XYZZY Awards 2006

XYZZY Awards 2006
Competition
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Part of series	XYZZY Awards
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IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries
Results
Winner: Best Game	The Elysium Enigma
Winner: Best Writing	Delightful Wallpaper
Winner: Best Puzzles	Delightful Wallpaper
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	Delightful Wallpaper (Navigating the mansion)
Winner: Best Individual PC	Delightful Wallpaper
Winner: Best Individual NPC	The Elysium Enigma
Winner: Best NPCs	Floatpoint
Winner: Best Setting	Floatpoint
Winner: Best Story	The Traveling Swordsman
Winner: Best Use of Medium	The Baron (aka de Baron)
Finalist: Best Game	The Baron
Finalist: Best Game	Floatpoint
Finalist: Best Game	The Primrose Path
Finalist: Best Game	The Traveling Swordsman
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Aunts and Butlers
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	The Baron
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Legion
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	The Bible Retold
Finalist: Best Individual PC	The Baron
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Legion
Finalist: Best Individual PC	The Primrose Path
Finalist: Best Individual PC	The Traveling Swordsman
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Floatpoint
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Madam Spider's Web
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Möbius
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Strange Geometries
Finalist: Best NPCs	Aunts and Butlers
Finalist: Best NPCs	The Baron
Finalist: Best NPCs	Delightful Wallpaper
Finalist: Best NPCs	Moon-Shaped
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Möbius
Finalist: Best Puzzles	The Elysium Enigma
Finalist: Best Puzzles	The Traveling Swordsman
Finalist: Best Puzzles	The Warlord, The Princess & The Bulldog
Finalist: Best Setting	Ekphrasis
Finalist: Best Setting	Star City
Finalist: Best Setting	Strange Geometries
Finalist: Best Setting	Unauthorized Termination
Finalist: Best Story	The Baron
Finalist: Best Story	Moon-Shaped
Finalist: Best Story	Pantomime
Finalist: Best Story	The Elysium Enigma
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Another Goddamn Escape the Locked Room Game
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Bronze
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Legion
Finalist: Best Writing	The Baron
Finalist: Best Writing	Floatpoint
Finalist: Best Writing	Legion
Finalist: Best Writing	Pantomime
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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 Johnson; Versificator).
  • 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 Johnson; Versificator).
  • 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 (archive). The deadline for first-round voting was Sunday, February 11, 2007, at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
• 2006 XYZZY Awards Finalists (archive). The deadline for second-round voting was Thursday, March 1, 2007, at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
• Winning Games of 2006 (archive)
• The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on Sunday, March 4th, 2007 at 5pm eastern (2pm pacific, 10pm GMT).
  • Ceremony transcript in one text file (archive) at XYZZYnews. Contains the peanut-gallery channel chat.