XYZZY Awards 2007

XYZZY Awards 2007
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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	Lost Pig
Winner: Best Individual NPC	Lost Pig
Winner: Best Individual PC	Lost Pig
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	An Act of Murder
Winner: Best NPCs	Child's Play
Winner: Best Puzzles	Suveh Nux
Winner: Best Setting	Varkana
Winner: Best Story	A Fine Day for Reaping
Winner: Best Use of Medium	Deadline Enchanter
Winner: Best Writing	Lost Pig
Finalist: Best Game	An Act of Murder
Finalist: Best Game	Child's Play
Finalist: Best Game	Fate
Finalist: Best Game	Suveh Nux
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Child's Play
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom
Finalist: Best Individual PC	A Fine Day for Reaping
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Ferrous Ring
Finalist: Best Individual PC	The Reluctant Resurrectee
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Varkana
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Child's Play
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Orevore Courier
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Slap That Fish
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Suveh Nux
Finalist: Best NPCs	An Act of Murder
Finalist: Best NPCs	Lost Pig
Finalist: Best NPCs	Slap That Fish
Finalist: Best NPCs	The Chinese Room
Finalist: Best Puzzles	An Act of Murder
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Child's Play
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Lost Pig
Finalist: Best Puzzles	The Chinese Room
Finalist: Best Setting	Blighted Isle
Finalist: Best Setting	Ferrous Ring
Finalist: Best Setting	Lost Pig
Finalist: Best Setting	Suveh Nux
Finalist: Best Story	An Act of Murder
Finalist: Best Story	Dead Cities
Finalist: Best Story	Deadline Enchanter
Finalist: Best Story	Fate
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	An Act of Murder
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Fate
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Lost Pig
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Slap That Fish
Finalist: Best Writing	An Act of Murder
Finalist: Best Writing	Child's Play
Finalist: Best Writing	Deadline Enchanter
Finalist: Best Writing	The Chinese Room
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2007 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
• Best Writing: Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
• Best Story: A Fine Day for Reaping (James Webb aka "revgiblet"; ADRIFT).
• Best Setting: Varkana (Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot; Glulx).
• Best Puzzles: Suveh Nux (David Fisher; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Child's Play (Stephen Granade; Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Identifying the killer in An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang as "Hugh Dunnett"; Z-code).
• Best Individual NPC: The gnome in Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: Grunk in Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Deadline Enchanter (Alan DeNiro as Anonymous; Z-code).

2007 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang as "Hugh Dunnett"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Child's Play (Stephen Granade; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Fate (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Suveh Nux (David Fisher; Z-code).

• Best Writing: Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang as "Hugh Dunnett"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Child's Play (Stephen Granade; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Deadline Enchanter (Alan DeNiro as Anonymous; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Chinese Room (Joey Jones and Harry Giles; Glulx).

• Best Story: A Fine Day for Reaping (James Webb aka "revgiblet"; ADRIFT).
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang as "Hugh Dunnett"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Dead Cities (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Deadline Enchanter (Alan DeNiro as Anonymous; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Fate (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code).

• Best Setting: Varkana (Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Blighted Isle (Eric Eve; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Ferrous Ring (Carma Ferris; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Suveh Nux (David Fisher; Z-code).

• Best Puzzles: Suveh Nux (David Fisher; Z-code).
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang as "Hugh Dunnett"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Child's Play (Stephen Granade; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Chinese Room (Joey Jones and Harry Giles; Glulx).

• Best NPCs: Child's Play (Stephen Granade; Z-code).
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang as "Hugh Dunnett"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Slap That Fish (Peter Nepstad; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Chinese Room (Joey Jones and Harry Giles; Glulx).

• Best Individual Puzzle: Identifying the killer in An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang as "Hugh Dunnett"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Getting the toy from the cabinet in Child's Play (Stephen Granade; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The thermostat puzzle in Orevore Courier (Brian Rapp; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Beating the shark in Slap That Fish (Peter Nepstad; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Opening the vault door in Suveh Nux (David Fisher; Z-code).

• Best Individual NPC: The gnome in Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Zoe in Child's Play (Stephen Granade; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Gunwar in Treasures of a Slaver's Kingdom (S. John Ross; publisher: Cumberland Games; Z-code).

(Note that there were only three nominations for Best Individual NPC this year.)

• Best Individual PC: Grunk in Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Death from A Fine Day for Reaping (James Webb aka "revgiblet"; ADRIFT).
  • Finalist: The King in The Reluctant Resurrectee (David Whyld; ADRIFT).
  • Finalist: Erskine Ring from Ferrous Ring (Carma Ferris; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Farahnaaz in Varkana (Maryam Gousheh-Forgeot; Glulx).

• Best Use of Medium: Deadline Enchanter (Alan DeNiro as Anonymous; Z-code).
  • Finalist: An Act of Murder (Christopher Huang as "Hugh Dunnett"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Fate (Victor Gijsbers; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Lost Pig (Admiral Jota as "Grunk"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Slap That Fish (Peter Nepstad; TADS 2).

Links

• 2007 XYZZY Awards Nominees (archive). The deadline for first-round voting was Sunday, February 23, 2008, at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
• 2007 XYZZY Awards Finalists (archive). The deadline for second-round voting was Thursday, March 6th, at midnight Eastern Standard Time.
• Winning Games of 2007 (archive).
• The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on Sunday, March 9th, 4:00pm Eastern Daylight Time (1pm PDT).
  • The 2007 XYZZY Awards Ceremony - Transcript by Stephen Granade.