The amateur adventure community spirit is alive and well, and becoming more important to the genre every day. 2003 saw some of the greatest Underground releases that we've ever seen, and now Adventure Gamers Underground is preparing to hand out the first annual awards commemorating the very best of the best!

Here are the nominees for all five categories, in alphabetical order:

Best Game

- 5 Days a Stranger
- Keptosh: The Search for Junc
- Out of Order
- Perils of Poom
- The Uncertainty Machine

Best Graphics

- Apprentice
- The Breakdown
- Nick It & Run
- Out of Order
- Phantom Inheritance

Best Sound/Music

- Apprentice
- Flashbax
- Keptosh: The Search for Junc
- Out of Order
- Who Wants to Live Forever

Best Story

- 5 Days a Stranger
- Out of Order
- Perils of Poom
- Reality-on-the-Norm: Apocalypse Meow
- Uncertainty Machine

Best Writing

- Apprentice
- 5 Days a Stranger
- Perils of Poom
- Reality-on-the-Norm: Apocalypse Meow
- Uncertainty Machine