The Origins Awards nominations were announced at the GAMA Trade Show this past week. See the full list after the break. Congratulations to all the nominees!
(Things I worked on didn’t receive any nominations this year, but that’s not too surprising as I had little in the way of games come out last year. Also, the fiction category (in which I had several releases) apparently got cut due to “insufficient submissions.”)
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Pete Panzeri, the chairman of the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design, is looking for an administrative secretary to help with the daily tasks of the Academy, the organization that handle the Origins Awards for GAMA. He’d prefer to have an Academy member fill the position, but if you work in the adventure gaming industry or have even a small number of published credits, you qualify for free membership.
See Pete’s notice after the break.
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Submissions for the next set of Origins Awards are due by the end of January. If you’re a game designer or a publisher, snap to it.
Check out the official press release after the break.
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GAMA has just posted the full list of winners, including for the Vanguard Award and the Gamers’ Choice. I haven’t seen any details on any new inductees into the Hall of Fame yet though. It’s possible there weren’t any, but I’m still checking.
The fine folks at GamingReport.com just posted the results for this year’s Origins Awards. (Look for the press release after the break below.) Sadly, the two nominated products I worked on (The Authority RPG and Secret of the Spiritkeeper) didn’t take home the statue. Still, they lost out to other worthy products (Ars Magica 5th Edition and Path of the Bold), so I can’t complain too much.
Congratulations to my friends at Atlas Games and Guardians of Order and to all the other winners!
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Just like the title says. Vote now, as the deadline is May 25!
The instructions are a bit obtuse, but you’re supposed to vote on your top five favorite games for 2005, no matter what category they’re in. Then rank those five from 1 to 5, with 5 being the best.
I worked on one of the games on the list, The Authority Roleplaying Game. If you liked it, consider including it in your votes.
Here’s the official press release, for those who care for such details:
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As I’ve mentioned here before, Secret of the Spiritkeeper and The Authority RPG both earned nominations for Origins Awards this year: for Best Fiction Publication and Best Roleplaying Game, respectively. The Academy of Gaming Arts and Design is now voting on the nominees, and the product with the most votes in each category wins the award.
If you’re a member of the Academy and you liked either of those books, please vote. If you’re not a member of the Academy, well, did you know that membership is free to anyone with three published credits in the gaming industry? You still have time to join the Academy and vote before the May 25 deadline.
So, whether you’re voting for my stuff or not, get to it! Then, on July 2, at the Origins Game Convention, we’ll find out who wins.
I realized I forgot to mention that two books I worked on were nominated for Origins Awards this year. Secret of the Spiritkeeper garnered a nod for Best Fiction, and The Authority RPG got one for Best Roleplaying Game. If you’re a member of the Academy of Gaming Arts and Design (and everyone who does creative work in adventure gaming can now join for free), please consider voting for them. In my ever-biased opinion, I think they’re great stuff.
As some of you know, I led the Origins Awards Task Force last year, which revamped the awards from the ground up. I specifically didn’t volunteer to serve on any of the juries this year, as I wanted to see the system stand on its own. It seems to be doing well so far, as shown by the list of nominees, and I have even higher hopes for next year.
Last summer, after the last GAMA elections, the new board hired me to lead a task force charged with reworking the Origins Awards. That job’s now done. As with most things where you get lots of different inputs and try to forge a consensus, I don’t think it’s perfect for anyone. Hopefully, though, most people will be happy with the results.
If you’re a game designer, you can sign up with the Academy (which runs the Origins Awards) for free now. If you want to support the Academy’s efforts, you can buy a supporting membership for $30. This also gets you a free badge to Origins, good seats at the award ceremony, and entrance to the post-awards party. (I got mine right away.)
If you created or published a gaming product in the last year, the Academy website is now open for submissions. The deadline is February 7, so be sure to get yours in now. Good luck!
As part of my work with the Origins Awards Task Force, I was asked to develop at least three different proposals for the GAMA board to consider and put before the GAMA voters for consideration. I just sent off the first last night. Here it is:
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