XYZZY Awards 2013

XYZZY Awards 2013
Competition
Frequency
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Part of series	XYZZY Awards
Website	[http:// ]
Organiser
IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries
Results
Winner: Best Game	Coloratura
Winner: Best Implementation	Trapped in Time
Winner: Best Individual NPC	Captain Verdeterre's Plunder
Winner: Best Individual PC	Coloratura
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	Coloratura
Winner: Best NPCs	Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
Winner: Best Puzzles	Coloratura
Winner: Best Setting	Robin & Orchid
Winner: Best Story	Solarium
Winner: Best Supplemental Materials	Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings!
Winner: Best Use of Innovation	18 Cadence
Winner: Best Writing	Their angelical understanding
Finalist: Best Game	Horse Master
Finalist: Best Game	Their angelical understanding
Finalist: Best Game	ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III
Finalist: Best Implementation	Coloratura
Finalist: Best Implementation	Depression Quest
Finalist: Best Implementation	Robin & Orchid
Finalist: Best Implementation	Their angelical understanding
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Bell Park, Youth Detective
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Coloratura
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Faithful Companion
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Horse Master
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Captain Verdeterre's Plunder
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Chemistry and Physics
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Faithful Companion
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Threediopolis
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III
Finalist: Best NPCs	Bell Park, Youth Detective
Finalist: Best NPCs	Choice of the Deathless
Finalist: Best NPCs	ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III
Finalist: Best NPCs	Witch's Girl
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Captain Verdeterre's Plunder
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Threediopolis
Finalist: Best Setting	Choice of the Deathless
Finalist: Best Setting	Coloratura
Finalist: Best Setting	Horse Master
Finalist: Best Setting	Their angelical understanding
Finalist: Best Story	Coloratura
Finalist: Best Story	Horse Master
Finalist: Best Story	ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III
Finalist: Best Supplemental Materials	18 Cadence
Finalist: Best Supplemental Materials	Coloratura
Finalist: Best Supplemental Materials	Depression Quest
Finalist: Best Supplemental Materials	Hill of Souls
Finalist: Best Supplemental Materials	The Sixth Sleep
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Castle of the Red Prince
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Ex Nihilo
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Final Girl
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Sorcery!
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Trapped in Time
Finalist: Best Writing	Coloratura
Finalist: Best Writing	You Will Select a Decision
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Dates

• The deadline for first-round voting is March 9, 2014.
• The deadline for second-round voting is April 4, 2014.
• The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on April 6, 2014, 1:30 PM Pacific time.

2013 XYZZY Awards Winners

• Best Game: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
• Best Writing: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)
• Best Story: Solarium (Alan DeNiro; Web browser)
• Best Setting: Robin & Orchid (Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim; Glulx)
• Best Puzzles: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
• Best NPCs: Ollie Ollie Oxen Free (Carolyn VanEseltine; Glulx)
• Best Individual Puzzle: Creating the meat monster in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
• Best Individual NPC: Captain Verdeterre in Captain Verdeterre's Plunder (Ryan Veeder; Glulx)
• Best Individual PC: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
• Best Implementation: Trapped in Time (Simon Christiansen; PDF)
• Best Use of Innovation: 18 Cadence (Aaron A. Reed; iPad and Web browser)
• Best Technological Development: Twine 1.4.
• Best Supplemental Materials: Multimedia in Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! (Dietrich Squinkifer, writing as Deirdra Kiai; Web browser and MS-Windows, Macintosh, and iPad)

2013 XYZZY Awards Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Horse Master (Tom McHenry; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Writing: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: You Will Select a Decision (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; Web browser)

• Best Story: Solarium (Alan DeNiro; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Horse Master (Tom McHenry; Web browser)
  • Finalist: ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Setting: Robin & Orchid (Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Choice of the Deathless (Max Gladstone; eReader)
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Horse Master (Tom McHenry; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Puzzles: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Captain Verdeterre's Plunder (Ryan Veeder; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Threediopolis (Andrew Schultz; Z-code)

• Best NPCs: Ollie Ollie Oxen Free (Carolyn VanEseltine; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Bell Park, Youth Detective (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Choice of the Deathless (Max Gladstone; eReader)
  • Finalist: ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Witch's Girl (Geoff Moore as "Mostly Useless"; Web browser)

• Best Individual Puzzle: Creating the meat monster in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Maximizing your profit in Captain Verdeterre's Plunder (Ryan Veeder; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Getting out of the lab in Chemistry and Physics (Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Three-latch door in Faithful Companion (Matt Weiner; Z-code)
  • Finalist: Discovering the type of route that works in Threediopolis (Andrew Schultz; Z-code)
  • Finalist: Earning one million dollars in ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Individual NPC: Captain Verdeterre in Captain Verdeterre's Plunder (Ryan Veeder; Glulx)
  • Finalist: -bitmap-zer0- in Bell Park, Youth Detective (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Mercy in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: the ghost in Faithful Companion (Matt Weiner; Z-code)
  • Finalist: Your horse in Horse Master (Tom McHenry; Web browser)

• Best Individual PC: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)

• Best Implementation: Trapped in Time (Simon Christiansen; PDF)
  • Finalist: Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Depression Quest (Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Robin & Orchid (Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Their angelical understanding (Porpentine; Web browser)

• Best Use of Innovation: 18 Cadence (Aaron A. Reed; iPad and Web browser)
  • Finalist: Castle of the Red Prince (C.E.J. Pacian; Z-code)
  • Finalist: Ex Nihilo (Juhana Leinonen; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Final Girl (Hanon Ondricek; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Sorcery! (Steve Jackson and inkle; smartphone)
  • Finalist: Trapped in Time (Simon Christiansen; PDF)

• Best Technological Development: Twine 1.4.
  • Finalist: adv3lite.
  • Finalist: Versu.

• Best Supplemental Materials: Multimedia in Dominique Pamplemousse - It's All Over Once The Fat Lady Sings! (Dietrich Squinkifer, writing as Deirdra Kiai; Web browser and MS-Windows, Macintosh, and iPad)
  • Finalist: Graphic environment in 18 Cadence (Aaron A. Reed; iPad and Web browser)
  • Finalist: Ship plans in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser; Glulx)
  • Finalist: Trailer in Depression Quest (Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler; Web browser)
  • Finalist: Cover art in Hill of Souls (Angela Shah; Z-code)
  • Finalist: The Labyrinth's Lament (the comic that establishes the setting) in The Sixth Sleep (Sloane Leong; Web browser)

Links

• XYZZY Awards. The main site. With the results and a transcript of the ceremony.
• 2013 XYZZY Awards - at IFDB.
• Interactive Fiction Community Forum threads:
  • XYZZY Awards 2013: first round open - February 17, 2014.
  • XYZZY Awards, Second Round / FLAWLESS VICTORY - March 10, 2014.
  • XYZZY Awards ceremony - March 14, 2014.

Reviews

• The Pseudo-Official XYZZY Awards Reviews, 2013 Edition.