XYZZY Awards 2006
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2006 XYZZY Award Winners
- Best Game: The Elysium Enigma (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
- Best Writing: Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Best Story: The Traveling Swordsman (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
- Best Setting: Floatpoint (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Best Puzzles: Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Best NPCs: Floatpoint (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Best Individual Puzzle: Navigating the mansion in Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Best Individual NPC: Leela in The Elysium Enigma (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
- Best Individual PC: PC in Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Best Use of Medium: The Baron a.k.a. De Baron (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code; English and Dutch).
2006 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists
- Best Game: The Elysium Enigma (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
- Finalist: Floatpoint (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: The Baron a.k.a. De Baron (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code; English and Dutch).
- Finalist: The Primrose Path (Nolan Bonvouloir; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Traveling Swordsman (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
- Best Writing: Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Finalist: Floatpoint (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Legion (Jason Devlin as "Ian Anderson"; Z-code).
- Finalist: Pantomime (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: The Baron a.k.a. De Baron (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code; English and Dutch).
- Best Story: The Traveling Swordsman (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
- Finalist: Moon-Shaped (Jason Ermer; Z-code).
- Finalist: Pantomime (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: The Baron a.k.a. De Baron (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code; English and Dutch).
- Finalist: The Elysium Enigma (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
- Best Setting: Floatpoint (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Ekphrasis (JB; Glulx; French).
- Finalist: Star City (Mark Sachs; Z-code).
- Finalist: Strange Geometries (Phillip Chambers; Z-code).
- Finalist: Unauthorized Termination (Richard Otter; ADRIFT 4).
- Best Puzzles: Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Finalist: Möbius (J. D. Clemens; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Elysium Enigma (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
- Finalist: The Traveling Swordsman (Mike Snyder; Hugo).
- Finalist: The Warlord, The Princess & The Bulldog (David Whyld; ADRIFT 4).
- Best NPCs: Floatpoint (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Aunts and Butlers (Robin Douglas Johnson; DHTML).
- Finalist: Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Finalist: Moon-Shaped (Jason Ermer; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Baron a.k.a. De Baron (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code; English and Dutch).
- Best Individual Puzzle: Navigating the mansion in Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Finalist: Choosing the present in Floatpoint (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: The piano puzzle in Madam Spider's Web (Sara Dee; Z-code).
- Finalist: The reactor puzzle in Möbius (J. D. Clemens; Z-code).
- Finalist: Final puzzle in Strange Geometries (Phillip Chambers; Z-code).
- Best Individual NPC: Leela in The Elysium Enigma (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
- Finalist: The butler in Aunts and Butlers (Robin Douglas Johnson; DHTML).
- Finalist: John in Legion (Jason Devlin as "Ian Anderson"; Z-code).
- Finalist: God in The Bible Retold (Justin Morgan and "Celestianpower"; Z-code).
- Finalist: The gargoyle in The Baron a.k.a. De Baron (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code; English and Dutch).
- Best Individual PC: PC in Delightful Wallpaper (Andrew Plotkin as "Edgar O. Weyrd"; Z-code).
- Finalist: Legion in Legion (Jason Devlin as "Ian Anderson"; Z-code).
- Finalist: PC in The Baron a.k.a. De Baron (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code; English and Dutch).
- Finalist: PC in The Primrose Path (Nolan Bonvouloir; Z-code).
- Finalist: PC in The Traveling Swordsman (Mike Snyder as Anonymous; Hugo).
- Best Use of Medium: The Baron a.k.a. De Baron (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code; English and Dutch).
- Finalist: Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game (Riff Conner; Z-code).
- Finalist: Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies (Øyvind Thorsby; Z-code).
- Finalist: Bronze (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: Legion (Jason Devlin as "Ian Anderson"; Z-code).
Links
- 2006 XYZZY Awards Nominees. The deadline for first-round voting was Sunday, February 11, 2007, at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
- {{dead link|url=http://www.xyzzynews.com/2006finalists.html%7Carchive=https://web.archive.org/web/20160328230417/http://www.xyzzynews.com/2006finalists.html%7C2006 XYZZY Awards Finalists]. The deadline for second-round voting was Thursday, March 1, 2007, at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
- {{dead link|url=http://www.xyzzynews.com/2006winners.html%7Carchive=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624143901/http://www.xyzzynews.com/2006winners.html%7CWinning Games of 2006]
- The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on Sunday, March 4th, 2007 at 5pm eastern (2pm pacific, 10pm GMT).
- {{dead link|url=http://www.xyzzynews.com/2006xyzzyawards.txt%7Carchive=https://web.archive.org/web/20161002033313/http://www.xyzzynews.com/2006xyzzyawards.txt%7CCeremony transcript in one text file] at XYZZYnews. Contains the peanut-gallery channel chat.