XYZZY Awards 2009

XYZZY Awards 2009
Competition
Frequency
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Part of series	XYZZY Awards
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Organiser
IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries
Results
Winner: Best Game	Blue Lacuna
Winner: Best Individual NPC	Alabaster
Winner: Best Individual PC	Broken Legs
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	Byzantine Perspective
Winner: Best NPCs	Broken Legs
Winner: Best Puzzles	Earl Grey
Winner: Best Setting	Blue Lacuna
Winner: Best Setting	The King of Shreds and Patches
Winner: Best Story	Blue Lacuna
Winner: Best Use of Medium	Blue Lacuna
Winner: Best Writing	Alabaster
Finalist: Best Game	Broken Legs
Finalist: Best Game	Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral
Finalist: Best Game	Make It Good
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Blue Lacuna
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Broken Legs
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Walker & Silhouette
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Make It Good
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Rover's Day Out
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	The Ascot
Finalist: Best NPCs	Blue Lacuna
Finalist: Best NPCs	Dead Like Ants
Finalist: Best NPCs	Make It Good
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Broken Legs
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Make It Good
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Rover's Day Out
Finalist: Best Puzzles	The Duel That Spanned the Ages
Finalist: Best Setting	Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral
Finalist: Best Setting	The Duel in the Snow
Finalist: Best Story	Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral
Finalist: Best Story	Make It Good
Finalist: Best Story	The King of Shreds and Patches
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Alabaster
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral
Finalist: Best Writing	Broken Legs
Finalist: Best Writing	Klockwerk: The Shadow in the Cathedral
Finalist: Best Writing	Make It Good
Finalist: Best Writing	Walker & Silhouette
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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.