XYZZY Awards 2012
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2012 Awards Winners
- Best Game: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Best Writing: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
- Best Story: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
- Best Setting: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Best Puzzles: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Best NPCs: Guilded Youth (Jim Munroe, Z-code).
- Best Individual Puzzle: Surviving the fall in Bigger Than You Think (Andrew Plotkin, Glulx).
- Best Individual NPC: New Rat City from rat chaos (J Chastain, Twine).
- Best Individual PC: Alexandra from Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Best Implementation: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Best Use of Innovation: First Draft of the Revolution (Emily Short, Liza Daly and Inkle).
- Best Technological Development: Vorple for Inform 7 (Juhana Leinonen).
- Best Supplemental Materials: Feelies for Muggle Studies (M. Flourish Klink, Glulx.)
2012 XYZZY Awards Winners and Finalists
- Best Game: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Finalist: Andromeda Apocalypse (Marco Innocenti, Glulx).
- Finalist: Bee (Emily Short, Varytale).
- Finalist: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine)
- Best Writing: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
- Finalist: Bee (Emily Short, Varytale).
- Finalist: Dinner Bell (Jenni Polodna, Z-code).
- Finalist: Eurydice (Anonymous, Z-code).
- Best Story: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
- Finalist: Changes (David Given, Z-code).
- Finalist: Eurydice (Anonymous, Z-code).
- Finalist: First Draft of the Revolution
- Best Setting: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Finalist: Changes (David Given, Z-code).
- Finalist: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine)
- Finalist: Zero Summer (Gordon Levine, Tucker Nelson & Becca Noe, StoryNexus).
- Best Puzzles: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Finalist: Bigger Than You Think (Andrew Plotkin, Glulx).
- Finalist: Dinner Bell (Jenni Polodna, Z-code).
- Finalist: Endless, Nameless (Adam Cadre, Z-code).
- Finalist: In a Manor of Speaking (Hulk Handsome, Glulx).
- Finalist: Shuffling Around (Andrew Schultz, Glulx).
- Best NPCs: Guilded Youth (Jim Munroe, Z-code).
- Finalist: Andromeda Dreaming (Joey Jones, Glulx).
- Finalist: The Statue Got Me High (Ryan Veeder, Z-code).
- Best Individual Puzzle: Surviving the fall in Bigger Than You Think (Andrew Plotkin, Glulx).
- Finalist: The hold-all in A Killer Headache (Mike Ciul, Glulx).
- Finalist: Making a taco in Shuffling Around (Andrew Schultz, Glulx).
- Best Individual NPC: New Rat City from rat chaos (J Chastain, Twine).
- Finalist: Kadro from Andromeda Dreaming (Joey Jones, Glulx).
- Finalist: W.D. from Speculative Fiction (Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack, Z-code).
- Best Individual PC: Alexandra from Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Finalist: Olivia from Olivia's Orphanorium (Sam Kabo Ashwell, Glulx).
- Finalist: Hector Conrad from Sunday Afternoon (Christopher Huang, Z-code).
- Best Implementation: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Finalist: Andromeda Apocalypse (Marco Innocenti, Glulx).
- Finalist: Speculative Fiction (Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack, Z-code).
- Finalist: Sunday Afternoon (Christopher Huang, Z-code).
- Best Use of Innovation: First Draft of the Revolution (Emily Short, Liza Daly and Inkle).
- Finalist: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
- Finalist: Guilded Youth (Jim Munroe, Z-code).
- Finalist: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
- Best Technological Development: Vorple for Inform 7.
- Finalist: Playfic
- Finalist: Quest web editor
- Finalist: StoryNexus
- Best Supplemental Materials: Feelies for Muggle Studies (M. Flourish Klink, Glulx.)
- Finalist: The covers for Cover Stories
- Finalist: CYPHER website and materials
- Finalist: Marco Innocenti's cover art for the Andromeda games
Dates
- The deadline for first-round voting was April 15, 2013, 0:00:00 PDT.
- The deadline for second-round voting was May 7, 2013, 0:00:00 PDT.
- The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on May 11, 2013, 12:00:00 PDT.
Links
- XYZZY Awards. The main site.
- XYZZY Awards 2012 nominees. Currently an unofficial draft report, by David Welbourn, of all the 2012 games and where to find out more about them.
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TODO: Finalists and winners, when they'll be announced
TODO: Finalists and winners, when they'll be announced