XYZZY Awards 2016
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- Best Game | Best Writing | Best Story | Best Setting | Best Puzzles | Best NPCs | Best Individual Puzzle | Best Individual NPC | Best Individual PC | Best Use of Medium (1997–2009) | Best Implementation (2010–) | Best Use of Innovation (2010–) | Best Technological Development (2010–) | Best Supplemental Materials (2010–2013) | Best Use of Multimedia (2014–) | Other awards
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The XYZZY Awards 2016 were organized by Sam Kabo Ashwell.
Dates
- July 4, 2017: Deadline for first-round voting.
- July 21, 2017: Deadline for second-round voting.
- July 23, 2017: Results announced on Twitter.
2016 XYZZY Awards Winners
- Best Game: Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian; 26-Mar-2016; Glulx).
- Best Writing: Take (Katherine Morayati, writing as Amelia Pinnolla; 01-Oct-2016; Glulx).
- Best Story: Foo Foo (Buster Hudson; 06-Apr-2016; Glulx).
- Best Setting: Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady; 01-Oct-2016; Twine).
- Best Puzzles: 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Abigail Corfman; 01-Oct-2016; Twine).
- Best NPCs: Tie
- Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady; 01-Oct-2016; Twine).
- Foo Foo (Buster Hudson; 06-Apr-2016; Glulx).
- Best Individual Puzzle: Customizing the robot in The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short; 05-Jun-2016; Glulx).
- Best Individual NPC: The robot in The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short; 05-Jun-2016; Glulx).
- Best Individual PC: BEL/S in Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman; 05-May-2016; Twine).
- Best Implementation: Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian; 26-Mar-2016; Glulx).
- Best Use of Innovation: The Ice-Bound Concordance (Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe; 21-Jan-2016; iOS).
- Best Technological Development: Ink (inkle).
- Best Use of Multimedia: The Ice-Bound Concordance (Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe; 21-Jan-2016; iOS).
2016 XYZZY Awards Finalists
- Best Game
- Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
- Detectiveland] (Robin Johnson)
- Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
- Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
- Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian)
- Best Writing
- 500 Apocalypses (Phantom Williams)
- Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
- Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
- The Queen's Menagerie (Chandler Groover)
- Stone Harbor (Liza Daly)
- Take (Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla))
- Best Story
- Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
- Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
- Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
- Stone Harbor (Liza Daly)
- Tangaroa Deep (Astrid Dalmady)
- Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover)
- Best Setting
- Ariadne in Aeaea (Victor Ojuel)
- Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
- Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
- Tangaroa Deep (Astrid Dalmady)
- Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover)
- Worldsmith (Interactive Fables)
- Best Puzzles
- 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Abigail Corfman)
- Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
- Fair (Hanon Ondricek)
- Inside the Facility (Arthur DiBianca)
- The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
- Best NPCs
- Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
- Color the Truth (mathbrush)
- Fair (Hanon Ondricek)
- Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
- Best Individual Puzzle
- Killing the vampire in 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Abigail Corfman)
- Sneaking quietly though the house in Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
- Delivering the metallophilic ice to the Robotics Lab in Inside the Facility (Arthur DiBianca)
- Customizing the robot in The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
- Performing the Three Card Trick in Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover)
- Raise a world to the Galactic Accord (worldbuilding) in Worldsmith (Interactive Fables)
- Best Individual NPC
- Dr. Sourpuss in Dr. Sourpuss Is Not A Choice-Based Game (P.B. Parjeter)
- Holly in Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
- The robot (variously-named) in The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
- The mirror in Mirror and Queen (Chandler Groover)
- Best Individual PC
- Good Fairy, Senior Detective in Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
- BEL/S in Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
- Frankie Petrio in Stone Harbor (Liza Daly)
- Morgan the Magnificent in Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover)
- Best Implementation
- Fair (Hanon Ondricek)
- Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
- The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
- Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian)
- Best Use of Innovation
- Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
- The Ice-Bound Concordance (Aaron A. Reed, Jacob Garbe)
- Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
- The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
- Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian)
- Take (Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla))
- Best Use of Multimedia
- Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
- The Ice-Bound Concordance (Aaron A. Reed, Jacob Garbe)
- Ladykiller in a Bind (Christine Love)
- Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
- Worldsmith (Interactive Fables)
Links
- XYZZY Awards site:
- Awards voting, round 1 - June 19, 2017.
- XYZZY Awards 2016, finalists and final round - July 5, 2017.
- The 2016 XYZZY Awards Winners - July 23, 2017.
- Interactive Fiction Community Forum threads:
- XYZZY Awards 2016, round 1 - June 19, 2017.
- XYZZY Awards 2016, final round - July 5, 2017.
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