XYZZY Awards 2014

XYZZY Awards 2014
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	80 Days
Winner: Best Implementation	Hadean Lands
Winner: Best Puzzles	Hadean Lands
Winner: Best Setting	Hadean Lands
Winner: Best Story	80 Days
Winner: Best Use of Innovation	Hadean Lands
Winner: Best Use of Multimedia	80 Days
Finalist: Best Game	Hadean Lands
Finalist: Best Game	Hunger Daemon
Finalist: Best Game	With Those We Love Alive
Finalist: Best Implementation	Hunger Daemon
Finalist: Best Implementation	With Those We Love Alive
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Monkey and Bear
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Venus Meets Venus
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	With Those We Love Alive
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Creatures Such as We
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Venus Meets Venus
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Fifteen Minutes
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	More
Finalist: Best NPCs	80 Days
Finalist: Best NPCs	Creatures Such as We
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Jacqueline, Jungle Queen!
Finalist: Best Setting	80 Days
Finalist: Best Setting	Invisible Parties
Finalist: Best Setting	With Those We Love Alive
Finalist: Best Story	Eidolon
Finalist: Best Story	Venus Meets Venus
Finalist: Best Story	With Those We Love Alive
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	AlethiCorp
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	An Earth Turning Slowly
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	With Those We Love Alive
Finalist: Best Use of Multimedia	Krypteia
Finalist: Best Use of Multimedia	With Those We Love Alive
Finalist: Best Writing	Eidolon
Finalist: Best Writing	With Those We Love Alive
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Dates

• The deadline for first-round voting was April 5, 2015.
• The deadline for second-round voting was April 25, 2015.
• The online award ceremony was held on ifMUD on April 26, 2015 at 12:00 PDT. Winners were also simultaneously announced on Twitter.

2014 XYZZY Awards Winners

• Best Game: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
• Best Writing: With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
• Best Story: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
• Best Setting: Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
• Best Puzzles: Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
• Best NPCs: Creatures Such as We (Lynnea Glasser; ChoiceScript)
• Best Individual Puzzle: Sequence of time-travel in Fifteen Minutes (Ade McT; Z-code)
• Best Individual NPC: The Empress in With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
• Best Individual PC: the PC in the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
• Best Implementation: Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
• Best Use of Innovation: Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
• Best Technological Development: Inform 7 6L02 and Twine 2.0 (tie).
• Best Use of Multimedia: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)

2014 XYZZY Awards Finalists

• Best Game:
  • 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
  • Choice of Robots (Kevin Gold; ChoiceScript)
  • Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
  • Hunger Daemon (Sean M. Shore; Glulx)
  • With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)

• Best Writing:
  • Eidolon (A.D. Jansen; Web browser)
  • With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)

• Best Story:
  • 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
  • Eidolon (A.D. Jansen; Web browser)
  • the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
  • Venus Meets Venus (kaleidofish; Web browser)
  • With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)

• Best Setting:
  • 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
  • Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
  • Invisible Parties (Sam Kabo Ashwell; Glulx)
  • With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)

• Best Puzzles:
  • Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
  • Jacqueline, Jungle Queen! (Steph Cherrywell; Quest 5)

• Best NPCs:
  • 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
  • Blood & Laurels (Emily Short; iOS)
  • Choice of Robots (Kevin Gold; ChoiceScript)
  • Creatures Such as We (Lynnea Glasser; ChoiceScript)
  • Weird City Interloper (C.E.J. Pacian; Z-code)

• Best Individual Puzzle:
  • Finding the treasure in More (Jason Dyer; Z-code)
  • Sequence of time-travel in Fifteen Minutes (Ade McT; Z-code)

• Best Individual NPC:
  • The Empress in With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)
  • Macy in Venus Meets Venus (kaleidofish; Web browser)
  • The monkey in Monkey and Bear (Carolyn VanEseltine; Glulx, Z-code)
  • Your robot in Choice of Robots (Kevin Gold; ChoiceScript)

• Best Individual PC:
  • Lynn in Venus Meets Venus (kaleidofish; Web browser)
  • Marcus in Blood & Laurels (Emily Short; iOS)
  • the PC in the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
  • Protagonist in Creatures Such as We (Lynnea Glasser; ChoiceScript)

• Best Implementation:
  • Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
  • Hunger Daemon (Sean M. Shore; Glulx)
  • With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)

• Best Use of Innovation:
  • AlethiCorp (Simon Christiansen; Web browser)
  • An Earth Turning Slowly (Mæja Stefánsson; Web browser)
  • Hadean Lands (Andrew Plotkin; Glulx, iOS)
  • With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)

• Best Technological Development:
  • Inform 7 6L02
  • Texture
  • Twine 2

• Best Use of Multimedia:
  • 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth; iOS, Android)
  • Coming Out Simulator 2014 (Nicky Case; Flash)
  • Krypteia (Kateri; Web browser)
  • the uncle who works for nintendo (michael lutz; Web browser)
  • With Those We Love Alive (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie; Web browser)

Links

• XYZZY Awards. The main site. With the announcement.
  • Xyzzymposium 2014 posts.
• Interactive Fiction Community Forum threads:
  • XYZZY Awards 2014: first round - March 15, 2015.