Origins Award 2020 Winners Include Tiny Towns Top Honor

October 6, 2020 – The Academy of Adventure Gaming and Arts have announced the Origins Award 2020 Winners which include top honors for Tiny Towns. The Origins Awards were presented for the first time at the very first Origins Game Fair in Baltimore in 1975. The purpose of the awards is to recognize excellence in game design, and increase awareness and sales for the nominees, winners, the Origins convention, and hobby games in general.

Products eligible for the 2020 Awards cycle must have been released to the public between November 15, 2018 and November 14, 2019. The following titles were selected by a jury of 40 hobby games industry professionals as the most deserving in their respective categories.

Best Digital Adaption

• Cutthroat Caverns | Smirk & Dagger Games / Cellbloc Studios | Curt Covert
• Mystic Vale | Alderac Entertainment Group / Nomad Games | John D. Clair
• Raiders of the North Sea | Renegade Game Studios / Garphill Games / Dire Wolf Digital | Shem Phillips
• Through the Ages: New Leaders and Wonders | Czech Games Edition | Vlaada Chvátil
• *WINNER* Tsuro VR | Calliope Games / Thunderbox Entertainment Digital | Tom McMurchie

Best Collectable Game

• *WINNER* Marvel HeroClix: Avengers Black Panther and the Illuminati Booster Brick | WizKids

Best Board Game Accessory

• *WINNER* Citadel Contrast Paint | Games Workshop
• D&D Icons of the Realms: The Falling Star Sailing Ship | WizKids
• Perfect Fit Sealable Sleeves | Dragon Shield
• The Jasper: A Board Gaming Table | BoardGameTables.com
• The Watson Game Topper System | Game Toppers
• Valhallah Screen | Dog Might Games | Mike Cameron, Mike Konas, Alyssa Menold, Lindsey Rode
• Wingspan Organizer and Dice Tower | The Broken Token | Tuan Vo

Best Miniatures Game

• Gaslands: Refuelled | Osprey Games | Mike Hutchinson
• Malifaux 3rd Edition Core Rule Book | Wyrd Games | Thomas Verguet
• Power Rangers: Heroes of the Grid | Renegade Game Studios | Jonathan Ying
• Reality’s Edge: Cyberpunk Skirmish Rules | Osprey Games | Joseph McGuire
• Riot Quest | Privateer Press | Matt Wilson
• *WINNER* Warcry | Games Workshop | Sebastien Toursel

Best Historical Game

• Conflict of Heroes: Storms of Steel (3rd edition) | Academy Games | Gunter Eickert, Uwe Eickert
• *WINNER* Pandemic: Fall of Rome | Z-Man Games | Matt Leacock, Paolo Mori
• U-BOOT: The Board Game | Phalanx Games / Ares Games | Bartosz Pluta, Artur Salwarowski
• Watergate | Capstone Games | Matthias Cramer

Best Historical Miniatures Game

• *WINNER* Bolt Action: Campaign D-Day Overlord | Osprey Games / Warlord Games | Robert Vella, Peter Dennis
• Bolt Action: Korea | Osprey Games / Warlord Games

Best Role-Playing Game

• Alien: The Roleplaying Game | Free League Publishing | Andrew E.C. Gaska, Tomas Härenstam
• Cyberpunk Red Jumpstart Kit | R. Talsorian Games | Mike Pondsmith
• Overlight: The Ivory Mausoleum | Renegade Game Studios | Chris Willaims, Paul Alexander Butler, Joanna Barnum
• Over the Edge (3rd edition) | Atlas Games | Chris Lites, Jonathan Tweet
• Pathfinder Core Rulebook (2nd edition) | Paizo Inc | Logan Bonner, Jason Bulmahn, Stephen Radney-MacFarland, Mark Seifter
• Star Crossed | Bully Pulpit Games | Alex Roberts
• *WINNER* Teens in Space | Renegade Game Studios / Hunters Entertainment | Jonathan Gilmour, Doug Levandowski
• The Expanse Role Playing Game | Green Ronin Publishing | Steve Kenson with Seth Johnson, Ian Lemke, Rich Lescouflair, Rob McCreary, Jason Mical, Neall Raemonn Price, Zack Walters, and Nicole Winchester

Best Card Game

• Air, Land, & Sea | Arcane Wonders | Jon Perry, Valerio Buonfantino, Stephen Gibson
• Cogs and Commissars | Atlas Games | Matt Haga
• DC Deck-Building Game: Rebirth | Cryptozoic Entertainment | Matt Hyra, Jared Saramago, Nathaniel Yamaguchi
• Embers of Memory: A Throne of Glass Game | Osprey Games | Kuro
• Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: ANNIHILAGEDDON Deck-Building Game | Cryptozoic Entertainment | Matt Dunn, Matt Hyra, Cory Jones, RS Bixby
• Kamigami Battles: River of Souls | Japanime Games | Rich Gain
• Lockup: A Roll Player Tale | Thunderworks Games | Stan Kordonsky
• *WINNER* Point Salad | Alderac Entertainment Group | Molly Johnson, Robert Melvin, Shawn Stankewich, Dylan Mangini
• Shuffle Grand Prix | Bicycle | Rob Newton
• Time Chase | Renegade Game Studios | Jonathan Woodard, Michelle Garrett, Allen Panakal, Jeanne Torres
• The Menace Among Us | Smirk & Dagger Games | Jeff Gum, J Hause
• UNDO: Cherry Blossom Festival | Pegasus Spiele | Michael Palm, Lukas Zach

Best Family Game

• ClipCut Parks | Renegade Game Studios | Shaun Graham, Scott Huntington
• Code Stack! | AMIGO Games | Heinz Meister
• Deadly Doodles | Steve Jackson Games | Samuel Mitschke, Randy Scheunemann, Katie Cook
• Dirty Pig | North Star Games | Frank Bebenroth
• Draftosaurus | Ankama Boardgames / Luma Imports | Antoine Bauza, Corentin Lebrat, Ludovic Maublanc, Théo Rivière
• Finger Guns at High Noon | Indie Boards and Cards | John Velgus
• Fireball Island: The Curse of Vul-Kar | Restoration Games | Rob Daviau, JR Honeycutt, Justin D. Jacobson, Chuck Kennedy, Bruce Lund, Noah Adelman, Víctor Pérez Corbella, George Doutsiopoulos, David Kegg, Chuck Kennedy, Bruce Lund, Jason Taylor
• Letter Jam | Czech Games Edition | Ondra Skoupý, Dávid Jablonovský, František Sedláček, Lukáš Vodička, Michaela Zaoralová
• My First Castle Panic | Fireside Games | Justin De Witt, Cam Kendell
• *WINNER* The Quacks of Quedlinburg | North Star Games | Wolfgang Warsch, Dennis Lohausen

Best Board Game Game of the Year

• Call to Adventure | Brotherwise Games | Johnny O’Neal, Christopher O’Neal, Matt Paquette
• Dungeonology: The Expedition | Ludus Magnus Studio / Ares Games | Diego Fonseca, Danilo Guidi ArtistFernando Armentano, Diego Fonseca, Paolo Scippo, Giovanni Pirrotta
• My First Castle Panic | Fireside Games | Justin De Witt, Cam Kendell
• Quacks of Quedlinburg | Northstar Games | Wolfgang Warsch, Dennis Lohausen
• *WINNER* Tiny Towns | Alderac Entertainment Group | Peter McPherson, Gong Studios, Matt Paquette

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Source: Academy of Adventure Gaming Arts & Design Origin Award Winners.

Congrats to all the winners!!

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