XYZZY Awards 2014
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Browse the XYZZY Awards either by year:
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Or by category:
- 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
See also:
Dates
- The deadline for first-round voting was April 5, 2015.
- The deadline for second-round voting was April 25, 2015.
- The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on April 26, 2015 at 12:00 PDT. Winners were also simultaneously announced on Twitter.
2014 XYZZY Awards Winners
- Best Game: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- Best Writing: With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Best Story: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- Best Setting: Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- Best Puzzles: Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- Best NPCs: Creatures Such as We (Lynnea Glasser; ChoiceScript)
- Best Individual Puzzle: Sequence of time-travel in Fifteen Minutes (Ade McT; Z-code)
- Best Individual NPC: The Empress in With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Best Individual PC: the PC in the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
- Best Implementation: Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- Best Use of Innovation: Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- Best Technological Development: Inform 7 6L02 and Twine 2.0 (tie).
- Best Use of Multimedia: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
2014 XYZZY Awards Finalists
- Best Game:
- 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- Choice of Robots (Kevin Gold; ChoiceScript)
- Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- Hunger Daemon (Sean M. Shore; Glulx)
- With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Best Writing:
- Eidolon (A.D. Jansen; Web browser)
- With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Best Story:
- 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- Eidolon (A.D. Jansen; Web browser)
- the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
- Venus Meets Venus (kaleidofish; Web browser)
- With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Best Setting:
- 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- Invisible Parties (Sam Kabo Ashwell; Glulx)
- With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Best Puzzles:
- Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- Jacqueline, Jungle Queen! (Steph Cherrywell; Quest 5)
- Best NPCs:
- 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- Blood & Laurels (Emily Short; iOS)
- Choice of Robots (Kevin Gold; ChoiceScript)
- Creatures Such as We (Lynnea Glasser; ChoiceScript)
- Weird City Interloper (C.E.J. Pacian; Z-code)
- Best Individual Puzzle:
- Finding the treasure in More (Jason Dyer; Z-code)
- Sequence of time-travel in Fifteen Minutes (Ade McT; Z-code)
- Best Individual NPC:
- The Empress in With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Macy in Venus Meets Venus (kaleidofish; Web browser)
- The monkey in Monkey and Bear (Carolyn VanEseltine; Glulx, Z-code)
- Your robot in Choice of Robots (Kevin Gold; ChoiceScript)
- Best Individual PC:
- Lynn in Venus Meets Venus (kaleidofish; Web browser)
- Marcus in Blood & Laurels (Emily Short; iOS)
- the PC in the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
- Protagonist in Creatures Such as We (Lynnea Glasser; ChoiceScript)
- Best Implementation:
- Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- Hunger Daemon (Sean M. Shore; Glulx)
- With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Best Use of Innovation:
- AlethiCorp (Simon Christiansen; Web browser)
- An Earth Turning Slowly (Mæja Stefánsson; Web browser)
- Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
- With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
- Best Use of Multimedia:
- 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
- Coming Out Simulator 2014 (Nicky Case; Flash)
- Krypteia (Kateri; Web browser)
- the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
- With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
Links
- XYZZY Awards. The main site. With the announcement.
- Xyzzymposium 2014 posts.
- Interactive Fiction Community Forum threads:
- XYZZY Awards 2014: first round - March 15, 2015.