AGS Award nominees announced
After an initial round of open nominations, the nominees for the 2006 AGS Awards were announced today. The AGS Awards honor the best (and worst) games created with the popular Adventure Game Studio engine in a given year.
This year is an interesting one for the awards, because for the first time multiple high-profile commercial games, including Al Emmo and The Lost Dutchman's Mine, The Shivah, The Blackwell Legacy and Super Jazz Man, are competing against the Underground games that have made up the nominees in years past.
Although several of the commercial entries did well, the bigger winner today was Reactor 09 by Bernhard 'Bernie' Politsch, which (appropriately enough) took nine nominations.
The final winner in each category will now be determined by open vote, running until February 11. Visit the Awards site to see the nominees. Voters are asked to only vote in categories where they have played all the nominated games. To make that easier, a torrent file with all the nominated games (with demos of the commercial ones) is available.
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