XYZZY Awards (Best Use of Multimedia)
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The Best Use of Multimedia award honors the best uses of multimedia either as part of or supplemental to a work of interactive fiction released in the given year. Examples of multimedia usage include a website, cover art, a manual, feelies, a movie trailer, and so on.
This award was originally called Best Supplemental Materials and was introduced for XYZZY Awards 2010. It was renamed to Best Use of Multimedia for XYZZY Awards 2014.
Best Use of Multimedia and Best Supplemental Materials Winners
- 2010 Best Supplemental Materials: Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 by Aaron A. Reed.
- 2011 Best Supplemental Materials: PDFs and screencast tutorials for Kerkerkruip.
- 2012 Best Supplemental Materials: Feelies for Muggle Studies (M. Flourish Klink, Glulx).
- 2013 Best Supplemental Materials: Multimedia in Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! (Dietrich Squinkifer, writing as Deirdra Kiai; Web browser and MS-Windows, Macintosh, and iPad).
- 2014 Best Use of Multimedia: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- 2015 Best Use of Multimedia: Secret Agent Cinder (Emily Ryan; 05-Jun-2015; Web browser).
Best Use of Multimedia and Best Supplemental Materials Winners and Finalists
- 2010 Best Supplemental Materials: Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7 by Aaron A. Reed.
- Finalist: Cover artwork for Allein mit Kai.
- Finalist: Emily Short's teaser poster for Counterfeit Monkey (2012). (http://emshort.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/customs-poster-wp.png)
- Finalist: The PDF manual for Leadlight.
- Finalist: Website for Leadlight, by Wade Clarke.
- 2011 Best Supplemental Materials: PDFs and screencast tutorials for Kerkerkruip
- Finalist: Almanac for The Lost Islands of Alabaz
- Finalist: Manual and feelies for Six
- 2012 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
- 2013 Best Supplemental Materials: Multimedia in Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! (Dietrich Squinkifer, writing as Deirdra Kiai; Web browser and MS-Windows, Macintosh, and iPad).
- Finalist: Graphic environment in 18 Cadence (Aaron A. Reed; iPad and Web browser).
- Finalist: Ship plans in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx).
- Finalist: Trailer in Depression Quest (Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler; Web browser).
- Finalist: Cover art in Hill of Souls (Angela Shah; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Labyrinth's Lament (the comic that establishes the setting) in The Sixth Sleep (Sloane Leong; Web browser).
- 2014 Best Use of Multimedia: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- Finalist: Coming Out Simulator 2014 (Nicky Case; Flash)
- Finalist: Krypteia (Kateri; Web browser)
- Finalist: the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
- Finalist: With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- 2015 Best Use of Multimedia: Secret Agent Cinder (Emily Ryan; 05-Jun-2015; Web browser).
- Finalist: Sorcery! 3 (Steve Jackson, inkle)
- Finalist: Summit (Phantom Williams)
- Finalist: Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)
- Finalist: We Know the Devil (Aevee Bee)
