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==List of nominees for XYZZY Awards 2008==
David Welbourn, here's what I did until now in order to make this page as complete as possible for the XYZZY Awards:
* Added all the games in French, Spanish and Italian. At least, I ''think'' they're all here now.
* Looked at all the 2008 games on IFDB and on Baf's Guide, and adding the few ones which weren't on the IFWiki already.
* Added the [[Commonplace Book Competition]] IF games.

Here's what I ''didn't'' do (but maybe you've already done some of these things?):
* Games in Russian (see the Russian IFWiki) ''(anyway, I doubt a game in Russian, even if it's really good, will win a XYZZY award...)''
* Games in German (but I guess they're already all here?)
* 2008 games from:
** IF Archive
** ADRIFT website
** Quest website
** AIF websites
** JACL games
** SUDS games
** T.A.B. games (but I don't think there were any?)

A few other remarks:
* Don't forget that you shouldn't include [[IntroComp 2008]] games.
* By the way, should we include ''Blue Lacuna''? It was a kind of intro too, wasn't it?
* I think (but I'm not sure) that two games released in 2008 according to the IFDB were actually released in 2007: ''Crystal and stone, beetle and bone'' (see the IFWiki) and ''Pentari: Second Dawn'' (see [http://www.malinche.net/sciencefiction.html the Malinche website]).
* From the IFDB, I also didn't include ''Werewolves and Wanderer'', ''Trollslayer'' and ''War mage'' because they seemed to be just new versions of older games, if I understand correctly. I didn't include ''Unscientific Fiction'', either, because it's apparently not complete. 

Good luck for the list! --[[User:Eriorg|Eriorg]] 07:11, 26 January 2009 (PST)

Hi, Eriorg. I spent most of Monday trying to come up with a list to hand over; it's currently at http://www.plover.net/~davidw/tmp/IFGamesIn2008.txt , and I've let Eileen know (via inky) that the list is there. I remembered to not include the IntroComp games, nor Alabaster, nor the Guncho games. I agree that CSBB and P:SD were released earlier (I have a 2006 release of CSBB, but that might've been incomplete then.) I knew not to include Trollslayer, since I remember Dwarflover well enough, and I tried to leave out other ports I knew about, but I didn't know about some of these others. I suspect you're right about Blue Lacuna, and that needs to go onto the 2009 list instead. I did not research Russian games at all. I'm hoping to make one list of corrections (additions and removals) in one go, which perhaps can get to Eileen by Thursday? But I felt I had to get a list out *now*, otherwise we might end up fiddling with it forever, and the XYZZY Awards can't wait much longer. -- [[User:Dswxyz|David Welbourn]] 13:45, 27 January 2009 (PST)