We were honored to see Strangeland take home four Adventure Game Studios Awards today:

Best Character Art
Best Puzzles
Best Voice Over
Best Programming

Moreover, our programmer/triumvir James Spanos was rightly honored with a Lifetime Achievement award. James not only single-handedly coded Primordia, Strangeland, and Until I Have You, he also helped code The Cat Lady and Mage's Initiation, and either ported or polished almost all of the games in the Wadjet Eye catalogue.

The last two awards are especially great given how rarely the programming of adventure games gets recognized, even though it is an indispensable part of an engaging player experience.

If you'd like to read about some of the award-winning coding feats James Spanos pulled off for Strangeland, check out his dev diary on the subject.

If you want to read about award-winning character art, you can read Victor Pflug's portion of our interview in Monstrum.

If you'd like to read more about the philosophy beyond our award-winning puzzles, you can read my (Mark's) dev diary on "The Power of Puzzles."

Finally, if you want to see a behind-the-scenes look at the award-winning cast of voice actors, led by Abe Goldfarb and directed by Dave Gilbert, check out this YouTube playlist.

We're truly grateful for these awards, but as always, the thing that matters most is knowing that they are the product of player's expressing their support for the game, and we are always mindful of the many ways players have given that support -- sometimes vocally with Steam reviews, sometimes tangibly with fan crafts, and sometimes silently simply by playing our game. We love you.