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).

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 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).

Nominees (archive). 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 (archive). 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 (archive).
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 (archive) 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.