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kainthedragoonx

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 7:56:33 AM

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For those of you that don't know, every year GAMA gives away awards at Origins rewarding the best products in the industry. Anyway, I figured I would show you the list:

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Submissions for 35th Origins Awards will open soon. Watch http://www.originsgamefair.com/aagad/submission for updates and submission forms. The final submission deadline for the 35th Origins Awards is January 15, 2009. No extensions will be given past this date! It is perfectly acceptable to submit games as they are released throughout the year.

For more information about the Origins Game Fair, visit http://www.originsgamefair.com. To learn more about the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design, please visit http://www.originsgamefair.com/aagad.

2007 ORIGINS AWARD SEMIFINALIST LIST

MINIATURE OR MINIATURES LINE
Alien Invasion
Brigade Games

DAG1039 Forsaken Deathstryke, Banger
Dark Age Games

DAG1033 Forsaken Lucky
Dark Age Games

DAG3025 Skarrd Raze #2
Dark Age Games

DAG4010 Brood Mandible
Dark Age Games

DAG1032 Forsaken Hephzibah
Dark Age Games

George R.R. Martin Masterworks - Premium Miniature Line
Dark Sword Miniatures, Inc.

Titanius Fury
Dragonfire Laser Crafts Inc.

Bronzeback Titan, HORDES: Evolution Miniatures Line !
Privateer Press

Dark Heaven Legends Fantasy Miniatures
Reaper Miniatures

MINIATURES RULES
Classic Battletech
Catalyst Game Labs

Dark Age: Essence
Dark Age Games

Saganami Island Tactical Simulator
Ad Astra Games

Forces of WARMACHINE: Pirates of the Broken Coast
Privateer Press

AT-43
Rackham

AE-WWII Core Rule Book
Darkson Designs

Song of Blades and Heroes
Andrea Sfiligoi

Frontiers
Asmodee

Babylon 5: A Call to Arms Second Edition
Mongoose Publishing

Rezolution: Outbreak
Aberrant Games

PUBLICATION, FICTION
Astounding Hero Tales
Hero Games
Edited by James Lowder

Dragons of the Highlord Skies
Wizards of the Coast
Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman

Duty Calls
Games Workshop
Sandy Mitchell

Fire at Will
R! oc
Blaine Lee Pardoe

Flight From the Dark
Mongo ose Publishing
Joe Dever

Frontier Cthulhu
Chaosium
Edited by William Jones

The Orc King
Wizards of the Coast
R.A. Salvatore

Ravenor Rogue
Games Workshop
Dan Abnett

“The Shae Mutiny,” (from No Quarter #11)
Privateer Press
Doug Seacat

The Time Curse
Margaret Weis Productions
James M. Ward

PUBLICATION, NON-FICTION
40 Years of Gen Con
Atlas Games
Robin D. Laws

The Art of Warhammer
Games Workshop
Edited by Marc Gascoigne and Nick Kyme

Battlegames Magazine
Battlegames, Ltd.
Edited by Henry Hyde

Confessions of a Part-Time Sorceress: A Girl's Guide to the Dungeons & Dragons Game
Wizards of the Coast
Shelly Mazzanoble

Grand History of the Realms
Wizards of the Coast
Brian R. James and Ed Greenwood

Hobby Games: The 100 Best!
Green Ronin
Edited by James Lowder

Kobold Quarterly magazine
Open Design
Edited by Wolfgang Baur

No Quarter Magazine
Privateer Press
Nathan Letsinger, editor-in-chief; Eric Cagle, editor; Josh Manderville, art director

Polymancer Magazine
Polymancer Studios
Edited by Andrew Bernstein

Second Person: Role-Playing and Story in Games and Playable Media
MIT Press
Edited by Pat Harrigan and Noah Waldrip-Fruin

ROLEPLAYING GAME
Grimm
Fantasy Flight Games

The Savage World of Solomon Kane
Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

CthulhuTech
Mongoose Publishing
Matthew Grau and Fraser McKay

Star Wars Saga Edition
Wizards of the Coast
Owen K.C. Stephens and Rodney Thompson

Witch Hunter: The Invisible World
Paradigm Concepts
Henry Lopez and Erik Weiner

Battlestar Galactica
Margaret Weis Productions
Jamie Chambers

Suzerain
Talisman Studios
Miles M. Kantir and Zach Welhouse

Faery’s Tale Deluxe
Firefly Games
Patrick Sweeney, Sandy Antunes, Christina Stiles, and Robin D. Laws

Colonial Gothic
Rogue Games
Richard Iorio II and Monica Valentinelli

Comix the RPG
Shiny Red Button Games

ROLEPLAYING GAME SUPPLEMENT
Legend of the Five Rings: Emerald Empire
Alderac Entertainment Group
Shawn Carman, Richard Farrese, Douglas Sun and Brian Yoon

Pirate’s Guide to Freeport
Green Ronin
Chris Pramas, Robert J. Schwalb, and Patrick O'Duffy

Shaintar: Immortal Legends
Talisman Studios
Sean Patrick Fannon, Aaron Rosenberg, and Chrystyne Novack

Castlemourn
Margaret Weis Productions
Ed Greenwood

Delta Green: Eyes Only
Pagan Publishing
Dennis Detwiller, Adam S! cott Glancy and Shane Ivey

Pathfinder: Rise of the Runelords
Paizo Publishing
James Jacobs and Wayne Reynolds

Ruins of the Wild: Dungeon Tiles 4
Wizards of the Coast
Bruce R. Cordell

Autumn Arbor Campaign Setting
Arbor Productions
Lee F. Szczepanik Jr, Erin Szczepanik, Anna Lunsford, Mordechai Luchinsky and Michael Kuhn

Codex Arcanis
Paradigm Concepts
Team Paradigm

Ars Magica: Societates: House of Hermes
Atlas Games
Erik Dahl, Timothy Ferguson, Andrew Gronsky, John Post, Mark Shirley, and Nick Simmonds

GAME SUPPORT
Dungeon Life: Bendy Walls
Z-Man Publishing

Gamemastery Flip Mat: Tavern
Paizo Publishing

Crystalline Counters
Three Sages Games

Hollow Earth Expedition GM Screen
Exile Game Studio

Dr. Wizard's Patented Elevation Indicator
Stratus Artworks

Call Of Cthulhu Dice Set
Q-Workshop

Check Your Six! Flight Stands
Noble Miniatures

The Chronicles of Ramlar - Originsl Soundtrack
Bailey Records

Bleach Trading Card Game Metal Deck Box
Score Entertainment

COLLECTIBLE CARD GAME
Bleach
Score Entertainment
Aik Tongtharadol (lead designer), William Harper (rules editor)

Legend of the Five Rings
Alderac Entertainment Group
Mark Wootton (lead designer), Charles Urbach (cover artist)

The Spoils
Tenacious Games, Inc.
Josh Lytle (lead designer), Patrick Meehan (lead artist)

Stargate TCG Online - Base Set
Comic Images
Evan Lorentz, Paul Dennen, Chuck Kallenbach, Scott Martins, Chris Woods (game design); Steve Thoma, Colton Hoerner (graphic designers)

BOARD GAME OR EXPANSION
Pillars of the Earth
Mayfair Games
Michael Rieneck and Stefan Stadler

Kingsburg
Elfin Werks
Andrea Chiarvesio and Luca Iennaco
!
Qwirkle
Mindware
Susan McKiney Ross

StarCraft: The Board Game
Fantasy Flight Games
Corey Konieczka and Christian Petersen

Last Night on Earth, The Zombie Game
Flying Frog Productions
Jason Hill

Chang Cheng
Teknigames
Walter Obert

AmuseAmaze
HL Games USA Limited
Ethan Goffman

Battue: Storm of the Horse Lords
Red Juggernaut
Jim Long

HeroCard Orc Wars
TableStar Games
Nico Carroll

THUGS!
Tiny Mantis Entertainment
Nik Mikros and T. W. Cooney

TRADITIONAL CARD GAME OR EXPANSION
Walk the Plank
Green Ronin Publishing
Brian Hess and Evan Sass

Before the Wind
Mayfair Games
Torsten Lansbogt

Escalation
Z-Man Games
Reiner Knitzia

Lifeboat
Gorilla Games
Jeff Siadek

Cutthroat Caverns
Smirk and Dagger Games
Curt Cove! rt

Bankruptcy
Tangent Games
Geoff Habiger and Coy Kaissee

You Don't Have More Cows
Fuller Flippers
Dane Fuller

Zombie Fluxx
Looney Labs
Andrew Looney

Infernal Contraption
Privateer Press
Matt Wilson, Jason Soles, Kevin Clark, Erik Breidenstein

Minions
Cloud Kingdom Games
Rick Smith

So there we go! Looks like Dark Age is all over the Mini line! cheesygrin

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Lionheart

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 11:40:41 AM

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How the heck did B5 A Call to Arms get nomminated? That was perhaps the worst publication ever. It was a hardcover, but the binding seperated if you even looked at it funny, the pages looked like they were photocopied on a 1985 xerox, and the Rules sucked badly.

But, I am happy for Dark Age.

kainthedragoonx

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:36:39 PM

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yeah I am pretty happy about the Dark Age stuff myself! A bunch of really high quality stuff.

I also am glad to see Lifeboat on the list. That game is just awesome! mrgreen

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DarthSilentBob

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 12:51:44 PM

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It's too bad Corvus Belli couldn't make it to Origins in an official capacity because their minis and rules wipe the floor with most of the stuff on that list. I haven't read the Dark Age rules so I can't comment there but I have looked at their minis and they have some really nice stuff. So I guess if there's no Helldorado or Infinity, at least they picked Dark Age. biggrin

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Breten

Posted: Wednesday, April 23, 2008 2:53:45 PM

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Lionheart wrote:

The awards are for the game system itself, which is pretty solid in my opinion, not the printing and book binding. Which was crap.

Dr.Mercury

Posted: Saturday, May 17, 2008 1:59:05 AM

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DarthSilentBob wrote:

It's too bad Corvus Belli couldn't make it to Origins in an official capacity because their minis and rules wipe the floor with most of the stuff on that list.

Agreed!!

Xenon_wulf

Posted: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:38:46 AM

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Wow... so Frontiers really DID make it as a nominee. I thought the boss at Asmodee was smoking something when he told me it was nominated... I felt it was too much of a beer & pretzels system to be taken seriously...

WEiRD sKeTCH

Posted: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 11:08:09 PM

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Do people still hold these awards with any respect these days?

Do we forget the year that VOR was nominated and lost to Diskwars? DISKWARS?!

Or the year that Creepy Freaks won best over all?

It's cool to get a plug I suppose, but that award has gone way down the tubes in my opinion.

Stratos

Posted: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:24:03 PM

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WEiRD sKeTCH wrote:

I no longer hold them with any respect. My soundtrack was dropped from the nomination list (Game Accessory) because the game is no longer in print. Should it matter? It was in print last year - which is what the award was for. And the soundtrack is an accessory... not the game itself.

Beyond that, Rezolution: Outbreak (fantastic campaign guide) didn't win miniatures... the best miniature of the year was a freakin' wooden boat used for a scenario... it's more like a map than a mini.

Lame-o awards!

kainthedragoonx

Posted: Monday, June 30, 2008 2:44:46 PM

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Stratos wrote:

WEiRD sKeTCH wrote:

Agreed! I think there needs to be some re-tooling on how the awards work. It needs to be something more than "everyone just votes on stuff in a case" since it's impossible for some items (like a soundtrack) to be properly judged. Same goes for models. The Boat was going to win because it just looked the best in the display case. It's a terrible case of "Judge a book by it's cover."

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