MAGGIES 2022 (WINNER)

Stupot · Tue 24/01/2023 03:44:25

The winner of MAGGIES 2022 is......

Highland Spirit by GOC Games (aka ddavey1983)

Well done Davey. It is a fantastic game, and everyone should play it.

Runners up were:

2nd: The Potion Master by Kastchey and CaptainD
3rd: Saturday is the Loneliest Night of the Week by newwaveburritos

Thank you to everyone who made a game for MAGS in 2022. And thank you to everyone who played the games and voted, rated, commented, and otherwise got involved. You all rock.

Now it's time to decide the best of the best. The cream of the crop. The cherry on top, the icing on the cake, the toad in the hole... Now I'm just hungry.

It's time to cast your mind back to 2022 and vote for your favourite games among the winning MAGS monthly entries. There are 13 entries to choose from (as we had two winners in December's contest).

Voting is simple. Just choose your best three games in no particular order. The game with the most tallied votes will be the winner.

A few requests before we proceed.

1) Please try to have played as many of the games as possible (preferably all of them). If you really don't have time to play every game, some of them have videos you can watch instead (🎬)
2) Only one submission per person.
3) Please vote for games based on their own merits (visual, enjoyment, puzzles etc.). Don't just vote for your friend or fellow countryman's games.
4) You do NOT have to be logged into a Google account but you will be asked for your AGS forum name for verification purposes.

Click here to vote

The winner will be announced as part of the forthcoming AGS Awards ceremony.

Now, here are the games.
As always. Please let me know if I've missed anything.

	January Under the Sea Signal Lost by Brewton 🎬		February About Time Saturday is the Loneliest Night of the Week by newwaveburritos 🎬
	March The Fool Trickers by Elvis Tanner 🎬		April Globetrotting Unlicensed to Kill by GOC Games 🎬
	May Museum Another Museum by glurex 🎬		June Flight Flash McCoy by GOC Games 🎬
	July Masquerade The Will by lapsking 🎬		August Healing The Potion Master by Kastchey and CaptainD 🎬
	September Sometimes Evil Wins Siren by GOC Games 🎬		October Modern-Day Mythology Darkness and Denim by Ponch No video
	November Ghosts Highland Spirit by GOC Games 🎬		December One Big Room Alien Prison Escape by Bulbapuck 🎬
			December One Big Room Santa Quest by GOC Games 🎬

Privateer Puddin' · Wed 25/01/2023 11:09:21

Playing them all now, 2/13 done! Congrats to everyone who completed a MAGS this year, and thanks to Stupot as always for running things

Ponch · Sun 05/02/2023 16:41:32

Working my way through the stack. Do we have a deadline yet?

Stupot · Mon 06/02/2023 11:18:20

Quote from: Ponch on Sun 05/02/2023 16:41:32Working my way through the stack. Do we have a deadline yet?

No, but there's plenty of time yet.

Hobo · Sat 25/02/2023 18:14:33

Played/replayed through all of them today and made my picks. A great selection of various games again this year, had a fun time!

Ponch · Mon 27/02/2023 00:26:02

Voted!

Stupot · Sun 19/03/2023 15:20:39

There's still time to vote for your favourite MAGS game of 2022.

You're encouraged to try to play most, if not all, of the games if you can before voting. However, if that's difficult for any reason, there's also the option to watch a video. I've managed to source/make videos for most of the games. I'm working on getting the missing ones up in the next couple of days.

To watch a video just hit 🎬 below each game title in the table above.

Update: For whatever reason, Darkness and Denim won't record properly with the screen-capture software I use. It just records a black screen. I think it's related to the version of AGS Ponch used for the game. If anyone else wants to have a go, that would be great.

cat · Mon 20/03/2023 09:18:35

Still working on it... looks like there are quite a few medium length games this time

Stupot · Mon 03/04/2023 08:18:19

We'll be winding down the voting for this very soon, once we have a date for the AGS Award ceremony, so it's time to start thinking about voting if you haven't already. Thanks to those who have done so already.

Playthrough videos (🎬) are available for almost* all the titles if playing them all is out of the question.
^{* I still can't get Darkness and Denim to work with my screen-capture software.}

cat · Mon 03/04/2023 08:44:34

Almost done, I need a few more days, please. Thanks for the reminder.

cat · Fri 07/04/2023 20:19:42

Voted!

Ponch · Thu 13/04/2023 02:08:54

Quote from: Stupot on Mon 03/04/2023 08:18:19I still can't get Darkness and Denim to work with my screen-capture software.

How strange. It was made with the best version of AGS available. Surely the inexorable march of time wouldn't leave me behind.

glurex · Fri 14/04/2023 20:21:11

Wow, many interesting MAGS games! hard to select a few... but I've made my election.

Stupot · Thu 20/04/2023 09:05:13

How are we getting on?
The voting closes on April 24th. Three months is long enough, I think.

Stupot · Tue 25/04/2023 03:35:15

The voting is now closed.
Thank you to those of you who were able to vote. The winner will be announced as part of the upcoming AGS Awards

Stupot · Sun 28/05/2023 00:43:50

The winner of MAGGIES 2022 is......

Highland Spirit by GOC Games (aka ddavey1983)

Well done Davey. It is a fantastic game, and everyone should play it.

Runners up were:

2nd: The Potion Master by Kastchey and CaptainD
3rd: Saturday is the Loneliest Night of the Week by newwaveburritos

Thank you to everyone who made a game for MAGS in 2022. And thank you to everyone who played the games and voted, rated, commented, and otherwise got involved. You all rock.