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That' s a For Your Consideration thread, not a nomination thread. Nominations were done through a voting page, not on the forums.

Just so you're aware, I'm the guy who made up the ceremony. Many thanks to Yahtzee (and all the other game makers) for sending me the Trilby character.



Errr, this year he didn't win Best Game, and in fact over the 7 years of the awards he's won that accolade only twice, so I'm not sure what you mean by "the award" and that no-one else tried. Certainly he's dominated the non-adventure category recently, and deservedly so, but funnily enough most people use AGS for making adventures.

But Yahtzee is the only guy to get nominations every single year of the awards, and although he didn't win anything in the inaugural awards in 2001, he's undoubtedly a dominating factor in the Awards. Even more amazing, since he still uses a version of AGS from 2004...



He only said that line once, for Best Programming. Surely, reusing an existing game engine is not as great a programming task as writing a new one. Last year it was decided that non-adventures were only eligible for the non-adventure award, but this year I allowed them in the Programming category, too. I also wrote another line of dialogue in the ceremony for the winner of another game when I thought that there would have been a better winner. If I really had anything against Yahtzee, I'd have faked the results. Also, I don't think that kind of line is out of character for Trilby. But if any game authors object to my use of their characters in this way, they can contact me and I'll edit the ceremony.

As for the lifetime achievement award that was mentioned in another thread a while back, I think he should have won it by now too, but I don't make those decisions, although I did choose the committee that did. However, I also think that everyone who HAS won it has also been deserving recipients.