XYZZY Awards 2012

XYZZY Awards 2012
Competition
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Part of series	XYZZY Awards
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IFDB series page	Series
Total entries
Results
Winner: Best Game	Counterfeit Monkey
Winner: Best Implementation	Counterfeit Monkey
Winner: Best Individual PC	Counterfeit Monkey
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	Bigger Than You Think
Winner: Best NPCs	Guilded Youth
Winner: Best Puzzles	Counterfeit Monkey
Winner: Best Setting	Counterfeit Monkey
Winner: Best Story	Howling dogs
Winner: Best Supplemental Materials	Muggle Studies
Winner: Best Use of Innovation	First Draft of the Revolution
Winner: Best Writing	Howling dogs
Finalist: Best Game	Andromeda Apocalypse
Finalist: Best Game	Bee
Finalist: Best Game	Howling dogs
Finalist: Best Implementation	Andromeda Apocalypse
Finalist: Best Implementation	Speculative Fiction
Finalist: Best Implementation	Sunday Afternoon
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Andromeda Dreaming
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Speculative Fiction
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Olivia's Orphanorium
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Sunday Afternoon
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	A Killer Headache
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Shuffling Around
Finalist: Best NPCs	Andromeda Dreaming
Finalist: Best NPCs	The Statue Got Me High
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Bigger Than You Think
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Dinner Bell
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Endless, Nameless
Finalist: Best Puzzles	In a Manor of Speaking
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Shuffling Around
Finalist: Best Setting	Changes
Finalist: Best Setting	Howling dogs
Finalist: Best Story	Changes
Finalist: Best Story	Eurydice
Finalist: Best Story	First Draft of the Revolution
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Counterfeit Monkey
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Guilded Youth
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Howling dogs
Finalist: Best Writing	Bee
Finalist: Best Writing	Dinner Bell
Finalist: Best Writing	Eurydice
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2012 Awards Winners

• Best Game: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
• Best Writing: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
• Best Story: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
• Best Setting: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
• Best Puzzles: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
• Best NPCs: Guilded Youth (Jim Munroe, Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Surviving the fall in Bigger Than You Think (Andrew Plotkin, Glulx).
• Best Individual NPC: New Rat City from rat chaos (J Chastain, Twine).
• Best Individual PC: Alexandra from Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
• Best Implementation: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
• Best Use of Innovation: First Draft of the Revolution (Emily Short, Liza Daly and Inkle).
• Best Technological Development: Vorple for Inform 7 (Juhana Leinonen).
• Best Supplemental Materials: Feelies for Muggle Studies (M. Flourish Klink, Glulx.)

2012 XYZZY Awards Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Andromeda Apocalypse (Marco Innocenti, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Bee (Emily Short, Varytale).
  • Finalist: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine)

• Best Writing: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
  • Finalist: Bee (Emily Short, Varytale).
  • Finalist: Dinner Bell (Jenni Polodna, Z-code).
  • Finalist: Eurydice (Anonymous, Z-code).

• Best Story: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).
  • Finalist: Changes (David Given, Z-code).
  • Finalist: Eurydice (Anonymous, Z-code).
  • Finalist: First Draft of the Revolution

• Best Setting: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Changes (David Given, Z-code).
  • Finalist: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine)
  • Finalist: Zero Summer (Gordon Levine, Tucker Nelson & Becca Noe, StoryNexus).

• Best Puzzles: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Bigger Than You Think (Andrew Plotkin, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Dinner Bell (Jenni Polodna, Z-code).
  • Finalist: Endless, Nameless (Adam Cadre, Z-code).
  • Finalist: In a Manor of Speaking (Hulk Handsome, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Shuffling Around (Andrew Schultz, Glulx).

• Best NPCs: Guilded Youth (Jim Munroe, Z-code).
  • Finalist: Andromeda Dreaming (Joey Jones, Glulx).
  • Finalist: The Statue Got Me High (Ryan Veeder, Z-code).

• Best Individual Puzzle: Surviving the fall in Bigger Than You Think (Andrew Plotkin, Glulx).
  • Finalist: The hold-all in A Killer Headache (Mike Ciul, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Making a taco in Shuffling Around (Andrew Schultz, Glulx).

• Best Individual NPC: New Rat City from rat chaos (J Chastain, Twine).
  • Finalist: Kadro from Andromeda Dreaming (Joey Jones, Glulx).
  • Finalist: W.D. from Speculative Fiction (Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack, Z-code).

• Best Individual PC: Alexandra from Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Olivia from Olivia's Orphanorium (Sam Kabo Ashwell, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Hector Conrad from Sunday Afternoon (Christopher Huang, Z-code).

• Best Implementation: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Andromeda Apocalypse (Marco Innocenti, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Speculative Fiction (Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack, Z-code).
  • Finalist: Sunday Afternoon (Christopher Huang, Z-code).

• Best Use of Innovation: First Draft of the Revolution (Emily Short, Liza Daly and Inkle).
  • Finalist: Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short, Glulx).
  • Finalist: Guilded Youth (Jim Munroe, Z-code).
  • Finalist: howling dogs (Porpentine, Twine).

• Best Technological Development: Vorple for Inform 7.
  • Finalist: Playfic
  • Finalist: Quest web editor
  • Finalist: StoryNexus

• Best Supplemental Materials: Feelies for Muggle Studies (M. Flourish Klink, Glulx.)
  • Finalist: The covers for Cover Stories
  • Finalist: CYPHER website and materials
  • Finalist: Marco Innocenti's cover art for the Andromeda games

Dates

• The deadline for first-round voting was April 15, 2013, 0:00:00 PDT.
• The deadline for second-round voting was May 7, 2013, 0:00:00 PDT.
• The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on May 11, 2013, 12:00:00 PDT.

Links

• XYZZY Awards. The main site.
• XYZZY Awards 2012 nominees. Currently an unofficial draft report, by David Welbourn, of all the 2012 games and where to find out more about them.

Reviews

• The Pseudo-Official XYZZY Awards Reviews, 2012 Edition.