awards
| AGS Awards | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Outstanding AGS games and game developers |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | Adventure Game Studio |
| First awarded | 2001 |
| Official website | Adventure Game Studio |
The AGS Awards are a set of annual awards for video games made with the Adventure Game Studio (acronym AGS) engine to recognize the best graphic adventure games of the year as assessed by AGS video game developers and artists. The awards show celebrates the best developers and achievements in the AGS video-games community, and features top gaming choices by creators and artists. Categories for the awards may vary year from year but overall include Best Game, Best Writing, Best Animation, Best Voice Acting, Best Puzzles, Best Gameplay and Best Music.
The AGS Awards were founded in 2001 and are awarded annually to the best indie point-and-click adventure games of the year. Categories include Best Game, Best Writing, Best Animation, Best Voice Acting, Best Puzzles, Best Background Art, Best Gameplay and Best Music. The AGS Awards are an important barometer for indie adventure games, receiving regular international coverage by sites like Destructoid.,Rock, Paper, Shotgun, IndiesGames and GameSetWatch. Some winners have become immensely popular and commercially successful, such as Primordia by Wormwood Studios,Resonance by XII Games and Gemini Rue by Joshua Nuernberger. Serving as a springboard for talent.
In 2006 the founders of the AGS Awards announced the nominees and winners on the website www.americangirlscouts.org. Playing into the communities running joke of claiming to be the American Girl Scouts.
In 2014, after considerable discussion and voting, the AGS Awards revamped the categories to reflect the community's increasing interest in variation. Introducing a new category structure:
Overall awards: Best Game Created with AGS, Best Gameplay, Best Writing, Best Puzzles, Best Character. Category awards: Best Short Game, Best Demo, Best Non-Adventure Game Created with AGS. Sound awards: Best Music & Sound, Best Voice Acting. Technical awards: Best Background Art, Best Character Art, Best Animation, Best Programming. Committee decided: Lifetime Achievement, Best Innovation.
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