XYZZY Awards 2005

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2005 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).
• Best Writing: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).
• Best Story: Beyond (Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti; publisher: Mondi Confinanti; Glulx).
• Best Setting: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: Distress (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
• Best NPCs: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Following the murderer in Beyond (Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti; publisher: Mondi Confinanti; Glulx).
• Best Individual NPC: The storyteller, in Whom the Telling Changed (Aaron A. Reed; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: Wendy Little, in Tough Beans (Sara Dee; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Mystery House Possessed (Emily Short; Z-code).

2005 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Chancellor (Kevin Venzke; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Distress (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
  • Finalist: Finding Martin (Gayla Wennstrom; TADS 2).

• Best Writing: Vespers (Jason Devlin, Z-code).
  • Finalist: Bolivia By Night (Aidan Doyle; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Chancellor (Kevin Venzke; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Mix Tape (Brett Witty; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Tough Beans (Sara Dee; Z-code).

• Best Story: Beyond (Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti; publisher: Mondi Confinanti; Glulx).
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Chancellor (Kevin Venzke; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Distress (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
  • Finalist: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).

• Best Setting: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Building (Poster; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Chancellor (Kevin Venzke; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Distress (Mike Snyder; Hugo).

• Best Puzzles: Distress (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
  • Finalist: Building (Poster; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Cheiron (Sarah Clelland and Elisabeth Polli; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Finding Martin (Gayla Wennstrom; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).

• Best NPCs: Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Bolivia By Night (Aidan Doyle; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Flat Feet (Joel Ray Holveck; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Gilded (John Evans as "A Hazard"; TADS 2).

• Best Individual Puzzle: Following the murderer, in Beyond (Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti; publisher: Mondi Confinanti; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Moving the stone (after the labyrinth), in All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Finding something to eat, in Chancellor (Kevin Venzke; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Beating the creature, in Distress (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
  • Finalist: Identifying the killer, in Mystery House Possessed (Emily Short; Z-code).

• Best Individual NPC: The storyteller, in Whom the Telling Changed (Aaron A. Reed; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Agrath, in All Hope Abandon (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Ralph, in Flat Feet (Joel Ray Holveck; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Val, in Gilded (John Evans as "A Hazard"; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Cecilia, in Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).

• Best Individual PC: Wendy Little, in Tough Beans (Sara Dee; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Inspector Maltelli, in Beyond (Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti; publisher: Mondi Confinanti; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Conan, in Conan Kill Everything (Ian Haberkorn; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Jacques, in Flat Feet (Joel Ray Holveck; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The abbot, in Vespers (Jason Devlin; Z-code).

• Best Use of Medium: Mystery House Possessed (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: A New Life (Alexandre Owen Muñiz; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Book and Volume (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Distress (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
  • Finalist: Whom The Telling Changed (Aaron A. Reed; Z-code).

Links

• Nominees. First round voting began on Sunday, January 29, 2006. The first round voting deadline was Sunday, February 12, 2006 at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
• Finalists. Second round voting began on Tuesday, February 14, 2006. The second round voting deadline was Sunday, March 5th, also at midnight EST.
• Winning Games of 2005.
• The awards ceremony occured in ifMUD's Massive Auditorium on Sunday, March 12, 2006 at 4 p.m. EST.
  • Ceremony transcript in one text file at XYZZYnews. Contains the peanut-gallery channel chat.
  • Ceremony transcript by Lucian P. Smith in one HTML page, with peanut-gallery chat in magenta.
  • The 2005 XYZZY Awards Ceremony at Brass Lantern, split into several pages, and offered both with and without the peanut-gallery comments.
  • A digest version of the transcript is also available here on the IFWiki.