XYZZY Awards 2011

XYZZY Awards 2011
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	Cryptozookeeper
Winner: Best Implementation	Six
Winner: Best Individual NPC	Cryptozookeeper
Winner: Best Individual PC	Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	Cold Iron
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	Last Day of Summer
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	Playing Games
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M
Winner: Best NPCs	Cryptozookeeper
Winner: Best Puzzles	PataNoir
Winner: Best Setting	Cryptozookeeper
Winner: Best Story	The Play
Winner: Best Supplemental Materials	Kerkerkruip
Winner: Best Use of Innovation	Kerkerkruip
Winner: Best Writing	Cryptozookeeper
Winner: Special Recognition	Zombie Exodus
Winner: Best Technological Development	TADS 3 (TADS 3.1)
Finalist: Best Game	Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
Finalist: Best Game	Six
Finalist: Best Game	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Implementation	Taco Fiction
Finalist: Best Implementation	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Beet the Devil
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Taco Fiction
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Individual PC	A Comedy of Error Messages
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Love, Hate and the Mysterious Ocean Tower
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Mangiasaur
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Sentencing Mr Liddell
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	How Suzy Got Her Powers
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Indigo
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	The Race
Finalist: Best NPCs	Cana According To Micah
Finalist: Best NPCs	Six
Finalist: Best NPCs	The Play
Finalist: Best NPCs	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
Finalist: Best Puzzles	The Race
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Setting	Marine Raider
Finalist: Best Setting	Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
Finalist: Best Setting	Six
Finalist: Best Setting	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Story	Bonehead
Finalist: Best Story	Cryptozookeeper
Finalist: Best Story	The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M
Finalist: Best Story	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Supplemental Materials	Six
Finalist: Best Supplemental Materials	The Lost Islands of Alabaz
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Maybe make some change
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Writing	Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
Finalist: Best Writing	Taco Fiction
Finalist: Best Writing	Zombie Exodus
Finalist: Best Technological Development	ADRIFT WebRunner
Finalist: Best Technological Development	Hugor
Finalist: Best Technological Development	Vorple
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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 WebRunner.
  • 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.

Reviews

• The First Annual Pseudo-Official XYZZY Awards Review.