Hack of the Year 2015 - Results

Category Awards

From the results of the secret ballot in the nomination round, these are the hacks that have had the most votes in each category.


Pokémon Gaia has received the most votes in the ballot's Hack of the Year category, and also the greatest amount of votes from the first round!


And out of all the hacks in Sideshow Showcase, Red++ was voted the community's favourite!

Hack of the Year

A total of 5 judges have played each hack and rated it in four categories. The reviews and reasoning behind the ratings can be found in the thread here. The hack with the highest total rating in each category will get 3 points, the second will get 2, and the last 1. The hack with the highest total of points from each category is the Hack of the Year!

Here's the breakdown for each category:

Graphics

Storyline

Gameplay

General Appeal

Totals and points

Pokémon Gaia has won Hack of the Year, congratulations! Thanks to everyone for participating, and especially to the judges, and to Achromatic for designing this year's awards.

Congratulations to all the winners, and happy hacking!

Interested in seeing the raw data for this year's competition? In the interest of transparency, the spreadsheet used to tabulate and keep track of the competition this year has been made public.

You can pour over the data by clicking this link!

Well deserved win for Gaia, was on a totally different level to the other hacks. Not to take anything away from those hacks. Just they were never going to get close to winning! Gratz to Red++ for showcase win and to Pokemon Life :D

Gaia deserved it played it and got an extremely good expression from it 👍👍

Cant believe Adventure red got so few points it does make me wonder of the type of people who "judges" these games...

johnyboy169 said:

Cant believe Adventure red got so few points it does make me wonder of the type of people who "judges" these games...

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All the judges laid out their reasoning in detail in the previous thread. I think their scores are pretty reasonable, a complete hack does not always make a good one.

Cant say i agree with all the judge but who care

Im gonna play all these hack anyway

Thank you all rom hackers :)))

Congrats everyone!!! Although I didn't participate in voting because I haven't played any of recent hacks, I'm really impressed by Gaia and Life!! I hope they'll be completed soon :)

Congratulations Spherical! And Christos and Aesthode for placing which is really impressive already! I've been loving playing through Gaia a bit and watching the youtube content produced for all three of them!

Gaia deserves the award.I think Adventure Red is getting repetitive. Though it was a good hack but still Pokémon Gaia is way cooler and so far the greatest hack I have ever played.

Congrats to the winners! Surprised to see Gaia sweeping away almost all the awards and glad to see Red++ winning the Sideshow one.

Congrats to Gaia.

Always was my number one choice!

i'm surprised. i considered previously that adventure red would win the first or second place of the HOTY lol

Congrats to Spherical Ice. I have yet to try Gaia, but maybe now I will give it a try

Congrats to gaia!! Never played pokemon roms for a year now.. Its nice to be back

Congratulations on your win Spherical Ice, and congratulations on community favorite Mateo! :)

Congrats to Gaia!

Adventure Red should have won.

I played gaia and it's great!

Mods favouring the mods. Especially that "seeker" guy. Adventure red deserved to win.