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XYZZY AWARDS 2022: FINAL RESULTS

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The votes are in; these are the winners of the 2022 XYZZY Awards, as voted by
the community. Thanks to everyone who took part, and congratulations to our
winners!

Best Game: According to Cain (Jim Nelson)

Best Writing: The Absence of Miriam Lane (Abigail Corfman)

Best Story: Fairest (Amanda Walker)

Best Setting: Prism (Eliot M.B. Howard)

Best Puzzles: The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)

Best NPCs: Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi (E. Joyce, N. Cormier)

Best Individual Puzzle: the escape room in The Little Match Girl 2: Annus
Evertens (Ryan Veeder)

Best Individual NPC: Computerfriend in Computerfriend (Kit Riemer)

Best Individual PC: Bell Park in The Grown-Up Detective Agency (Brendan Patrick
Hennessy)

Best Implementation: According to Cain (Jim Nelson)

Best Use of Innovation: The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)

Best Technological Development: Inform 7 build 10.1.0

Best Use of Multimedia: Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand (AZ / ParserCommander)

This entry was posted in Announcements, Uncategorized on January 8, 2024 by Sam
Kabo Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2022: FINAL ROUND

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Voting in the nominee round is complete, and we have our finalists.
Congratulations!

Voting is open for the final round, and will remain open through Thursday,
December 28th. The XYZZYs use your IF Comp login; if you need to register an
account with the Comp, or you’ve forgotten your account details, go here. You
can log in here (you’ll get kicked back to the front page, but you are in fact
logged in) and then vote here.


BEST GAME

The Absence of Miriam Lane (Abigail Corfman)
According to Cain (Jim Nelson)
The Archivist and the Revolution (Autumn Chen)
Computerfriend (Kit Riemer)
The Spectators (Amanda Walker)


BEST WRITING

The Absence of Miriam Lane (Abigail Corfman)
According to Cain (Jim Nelson)
Computerfriend (Kit Riemer)
Of Their Shadows Deep (Amanda Walker)


BEST STORY

The Absence of Miriam Lane (Abigail Corfman)
According to Cain (Jim Nelson)
Fairest (Amanda Walker)


BEST SETTING

The Archivist and the Revolution (Autumn Chen)
Prism (Eliot M.B. Howard)
The Spectators (Amanda Walker)


BEST PUZZLES

According to Cain (Jim Nelson)
The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)
The Impossible Stairs (Mathbrush)
A Long Way to the Nearest Star (SV Linwood)
Trouble in Sector 471 (Arthur DiBianca)


BEST NPCS

The Archivist and the Revolution (Autumn Chen)
The Impossible Stairs (Mathbrush)
Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi (E. Joyce, N. Cormier)
The Legend of Horse Girl (Bitter Karella)
The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens (Ryan Veeder)


BEST INDIVIDUAL PUZZLE

Crystal puzzle in Trouble in Sector 471 (Arthur DiBianca)
Escape room in The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens (Ryan Veeder)
Getting the bezoar in The Legend of Horse Girl (Bitter Karella)
Making the goulash in The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)


BEST INDIVIDUAL NPC

Computerfriend in Computerfriend (Kit Riemer)
The duchess in The Spectators (Amanda Walker)
Piecrust the Mouse in The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)
SOLIS in A Long Way to the Nearest Star (SV Linwood)


BEST INDIVIDUAL PC

Bell Park in The Grown-Up Detective Agency (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
Ebenezabeth (the little match girl) in The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens
(Ryan Veeder)
Em in The Archivist and the Revolution (Autumn Chen)
Horse Girl in The Legend of Horse Girl (Bitter Karella)
Karen Zhao in New Year’s Eve, 2019 (Autumn Chen)
Rosalinda in The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)
Thalia in Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi (E. Joyce, N. Cormier)


BEST IMPLEMENTATION

The Absence of Miriam Lane (Abigail Corfman)
According to Cain (Jim Nelson)
The Archivist and the Revolution (Autumn Chen)
The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)
The Impossible Stairs (Mathbrush)
Of Their Shadows Deep (Amanda Walker)
Trouble in Sector 471 (Arthur DiBianca)


BEST USE OF INNOVATION

The Absence of Miriam Lane (Abigail Corfman)
The Bones of Rosalinda (Agnieszka Trzaska)
Cannelé & Nomnom – Defective Agency (Younès R. & Yazaleea)


BEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

Frankendrift
The IF Archive Unboxing Service
Inform 7 build 10.1.0


BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA

The Absence of Miriam Lane (Abigail Corfman)
Cannelé & Nomnom – Defective Agency (Younès R. & Yazaleea)
Computerfriend (Kit Riemer)
Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand (AZ / ParserCommander)
The Grown-Up Detective Agency (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)

This entry was posted in Announcements on December 18, 2023 by Sam Kabo Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2022: FIRST ROUND

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The XYZZY Awards, honouring the interactive fiction games of 2022, are open for
first-round voting. Time to nominate some games!

The XYZZYs are open-voting, and use your IF Comp login; if you need to register
an account with the Comp, or you’ve forgotten your account details, go here. You
can log in here (you’ll get kicked back to the front page, but do not adjust
your set: you are in fact logged in) and then vote here. 

In the first round, anyone can nominate up to two eligible games in each
category. (You are asked not to vote for your own work, or to organise voters to
support a particular game or slate.)

First-round voting will remain open through Saturday, 16 December.

This entry was posted in Announcements and tagged XYZZY Awards 2022 on December
9, 2023 by Sam Kabo Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2021: FINAL RESULTS

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The 2021 XYZZY Awards are complete! Here are the winners; congratulations to
all, and thanks to everyone who participated.

Best Game: What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)

Best Writing: Sting (Mike Russo)

Best Story: What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)

Best Setting: The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)

Best Puzzles: Grooverland (Mathbrush)

Best NPCs: Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires (E. Joyce, N. Cormier)

Best Individual Puzzle: The hair swap, in The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)

Best Individual NPC: Liz, in Sting (Mike Russo)

Best Individual PC: Marid, in The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)

Best Implementation (tie): The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg); The Weight of a
Soul (Chin Kee Yong)

Best Use of Innovation (tie): 4×4 Archipelago (Agnieszka Trzaska); Excalibur
(J.J. Guest, G.C. Baccaris, Duncan Bowsman); The Last Night of Alexisgrad (Milo
van Mesdag)

Best Technological Development: Gruescript (Robin Johnson)

Best Use of Multimedia: Fish & Dagger (grave snail games)

Congratulations again to the winners and nominees. See you next year!

This entry was posted in Announcements on December 22, 2022 by Sam Kabo Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2021, FINAL ROUND

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Voting is complete in the first round of the 2021 XYZZY Awards. Congratulations
to our finalists!

Voting is open for the final round, and will remain open through December 17th.
The XYZZYs use your IF Comp login; if you need to register an account with the
Comp, or you’ve forgotten your account details, go here. You can log in
here (you’ll get kicked back to the front page, but you are in fact logged in)
and then vote here. 

(Anyone may vote, but you are asked not to vote for your own work, or to
organise voters to support a particular game or slate thereof.)


BEST GAME

 * And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
 * The Best Man (Stephen Bond)
 * Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
 * The Faeries Of Haelstowne (Christopher Merriner)
 * The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
 * The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)
 * What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)


BEST WRITING

 * The Best Man (Stephen Bond)
 * Dr Horror’s House of Terror (Ade McT)
 * Sting (Mike Russo)
 * What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)


BEST STORY

 * And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
 * The Best Man (Stephen Bond)
 * Excalibur (J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, Duncan Bowsman)
 * Off-Season at the Dream Factory (B.J. Best (as “Carroll Lewis”))
 * What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)


BEST SETTING

 * Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
 * The Faeries Of Haelstowne (Christopher Merriner)
 * The Golden Heist (George Lockett, Rob Thorman)
 * The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)


BEST PUZZLES

 * Dr Horror’s House of Terror (Ade McT)
 * Grooverland (Mathbrush)
 * Gruesome (Robin Johnson)
 * The Song of the Mockingbird (Mike Carletta)
 * What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)


BEST NPCS

 * And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
 * Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires (E. Joyce, N. Cormier)
 * Mean Mother Trucker (Bitter Karella)


BEST INDIVIDUAL PUZZLE

 * Dead Armadillo in Mean Mother Trucker (Bitter Karella)
 * Hair Swap in The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
 * The movable stage with the laserfight in Grooverland (Mathbrush)
 * The statuette puzzle in The Golden Heist (George Lockett, Rob Thorman)


BEST INDIVIDUAL NPC

 * Cécile in The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
 * The Green Knight in At King Arthur’s Christmas Feast (Travis Moy)
 * Liz in Sting (Mike Russo)
 * Melpomene in Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires (E. Joyce, N. Cormier)
 * Ottoline in The Faeries Of Haelstowne (Christopher Merriner)
 * Riley in And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
 * Skeleton in Gruesome (Robin Johnson)
 * The Witch in And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J.
   Best)


BEST INDIVIDUAL PC

 * Aiden Tunney in The Best Man (Stephen Bond)
 * Big Ester in Mean Mother Trucker (Bitter Karella)
 * Emerson in And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J.
   Best)
 * Marid in The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)


BEST IMPLEMENTATION

 * And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
 * Dr Horror’s House of Terror (Ade McT)
 * Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
 * The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
 * Open Sorcery: Sea++ (Abigail Corfman)
 * The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)


BEST USE OF INNOVATION

 * 4×4 Archipelago (Agnieszka Trzaska)
 * Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
 * Excalibur (J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, Duncan Bowsman)
 * Fish & Dagger (grave snail games)
 * The Last Night of Alexisgrad (Milo van Mesdag)
 * What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)


BEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

 * FrankenDrift release
 * Gruescript release


BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA

 * Cygnet Committee (P.B. Parjeter)
 * Fish & Dagger (grave snail games)
 * Off-Season at the Dream Factory (B.J. Best (as “Carroll Lewis”))
 * [PYG]MALION* (C.J.)

This entry was posted in Announcements on December 7, 2022 by Sam Kabo Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2021: FIRST ROUND

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The first round of the XYZZY Awards, celebrating the best interactive fiction of
2021, is now open.

The XYZZYs are open-voting, and use your IF Comp login; if you need to register
an account with the Comp, or you’ve forgotten your account details, go here. You
can log in here (you’ll get kicked back to the front page, but do not adjust
your set: you are in fact logged in) and then vote here. 

In the first round, anyone can nominate up to two eligible games in each
category. (You are asked not to vote for your own work, or to organise voters to
support a particular game or slate.)

First-round voting will remain open through December 3.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on November 21, 2022 by Sam Kabo Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2020: WINNERS

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Voting is complete on the 2020 XYZZY Awards, and the recipients of the Awards
are as follows:

Best Game: Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road (Kyle Marquis)
Best Writing: Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
Best Story: A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
Best Setting: Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
Best Puzzles: The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
Best NPCs: Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
Best Individual Puzzle: Leaving the house in The Impossible Bottle (Linus
Åkesson)
Best Individual NPC: tie: the parrot in The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush),
and Kingfisher in Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)
Best Individual PC: The doppelganger in Doppeljobs (Lei)
Best Implementation: The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
Best Use of Innovation: The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
Best Technological Development: Adventuron
Best Use of Multimedia: Crocodracula: The Beginning (Ryan Veeder, Harrison
Gerard)

Congratulations to the winners!

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on October 8, 2021 by Sam Kabo Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2020: FINAL ROUND

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The results of the first round are complete; congratulations to our finalists!
Voting is now open for the second and final round, and will remain open through
October 3rd.

The XYZZYs use your IF Comp login; if you need to register an account with the
Comp, or you’ve forgotten your account details, go here. You can log in
here (you’ll get kicked back to the front page, but you are in fact logged in)
and then vote here. 

(Anyone may vote, but you are asked not to vote for your own work, or to
organise voters to support a particular game or slate thereof.)

The finalists of the Awards are as follows:


BEST GAME

 * The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
 * A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
 * Tavern Crawler (Josh Labelle)
 * Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)
 * Vampire: The Masquerade – Night Road (Kyle Marquis)


BEST WRITING

 * Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
 * Limerick Quest (Pace Smith)
 * A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
 * Scents & Semiosis (Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson, Yoon Ha Lee)
 * Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)


BEST STORY

 * Electric word, “life” (Lance Nathan)
 * The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
 * Lore Distance Relationship (Naomi “Bez” Norbez)
 * A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
 * Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
 * Tavern Crawler (Josh Labelle)
 * Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)


BEST SETTING

 * Ascension of Limbs (AKheon)
 * The Eleusinian Miseries (Mike Russo)
 * The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
 * Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
 * The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
 * A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)
 * A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
 * Shadow Operative (Michael Lauenstein)
 * Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)


BEST PUZZLES

 * The Eleusinian Miseries (Mike Russo)
 * The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
 * JELLY (Tom Lento, Chandler Groover)
 * A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
 * Sage Sanctum Scramble (Arthur DiBianca)
 * Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder (Zan, Xavid)
 * Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
 * Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)


BEST NPCS

 * The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
 * Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
 * The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
 * A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
 * Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
 * Tavern Crawler (Josh Labelle)


BEST INDIVIDUAL PUZZLE

 * Cow tipping in Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder (Zan, Xavid)
 * Following the cat through the forest in Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
 * Leaving the house in The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
 * Registering the game in Crocodracula: The Beginning (Ryan Veeder)


BEST INDIVIDUAL NPC

 * Kingfisher in Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)
 * The parrot in The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
 * Sassy Britches in Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
 * Sister in Lore Distance Relationship (Naomi “Bez” Norbez)


BEST INDIVIDUAL PC

 * The Demon in Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)
 * The doppelganger in Doppeljobs (Lei)
 * Elizabeth Boldan in Sense of Harmony (Scenario World)
 * Ichabod Stuff in Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
 * Magpie in The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
 * Open Sorcerer in A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)


BEST IMPLEMENTATION

 * 4×4 Galaxy (Agnieszka Trzaska)
 * The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
 * Limerick Quest (Pace Smith)
 * The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
 * A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)
 * A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
 * Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)


BEST USE OF INNOVATION

 * The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton (Hanon Ondricek)
 * The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
 * JELLY (Tom Lento, Chandler Groover)
 * A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)
 * The Prongleman Job (Arthur DiBianca)
 * Sense of Harmony (Scenario World)
 * Shadow Operative (Michael Lauenstein)


BEST TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

 * Adventuron
 * Dialog


BEST USE OF MULTIMEDIA

 * Babyface (Mark Sample)
 * Congee (Becci)
 * Crocodracula: The Beginning (Ryan Veeder)
 * A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)
 * Present Quest (Errol Elumir)
 * Sense of Harmony (Scenario World)
 * Shadow Operative (Michael Lauenstein)

This entry was posted in Announcements, Uncategorized on September 24, 2021 by
Sam Kabo Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2020: FIRST ROUND

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The XYZZY Awards, celebrating the interactive fiction of 2020, are open for
first-round voting.

The XYZZYs are open-voting, and use your IF Comp login; if you need to register
an account with the Comp, or you’ve forgotten your account details, go here. You
can log in here (you’ll get kicked back to the front page, but do not adjust
your set: you are in fact logged in) and then vote here. 

In the first round, anyone can nominate up to two eligible games in each
category. (You are asked not to vote for your own work, or to organise voters to
support a particular game or slate.)

First-round voting will remain open through the 21st of September (US-Pacific
time).

This entry was posted in Announcements on September 10, 2021 by Sam Kabo
Ashwell.


XYZZY AWARDS 2020, AND AN ANNOUNCEMENT FOR 2021

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It’s the New Year, so we’re ramping up to Awards season.

If there’s a 2020 game you would like to see eligible for the Awards, make sure
it’s listed on IFDB by January 15.

Looking forwards to 2021, we’re planning on a fairly radical experiment in how
nomination for the XYZZYs work. An ongoing issue with the Awards is that the
list of games listed on IFDB for any one year is pretty large. This is a
bottleneck in getting the XYZZYs running, since we have to check them all for
basic eligibility requirements (such as ‘this is a real game that exists’), and
it makes first-round voting more difficult.

Roughly speaking: the goal is that for 2021 games, anyone will be able to
nominate any game for consideration, with submissions open throughout the year.
You’ll be able to self-nominate in round 0, but will also be able to nominate
other works. (The details aren’t fully ironed out on this yet; I’d like to avoid
the case, for instance, where someone writes a script to automatically nominate
every single game in IFDB, or some other extensive listing; but it’s also not
ideal if people feel like they have to save their nominations). We’ll probably
want to periodically update a list of existing nominees. )

(The last time we considered this change, we had fairly mixed reports about the
‘zeroth round’. We welcome your feedback. Either way, the plan is to have the
system set up to go by the end of the 2020 Awards.)



This entry was posted in Announcements on January 4, 2021 by Sam Kabo Ashwell.


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