The 2025 ParkCrafters Awards - Information and Voting

- INFORMATION & VOTING -

 Welcome to the 2025 ParkCrafters Awards! Below you'll find all the information, voting links, and times for our upcoming anniversary event of the year.

WHAT ARE THE PARKCRAFTERS AWARDS?

The ParkCrafters Awards is our annual award show to help celebrate the community's anniversary and for a time to come together to celebrate everything that has been shared and created throughout the past year—and of course, to celebrate you all! The ParkCrafters Awards is finally here as our anniversary is approaching, so get ready to join in on the fun!

The ParkCrafters Awards is a staff-picked project-nominated award show where you, the community, get to vote on the winners in multiple categories. It all comes together during our live showing of the 2025 ParkCrafters Awards on our Discord server, where the staff will announce the winners, have some fun with the community, and unveil some upcoming surprises from both members' projects and community features. This award show is planned to happen only once a year, around our community's anniversary, where we take a look back at all the amazing content and projects shared.

HOW ARE PROJECTS NOMINATED AND WHAT ARE THE CATEGORIES?

Staff has reviewed every single project that has been posted on ParkCrafters within the past year and determined which ones should be nominated for award categories that span across all aspects of projects and games we host here on ParkCrafters. The official 2025 award categories are:

• Best NoLimits Project (NEW!)

• Best Parkitect Project

• Best Planet Zoo Project

• Best Planet Coaster Project

• Best RollerCoaster Tycoon 3 Project

• Attraction of the Year

• Park of the Year

• Show of the Year

• Custom Content of the Year (NEW!)

• Best Editing in a Project

• People's Choice Award

• Member of the Year

• Project of the Year

*There were not enough projects posted on the RollerCoaster Tycoon 1 & 2 sections to warrant a category this year. Projects can be nominated over multiple categories; for example, a park project from Planet Coaster 1 can be nominated for Best Planet Coaster Project, Park of the Year, and Project of the Year.

We kept certain criteria when nominating projects to make sure that the nomination made sense for both the award show and their respective category. These criteria are:

• The project MUST have been posted on the ParkCrafters website within the last year of ParkCrafters (April 2024 - March 2025)

• Projects only posted on our Discord server are NOT eligible for nomination

• The project MUST have been completed, or if it's an ongoing project (as many park projects are), it must have been ongoing AND active for a minimum of 3 months consecutively

• Past projects that were just reposted on ParkCrafters are NOT eligible for nominations

• Projects posted by now-banned members of the community are NOT eligible for nominations

• Remastered projects are NOT eligible for nominations (these projects are just re-recordings of past already completed projects, or just re-releases of the same exact project - an example of this would be wolfpaw's Star Forger Remaster)

• Remake projects ARE eligible for nominations (these projects must have been completely re-built from the ground up and completely reworked to be eligible; an example of this would be wolfpaw's IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth)

• Projects created by staff members ARE eligible to be nominated

• If an ongoing project won an award last year, it is still eligible for winning another award this year again but ONLY if it is still ongoing and meets the above requirements

HOW DOES VOTING WORK?

While the staff chooses which projects are nominated and the categories, it's up to you and your fellow members to determine which projects should win! At the end of this post, you'll find a link to all nominations where you can vote in a poll in each category thread. Each thread will contain a poll for you to vote in, what that category entails, the nominated projects, links to those nominated projects if you want to revisit them, instructions on how to vote, and a short nominated video showcasing all of the nominated projects.

Voting is ANONYMOUS, and results are HIDDEN until the winners are announced during the live broadcast of the PCAs. Keep in mind that account collusion (creating multiple accounts or forcing others to vote for your project to win) is against our rules, and if found out, we will ban your account(s) immediately. Keep everything fair and let the public decide!

*In the event of a tie, it will be up to the staff's discretion to determine the winner.

WHAT DOES THE LIVE PARKCRAFTERS AWARDS SHOW ENTAIL?

Once voting is complete, the PCAs will be broadcast and the winners announced live on our Discord server. This night will unveil all the winners, the winner for the Canvas Clash competition, upcoming projects from members who sent in videos, upcoming community features, premieres of new projects, and overall just a fun time with all of the community to help celebrate the ParkCrafters anniversary. Talking in the Discord call that night is completely optional, so if you'd like to just jump in to view the award show and be on mute, that is perfectly fine!

CAN I SUBMIT CONTENT TO BE SHOWN DURING THE PCAs?

Yes! If you'd like to submit a new trailer or teaser for an upcoming project - or just debut an entire project during the PCAs, please private message @wolfpaw with your content, and we can add it to the show lineup. Please keep in mind that due to the format and nature of the show, your trailer, teaser, or premiere of a project MUST be in a video format. If you have something you'd like to show, send a message and we can discuss further. We're now taking content to be shown during the PCAs until voting ends, so if you have something, send it in!

WHAT DO I GET IF MY PROJECT WINS?

All winning projects and members will get an exclusive PCAs 2025 badge for your ParkCrafters account, and the project of the year winner will be memorialized in our 'Trophy Room' channel on our Discord server.

TIMELINE OF THE 2025 PARKCRAFTERS AWARDS

The PCAs are now in full swing, and below you can find all the important dates and links:

• Public voting is NOW OPEN and will close on Monday, May 26th, 2025. View all nominees and vote for your favorite projects in each category here!

• The live showing of the 2025 ParkCrafters Awards will be on Friday, May 30th, 2025, at 8:30 PM EST on our Discord server! Be sure to join our Discord and RSVP to the event listed there!

• The final day to submit content to be premiered during the show is Monday, May 26th, 2025.

Check our events calendar for more information on these dates!

FINAL THOUGHTS

We're so excited to celebrate the 2025 ParkCrafters Awards with you all and look forward to a night of fun with the community! Please keep in mind that while this is a competition, the rules of the community still apply to this event. Let's all be civil and encouraging of all the winners, even if your project did not win. If anyone has any comments, questions, or concerns regarding the 2025 ParkCrafters Awards, feel free to respond below or submit a private message to any staff member, and we can help you out. Good luck to all nominated projects, and we'll see you on the award night!

- The ParkCrafters Staff