🏆 AGS Awards 2022 - Awards are over!

Privateer Puddin' · Wed 29/03/2023 15:39:06

Votes are in! Thanks again to everyone organising, and all the developers

cat · Mon 03/04/2023 21:07:22

Last week of voting!

cat · Fri 07/04/2023 20:21:30

Only 2 days left! It is VERY close in a few categories...

The Great Underground Empire · Sat 08/04/2023 13:47:36

Phew, got my votes in just in time!

Being honest, between the horror games (which I don't play) and the pay-up-front games, I only played and voted in a few categories I could fairly judge.

Not to get all economics-philosophical, but I was surprised by the number of pay-up-front games, too.

I'm a firm believer in the new pay-what-you-will online creative market...letting people try your high-quality game first creates way more long term fans who return to buy future games/merch/etc. If you genuinely made something good, trust your new fans to support you. If you didn't, you shouldn't be charging. (Not aimed at anyone here - this is just something I've strongly believed for years.)

Maybe a requirement for consideration in future AGS awards should be free evaluation copies to anyone who requests it, with controlled download links that are shut down after the awards?

Stupot · Sat 08/04/2023 16:19:16

Quote from: The Great Underground Empire on Sat 08/04/2023 13:47:36Maybe a requirement for consideration in future AGS awards should be free evaluation copies to anyone who requests it, with controlled download links that are shut down after the awards?

I know in the past some devs have at least offered reduced prices during the voting period. Any thing that can get more people playing more of the games is a good idea. It's a bit much to make it a requirement though.

QuoteIf you genuinely made something good, trust your new fans to support you. If you didn't, you shouldn't be charging. (Not aimed at anyone here - this is just something I've strongly believed for years.)

I don't think I agree. If someone is confident they've made a great game, and if they've put a great deal of their own time and resources into making it, and have any desire to recoup some of that, then they have to charge a fixed price. Trusting players to cough up is a bad idea, as most won't if it's optional.

LimpingFish · Sat 08/04/2023 19:44:39

Quote from: The Great Underground Empire on Sat 08/04/2023 13:47:36If you genuinely made something good, trust your new fans to support you.

Perhaps, if game development is simply a hobby, you could afford this luxury. But if it's a means to support yourself and your family, and for some commercial developers here it is, this is a big ask.

Quote from: The Great Underground Empire on Sat 08/04/2023 13:47:36Maybe a requirement for consideration in future AGS awards should be free evaluation copies to anyone who requests it, with controlled download links that are shut down after the awards?

A situation like that is just begging to be exploited. And, honestly, I think most developers would rather make sales, than worry about their eligibility for a community awards ceremony.

Ponch · Sat 08/04/2023 21:30:58

Voted! I hope I cast a tie-breaking vote somewhere.

The Great Underground Empire · Sun 09/04/2023 11:23:43

Stupot and Limpingfish: Sure, I get what you're saying. I like the idea too that developers voluntarily reduced prices without it being a requirement. That's just tried and true marketing technique - do a temporary sale to get your product out there, then return to normal price when you've driven up popularity.

Maybe I'm thinking too much towards regularly produced content like podcasts and other weekly-ish content creators, where the consumer gets a continuous, guaranteed reward in exchange for a continuous, tiny trickle of patron money invested. I can see how a one-shot product like a game would be different...no guarantees of more content for possibly years at a time, if ever, so less incentive to financially support it.

Anyways, good luck to everybody in the awards!

cat · Sun 09/04/2023 20:23:57

Last few hours!

It's still very close in some categories.

cat · Mon 10/04/2023 09:41:12

Voting is over. We are preparing the awards client and results for the ceremony.

Kini Games · Mon 10/04/2023 13:00:16

Woop! Do we know when the ceremony's gonna be?

cat · Mon 10/04/2023 19:16:18

This depends on how the awards client team is getting along with updating the client. I'll post here when there is any news.

cat · Wed 19/04/2023 08:17:35

We are STILL missing some of the resources for the awards client. It's quite some effort to prepare the client, so if authors are not willing to help us out, this is very annoying. I'm setting a deadline now:

Resources must be in until this Sunday (23rd April).

Otherwise their game will be represented by a black screen.

cat · Fri 28/04/2023 10:48:13

Sorry for the delay. Kastchey and Dualnames are working hard to include the last resources. In the meantime, let's have a voting when the ceremony will happen:

Choose your favourite time and day!

Please vote using your forum name. You can select multiple dates/times.

Dualnames · Sun 30/04/2023 01:56:28

We're looking really good added a lot of new cool things and nice features so far, really open to suggestions for the client, anything goes, feel free to DM me or type out your ideas here! I can't wait to show you all these things!

shaun9991 · Tue 02/05/2023 12:06:56

Thank you so much for all the nominations for Hob's Barrow!! Was a lovely surprise

cat · Sun 07/05/2023 18:28:08

Last chance for the doodle

https://xoyondo.com/dp/6rYGZ9Zq7b423P4

cat · Sun 14/05/2023 19:25:58

The ceremony will happen on

27 May at 20:00 BST

Cassiebsg · Mon 15/05/2023 23:54:41

Oh, I haven't missed it.
Been so long that I thought it had been held already. :/

Be it my luck, but I'll miss it, or be late to it, since I have a party to attend that day.

cat · Tue 16/05/2023 12:32:10

AGS awards are the best party of all - get your party people in front of your laptop and enjoy the ceremony together