2005 Origins Award winners
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The following are the winners of the 32nd annual Origins Award
, held in 2006:
Origins Award
The Origins Awards are American awards for outstanding work in the game industry. They are presented by the Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts and Design at the Origins Game Fair on an annual basis for the previous year, so the 1979 awards were given at the 1980 Origins.The Origins Award is commonly...
, held in 2006:
| Category | Winner | Company | Designer(s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Game of the Year | WARMACHINE: Apotheosis Warmachine Warmachine is a tabletop steampunk wargame produced by Privateer Press.The game is played with white metal and plastic miniatures manufactured by Privateer Press representing military characters from the Iron Kingdoms D20 Role Playing Game setting... |
Privateer Press Privateer Press Privateer Press is an award-winning role-playing game and miniature wargame production and publishing studio founded in 2000 by Brian Snōddy, Matt Staroscik and Matt Wilson. Mike McVey joined the partnership early on as Miniatures Director... , Inc. |
Matt Wilson, Jason Soles, and Rob Stoddard |
| Board Game of the Year | Parthenon: Rise of the Aegean Parthenon: Rise of the Aegean Parthenon: Rise of the Aegean is a historical board game that simulates commerce in the Aegean Sea around 600 B.C. 3–6 players begin with control of two villages and a fleet of ships on an island within the Aegean. Each player develops their island through trade, adding villages and structures... |
Siren Bridge Publishing, Inc. & Z-Man Games, Inc | Andrew Parks and Jason Hawkins |
| Collectable Card Game or Expansion of the Year | Ravnica: City of Guilds expansion for Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering Magic: The Gathering , also known as Magic, is the first collectible trading card game created by mathematics professor Richard Garfield and introduced in 1993 by Wizards of the Coast. Magic continues to thrive, with approximately twelve million players as of 2011... |
Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast Wizards of the Coast is an American publisher of games, primarily based on fantasy and science fiction themes, and formerly an operator of retail stores for games... |
Mark Rosewater, Aaron Forsythe, Tyler Bielman, Richard Garfield Richard Garfield Richard Channing Garfield is a mathematics professor and game designer who created the card games Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner, BattleTech CCG, Vampire: The Eternal Struggle , The Great Dalmuti, Star Wars Trading Card Game, and the board game RoboRally... , and Mike Elliott |
| Traditional Card Game of the Year | Gloom Gloom (card game) Gloom is a tabletop card game created by designer Keith Baker and published by Atlas Games in 2004. It won the Origins Award for Best Traditional Card Game in 2005. Three expansion packs have been created since the release of the original game called, Unhappy Homes, Unwelcome Guests and Unfortunate... |
Atlas Games Atlas Games Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing games, board games and card games. Its current president is John Nephew.Games published include:... |
Keith Baker |
| Role-Playing Game of the Year | Artesia Artesia: Adventures in the Known World Artesia: Adventures in the Known World , is a role-playing game based on the comic book Artesia is written and illustrated by Mark Smylie and published by Archaia Studios Press .... |
Archaia Studios Press | Mark Smylie Mark Smylie Mark Smylie is a comics creator, writer and illustrator. He is best known for his Artesia epic fantasy comic series.Born in Florida in 1967, he studied political science, philosophy, art history, and English lit at Columbia University for four years. Besides Artesia, Smylie has also done numerous... |
| Role-Playing Game Supplement of the Year | GURPS GURPS The Generic Universal RolePlaying System, or GURPS, is a tabletop role-playing game system designed to allow for play in any game setting... Infinite Worlds 4th Edition |
Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games Steve Jackson Games is a game company, founded in 1980 by Steve Jackson, that creates and publishes role-playing, board, and card games, and the gaming magazine Pyramid.-History:... |
Kenneth Hite Kenneth Hite Kenneth Hite is a writer and role-playing game designer. He holds an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Chicago and a Bachelor's degree in Cartography from East Central University. He has been writing games since 1981 and full-time since 1995... , Steve Jackson Steve Jackson (US) Steve Jackson is an American game designer. After working for many years at Metagaming Concepts designing such games as Ogre and The Fantasy Trip, he left to found Steve Jackson Games in the early 1980s... , and John M. Ford |
| Miniatures Game or Expansion of the Year | ATZ - All Things Zombie All Things Zombie All Things Zombie, or ATZ for short, is a wargame produced by Two Hour Wargames.The game enables players to play a wargame against zombies or looters and lawless bandits. It is based on their Chain Reaction rules... |
Two Hour Wargames | Ed Teixeira |
| Miniatures of the Year | Wargods of Aegyptus | Crocodile Games | Chris FitzPatrick |
| Historical Board Game of the Year | Lock ‘N Load: Band of Heroes | Matrix Games | Mark H. Walker |
| Historical Miniature Game or Expansion of the Year | Gutshot | Hawgleg | Mike Mitchell, Mike Murphy and Paul Mauer |
| Historical Miniatures of the Year | 10mm WWII Personality Set | Game Figures, Inc | David Higgs |
| Nonfiction Publication of the Year | Historical Miniature Gamer Magazine | Legio X, Inc. | Kathy Plamback and Mike Cosentino |
| Game Accessory of the Year | The 13th Hour - Roleplaying Soundtrack | Midnight Syndicate Midnight Syndicate Midnight Syndicate is an American musical group that has been working mainly in the genre of gothic music since 1997 and is based out of Chardon, Ohio, a suburb of Cleveland... Soundtracks |
Edward Douglas and Gavin Goszka |
| Vanguard Innovative Game Awards | Darter | Future Magic Games | Jason Conkey and Dove Byrne |
| Perplex City Perplex City Perplex City was a long-term alternate reality game presented by Mind Candy, a London-based development team. The first "season" of the game had players looking for "The Receda Cube" , a priceless scientific and spiritual artifact to the people of a fictional metropolis known as "Perplex City",... |
Mind Candy Mind Candy Mind Candy is a British entertainment company, formed in 2003 by UK internet entrepreneur Michael Acton Smith, and based in Shoreditch, London, England... |
Michael Smith and Adrian Hon | |
| Polarity | Temple Games, Inc. | Doug Seaton | |
| XIG: The Four Elements | GT2 Fun & Games Inc. | Greg Scott, Greg Waring,Tor Nawrot, and Tim Huesken | |
| Vanguard Unique Game Awards | Battleground: Fantasy Warfare | Your Move Games, Inc. | Robert Dougherty and Chad Ellis |
| Infinite Armies | BTRC | Greg Porter | |
| Rocketmen: Axis of Evil Rocketmen Rocketmen was constructible strategy game produced by WizKids and released in 2005 and discontinued in 2006. Part of its marketing included animated adventures based on the character of Nick Sion, a rebel and adventurer facing the evil alliance of Terra and Mars.Recently announced by Capcom,... |
WizKids WizKids WizKids, Inc. is an American New Jersey-based company that first made its mark in the game industry producing collectible miniatures wargames. WizKids was purchased by and is a subsidiary of National Entertainment Collectibles Association. The company was founded in 2000 by Jordan Weisman, a... |
Jordan Weisman, Jon Leitheusser, and Shane Small | |
| World at War | Matrix Games | Gary Grigsby | |
| Gamer’s Choice Best Board Game of the Year | Shadows Over Camelot Shadows Over Camelot Shadows Over Camelot is an Arthurian-themed board game designed by Serge Laget and Bruno Cathala. The game was also published in French as Les Chevaliers de la Table Ronde and in German as Schatten über Camelot. Players take on the roles of Knights of the Round Table and play the game by... |
Days of Wonder Days of Wonder Days of Wonder is a board game publisher based in the United States and France. Founded in 2002, Days of Wonder distributes its games to 25 countries. It specialises in German-style board games and have branched out to include some online games. Days of Wonder has published games in English,... |
Authors: Bruno Cathala and Serge Lage Illustration and Graphic Design: Cyrille Daujean and Julien Delval |
| Gamer’s Choice Best Collectible Card Game of the Year | Anachronism Anachronism (game) Anachronism is a tabletop game with aspects of both miniatures and collectible card genres. The basis of the game is war between various historical characters. The creators of the game, TriKing Games and The History Channel, have dubbed it "The Greatest Game in History"... |
TriKing Games | Michael Brown |
| Gamer’s Choice Best Traditional Card Game of the Year | Paranoia: The Mandatory Card Game | Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing Mongoose Publishing is a prolific British manufacturer of role-playing games, miniatures, and card games, actively publishing material since 2001... |
Steve Gilbert |
| Gamer’s Choice Best Historical Game of the Year | Axis and Allies Collectible Miniatures Game Axis & Allies Miniatures Axis & Allies Miniatures is a miniature wargaming system including both a rule set and a line of 1/100 scale miniature armor collectible miniatures. The game is set in the World War II era with units representing individual vehicles and artillery or squads of infantry... |
Avalon Hill / Wizards of the Coast | Richard Baker Richard Baker (game designer) Richard Baker is an American author and a game designer who has worked on many Dungeons & Dragons campaign settings.-Early life, education, and military:... (lead), Paul Barclay, Aaron Forsythe, Devin Low, and Jonathan Tweet |
| Gamer’s Choice Best Role Playing Game of the Year | Serenity Serenity (role-playing game) Serenity Role Playing Game is a science fiction role-playing game released in 2005 and set in the universe of the movie Serenity and television series Firefly... |
Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd Margaret Weis Productions, Ltd is a publisher.It published Serenity role playing game in late 2005 to coincide with the release of Joss Whedon's feature film Serenity based on the television series Firefly... |
Jamie Chambers |
| Gamer’s Choice Best Miniatures of the Year | WARMACHINE: Apotheosis | Privateer Press, Inc. | Matt Wilson, Jason Soles, and Rob Stoddard |
Hall of Fame inductees
- Aaron AllstonAaron AllstonAaron Allston is an American game designer and novelist of many science fiction books, notably Star Wars novels. His works as a game designer include game supplements for several role-playing games, several of which served to establish the basis for products and subsequent development of TSR's...
- Jolly R. Blackburn
- Rodger MacGowan
- Dennis Mize (posthumous)
- Mike PondsmithMike PondsmithMichael Alyn Pondsmith is a roleplaying game and video game designer.He is best known for his work with R. Talsorian Games, where he developed most role-playing game lines from the company's beginning to the present: Mekton , Cyberpunk , Cybergeneration, Teenagers from Outer Space, Castle...
- James ErnestJames ErnestJames Ernest is an American game designer and juggler. He is best known as the owner and lead designer of Cheapass Games. Prior to founding Cheapass, he worked as a juggler at various venues, including Camlann Medieval Village, and as a freelancer with Wizards of the Coast. He also worked for...