XYZZY Awards 2009

XYZZY Awards 2009
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• 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

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2009 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx).
• Best Writing: Alabaster (John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, and Ziv Wities; Glulx).
• Best Story: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx).
• Best Setting: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx)
  and The King of Shreds and Patches (Jimmy Maher; Glulx). (There was a tie.)
• Best Puzzles: Earl Grey (Rob Dubbin and Adam Parrish; Glulx).
• Best NPCs: Broken Legs (Sarah Morayati; Glulx).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Finding out how the goggles work in Byzantine Perspective (Lea Albaugh; Z-code).
• Best Individual NPC: Snow White in Alabaster (John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, and Ziv Wities; Glulx).
• Best Individual PC: Lottie Plum in Broken Legs (Sarah Morayati; Glulx).
• Best Use of Medium: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx).

2009 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Broken Legs (Sarah Morayati; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral (Ian Finley and Jon Ingold; publisher: Textfyre; FyreVM).
  • Finalist: Make It Good (Jon Ingold; Z-code).

• Best Writing: Alabaster (John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, and Ziv Wities; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Broken Legs (Sarah Morayati; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral (Ian Finley and Jon Ingold; publisher: Textfyre; FyreVM).
  • Finalist: Make It Good (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Walker & Silhouette (C.E.J. Pacian; TADS 3).

• Best Story: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx).
  • Finalist: The King of Shreds and Patches (Jimmy Maher; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral (Ian Finley and Jon Ingold; publisher: Textfyre; FyreVM).
  • Finalist: Make It Good (Jon Ingold; Z-code).

• Best Setting: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx)
  and The King of Shreds and Patches (Jimmy Maher; Glulx). (There was a tie.)
  • Finalist: The Duel in the Snow (Utkonos; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral (Ian Finley and Jon Ingold; publisher: Textfyre; FyreVM).

• Best Puzzles: Earl Grey (Rob Dubbin and Adam Parrish; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Broken Legs (Sarah Morayati; Glulx).
  • Finalist: The Duel That Spanned the Ages (Oliver Ullmann; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Make It Good (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Rover's Day Out (Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman; Glulx).

• Best NPCs: Broken Legs (Sarah Morayati; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Dead Like Ants (C.E.J. Pacian; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Make It Good (Jon Ingold; Z-code).

• Best Individual Puzzle: Finding out how the goggles work in Byzantine Perspective (Lea Albaugh; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Defeating the Eagle Beast in The Ascot (Duncan Bowsman; ADRIFT 4).
  • Finalist: Working out the controls in Rover's Day Out (Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman; Glulx).

• Best Individual NPC: Snow White in Alabaster (John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, and Ziv Wities; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Lottie's mom in Broken Legs (Sarah Morayati; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Progue in Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx).

• Best Individual PC: Lottie Plum in Broken Legs (Sarah Morayati; Glulx).
  • Finalist: The detective in Make It Good (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Silhouette in Walker & Silhouette (C.E.J. Pacian; TADS 3).

• Best Use of Medium: Blue Lacuna (Aaron A. Reed; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Alabaster (John Cater, Rob Dubbin, Eric Eve, Elizabeth Heller, Jayzee, Kazuki Mishima, Sarah Morayati, Mark Musante, Emily Short, Adam Thornton, and Ziv Wities; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral (Ian Finley and Jon Ingold; publisher: Textfyre; FyreVM).
  • Finalist: Rover's Day Out (Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman; Glulx).

Dates

• The deadline for first-round voting was Thursday, March 4, 2010, 23:59 PDT.
• The deadline for second-round voting was Friday, March 19, 2010 23:59 PST.
• The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on March 20, 2010, 3pm EDT (7pm GMT).

Links

• http://xyzzyawards.org/ is the new home of the XYZZY Awards.
  • Transcript of the awards ceremony.