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wilco - 15 February 2016 12:03 PM

I think there are 4 categories that are a lock

Stasis for graphics
Her Story for acting and concept
Armikrog for animation

I think tormentum should get a serious consideration for graphic design, its pretty amazing what they did with it on that budget.
Her story definitely should get concept.
I think animation needs to go to life is strange, its beautifully impressive what they did with the time rewinding.

zane - 15 February 2016 10:52 AM

wilco - 15 February 2016 07:37 AM

I also liked Anna’s Quest a lot but don’t exactly see it as a comedy.

Its not exactly a comedy and its not exactly a drama, but it has excellent writing and where do you put it

This, exactly. Anna’s Quest was equally eligible for Best Dramatic Writing.

Really, though, it was a down year for comedies, so the pickin’s were slim.

Fire? Well, I suppose it was eligible. But let’s just say Fire is no Chaplin.

jaap - 15 February 2016 02:40 PM

And Aviary Attorney: does it have original music? In the trailer I hear a Saint-Saëns Danse Macabre MIDI. But, I don’t own the game, cannot comment on the music in the actual game.

No, it’s all Saint-Saëns.

zane - 15 February 2016 02:48 PM

I think tormentum should get a serious consideration for graphic design, its pretty amazing what they did with it on that budget.
Her story definitely should get concept.
I think animation needs to go to life is strange, its beautifully impressive what they did with the time rewinding.

Max dancing

vs

Puppy claymation
No chance!

(Just kidding, LiS also has good animation moments)

Just a little FYI: The reader poll was supposed to be posted today, but we hit a bit of a snag. Should be up tomorrow instead.

Hah yes wilco, do not blame max’s “different” dancing skills on the devs :p

A lot of really good adventure games came out last year. I managed to complete Dropsy, Fran Bow, Technobabylon, Broken Age, Dead Synchronicity, Her Story, Anna’s Quest, Grim Fandango: Remastered and Read Only Memories. I also played a couple of episodes of Life is Strange. All in all I am pretty pleased with the nominees. We don’t have the reader’s choice yet but I will state my choices now to see if I manage to pick any of the winners.
Best Story: Technobabylon
Best Writing – Comedy: Anna’s Quest
Best Writing – Drama: Her Story
Best Character: Fran Bow, Fran Bow
Best Gameplay: Technobabylon
Best Concept: Her Story
Best Setting: Technobabylon (My choice: Dropsy)
Best Graphic Design: Dead Synchronicity: Tomorrow Comes Today (My choice: Fran Bow)
Best Animation: Broken Age
Best Music: Life Is Strange (My choice: Dropsy)
Best Acting: Life Is Strange
Best Sound Effects: -
Best Non-Traditional Adventure: Life Is Strange
Best Traditional Adventure: Technobabylon
Best Adventure of 2015: (My choice: Technobabylon)

It’s hard to pick my choice for best adventure overall since the games I played this year all had certain areas that they really excelled at but no one game really managed to stand out as my favorite. Well, I did have one game that I like overall, which was Steins;Gate, but there is no visual novel category on the site…yet.

I can’t find much fault in the choices this year from what I’ve played. My only issue is that I think that Dropsy should have got a couple nominations, especially best music for the role cassettes played in the game. But I am glad to see that Fran Bow got a nomination for best character. I also really liked Anna too.

I also want to thank the staff at AdventureGamers for writing such well written reviews and for putting together the Aggie’s. I don’t participate much on the forums but I always like reading the year end game awards because you do a great job at highlighting the best games of the genre. Keep up the great work!

I see the Readers’ Choice poll is now open - although I played quite a few games last year it made me realise just how few of them were current from 2015 so I was only able to submit a few sincere choices, declining others, which possibly may have been different if I’d played more of the competition! - Hopefully not! 

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You changed your avatar Chrissie?! The old one suited you.

I don’t agree, new one is a Beauty