Nominees for 34th Origins Awards
Origins 2008 is underway, and the nominees have been announced for the 34th Annual Origins Awards. For the categories relevant to BGN, the nominees are:
Board Game or Expansion
- Battue: Storm of the Horse Lords, by Jim Long (Red Juggernaut)
- Kingsburg, by Andrea Chiarvesio and Luca Iennaco (ElfinWerks)
- Last Night on Earth, by Jason Hill (Flying Frog Productions)
- Pillars of the Earth, by Michael Rieneck and Stefan Stadler (Mayfair Games)
- StarCraft: The Board Game, by Corey Konieczka & Christian Petersen (Fantasy Flight Games)
- Bankruptcy, by Geoff Habinger and Coy Kissee (Tangent Games)
- Cutthroat Caverns, by Curt Covert and Justin Brunetto (Smirk and Dagger Games)
- Infernal Contraption, by Matt Wilson, Jason Soles, Kevin Clark and Erik Breidenstein
- Lifeboat, by Jeff Siadek (Gorilla Games)
- Race for the Galaxy, by Thomas Lehmann (Rio Grande Games)
- Zombie Fluxx, by Andrew Looney (Looney Labs)
- Age of Empires III, by Glenn Drover (Tropical Games)
- Asia Engulfed, by Rick Young and Jesse Evans (GMT Games)
- Athens and Sparta, by Tom Dalgliesh and Grant Dalgliesh (Columbia Games)
- Duel in the Dark, by Friedemann de Pedro (Pilot Games and Z-Man Games)
- Struggle for Rome, by Klaus Teuber (Mayfair Games)
- Tide of Iron, by John Goodenough (Fantasy Flight Games)
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Jun 26, 2008 at 12:00 PM in Game News, The Industry at Large / 1336
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Wow! Those are pretty good nominations. Sure, there is no Stone Age, Manoeuvre, or Pandemic, but maybe those were too late for their cutoff. Posted by Jonathan Franklin on Jun 26, 2008 at 12:55 PM | #
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Most interesting. I have played only 2 of the board games and 1 each of the other 2 classes. Must get on the stick. Posted by John Daniels on Jun 26, 2008 at 10:38 PM | #
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I still have problems with how these nominees are nominated: publishers have to submit them, and give a lot of free copies to the Origins team in order to get nominated. That means that if no good games are submitted this way, a lot of crap will be nominated and will eventually win. This is why this award has no value what so ever for me. Posted by Surya Van Lierde on Jun 27, 2008 at 04:12 AM | #
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