Difference between revisions of "XYZZY Awards 2013"

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Browse the XYZZY Awards either by year:

• 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017

Or by category:

• 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

See also:

• Statistics

Dates

• The deadline for first-round voting is March 9, 2014.
• The deadline for second-round voting is April 4, 2014.
• The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on April 6, 2014, 1:30 PM Pacific time.

2013 XYZZY Awards Finalists

• Best Game:
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Horse Master (Tom McHenry; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Writing:
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: You Will Select a Decision (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; Web browser)

• Best Story:
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Horse Master (Tom McHenry; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Solarium (Alan DeNiro; Web browser)
  • Finalist: ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Setting:
  • Finalist: Choice of the Deathless (Max Gladstone; eReader)
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Horse Master (Tom McHenry; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Robin & Orchid (Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Puzzles:
  • Finalist: Captain Verdeterre's Plunder (Ryan Veeder; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Threediopolis (Andrew Schultz; Z-code)

• Best NPCs:
  • Finalist: Bell Park, Youth Detective (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Choice of the Deathless (Max Gladstone; eReader)
  • Finalist: Ollie Ollie Oxen Free (Carolyn VanEseltine; Glulx)
  • Finalist: ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Witch's Girl (Geoff Moore as "Mostly Useless"; Web browser)

• Best Individual Puzzle:
  • Finalist: Maximizing your profit in Captain Verdeterre's Plunder (Ryan Veeder; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Getting out of the lab in Chemistry and Physics (Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Creating the meat monster in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Three-latch door in Faithful Companion (Matt Weiner; Z-code)
  • Finalist: Discovering the type of route that works in Threediopolis (Andrew Schultz; Z-code)
  • Finalist: Earning one million dollars in ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Individual NPC:
  • Finalist: -bitmap-zer0- in Bell Park, Youth Detective (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Captain Verdeterre in Captain Verdeterre's Plunder (Ryan Veeder; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Mercy in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: the ghost in Faithful Companion (Matt Weiner; Z-code)
  • Finalist: Your horse in Horse Master (Tom McHenry; Web browser)

• Best Individual PC: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)

• Best Implementation:
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Depression Quest (Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Robin & Orchid (Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Trapped in Time (Simon Christiansen; PDF)

• Best Use of Innovation:
  • Finalist: 18 Cadence (Aaron A. Reed; iPad and Web browser)
  • Finalist: Castle of the Red Prince (C.E.J. Pacian; Z-code)
  • Finalist: Ex Nihilo (Juhana Leinonen; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Final Girl (Hanon Ondricek; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Sorcery! (Steve Jackson and inkle; smartphone)
  • Finalist: Trapped in Time (Simon Christiansen; PDF)

• Best Technological Development:
  • Finalist: adv3lite.
  • Finalist: Twine 1.4.
  • Finalist: Versu.

• Best Supplemental Materials:
  • Finalist: Graphic environment in 18 Cadence (Aaron A. Reed; iPad and Web browser)
  • Finalist: Ship plans in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Trailer in Depression Quest (Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Multimedia in Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! (Deirdra Kiai; Web browser and MS-Windows, Macintosh, and iPad)
  • Finalist: Cover art in Hill of Souls (Angela Shah; Z-code)
  • Finalist: The Labyrinth's Lament (the comic that establishes the setting) in The Sixth Sleep (Sloane Leong; Web browser)

Links

• XYZZY Awards. The main site. With the results.
• Interactive Fiction Community Forum threads:
  • XYZZY Awards 2013: first round open - February 17, 2014.
  • XYZZY Awards, Second Round / FLAWLESS VICTORY - March 10, 2014.
  • XYZZY Awards ceremony - March 14, 2014.

Reviews

• The Pseudo-Official XYZZY Awards Reviews, 2013 Edition.