XYZZY Awards 2011
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2011 XYZZY Awards Winners
- Best Game: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin, Hugo).
- Best Writing: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin, Hugo).
- Best Story: The Play (Dietrich Squinkifer, writing as Deirdra Kiai; Undum).
- Best Setting: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin, Hugo).
- Best Puzzles: PataNoir (Simon Christiansen, Glulx).
- Best NPCs: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin, Hugo).
- Best Individual Puzzle: The hat mystery in The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M (Michael D. Hilborn), Last Day of Summer (Doug Orleans), Playing Games (Kevin Jackson-Mead), and Cold Iron (Andrew Plotkin).
- Best Individual NPC: Grimloft in Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin, Hugo).
- Best Individual PC: Mentula Macanus in Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis (Adam Thornton, Glulx).
- Best Implementation: Six (Wade Clarke, Glulx).
- Best Use of Innovation: Kerkerkruip (Victor Gijsbers, Glulx).
- Best Technological Development: TADS 3.1.
- Best Supplemental Materials: PDFs and screencast tutorials for Kerkerkruip.
- Special Recognition: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo, ChoiceScript).
2011 XYZZY Awards Winners and Finalists
- Best Game: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin).
- Finalist: Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis (Adam Thornton).
- Finalist: Six (Wade Clarke).
- Finalist: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best Writing: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin).
- Finalist: Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis (Adam Thornton).
- Finalist: Taco Fiction (Ryan Veeder).
- Finalist: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best Story: The Play (Dietrich Squinkifer, writing as Deirdra Kiai).
- Finalist: Bonehead (Sean M. Shore).
- Finalist: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin).
- Finalist: The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M (Michael D. Hilborn).
- Finalist: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best Setting: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin).
- Finalist: Marine Raider (Allen Gies).
- Finalist: Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis (Adam Thornton).
- Finalist: Six (Wade Clarke).
- Finalist: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best Puzzles: PataNoir (Simon Christiansen).
- Finalist: Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis (Adam Thornton).
- Finalist: The Race (Andy Why).
- Finalist: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best NPCs: Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin).
- Finalist: Cana According To Micah (Christopher Huang).
- Finalist: The Play (Dietrich Squinkifer, writing as Deirdra Kiai).
- Finalist: Six (Wade Clarke).
- Finalist: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best Individual Puzzle: The hat mystery in The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M (Michael D. Hilborn), Last Day of Summer (Doug Orleans), Playing Games (Kevin Jackson-Mead), and Cold Iron (Andrew Plotkin).
- Finalist: Assembling the name of the final location in The Race (Andy Why).
- Finalist: Escaping the tower in Indigo (Emily Short).
- Finalist: Putting out the fire in How Suzy Got Her Powers (David Whyld).
- Best Individual NPC: Grimloft in Cryptozookeeper (Robb Sherwin).
- Finalist: Heather in Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Finalist: The puppy in Beet the Devil (Carolyn VanEseltine).
- Finalist: Zuleika in Taco Fiction (Ryan Veeder).
- Best Individual PC: Mentula Macanus in Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis (Adam Thornton).
- Finalist: Alistair Liddell in Sentencing Mr Liddell (I-K. Huuhtanen).
- Finalist: Mangiasaur in Mangiasaur (DCBSupafly; ADRIFT).
- Finalist: Morgoth, Lord of Darkness in A Comedy of Error Messages (Adam Le Doux).
- Finalist: Nicholas St. John in Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower (C.E.J. Pacian).
- Finalist: Variously-named PC in Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best Implementation: Six (Wade Clarke).
- Finalist: Taco Fiction (Ryan Veeder).
- Finalist: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best Use of Innovation: Kerkerkruip (Victor Gijsbers).
- Finalist: maybe make some change (Aaron A. Reed).
- Finalist: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Best Technological Development: TADS 3.1.
- Finalist: ADRIFT Web Runner.
- Finalist: Hugor.
- Finalist: Vorple.
- Best Supplemental Materials: PDFs and screencast tutorials for Kerkerkruip
- Finalist: Almanac for The Lost Islands of Alabaz
- Finalist: Manual and feelies for Six
- Special Recognition: Zombie Exodus (Jim Dattilo).
- Also called The Choice IF of the Choice-IF Community in the ceremony.
Dates
- The deadline for first-round voting was February 10, 2012, 0:00:00 PST.
- The deadline for second-round voting was March 2, 2012, 0:00:00 PST.
- The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on March 4, 2012, 13:00:00 PST.
Links
- XYZZY Awards. The main site.
- Transcript of the ceremony.
- XYZZY Awards 2011, final round. intfiction.org forum thread giving background on Special Recognition.