XYZZY Awards 2015

XYZZY Awards 2015
Competition
Frequency
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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	Birdland
Winner: Best Implementation	Midnight. Swordfight.
Winner: Best Individual NPC	Birdland
Winner: Best Individual PC	Birdland
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!
Winner: Best NPCs	Birdland
Winner: Best Puzzles	Sub Rosa
Winner: Best Setting	Sunless Sea
Winner: Best Story	Birdland
Winner: Best Use of Innovation	Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory
Winner: Best Use of Multimedia	Secret Agent Cinder
Winner: Best Writing	Birdland
Finalist: Best Game	Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!
Finalist: Best Game	Hollywood Visionary
Finalist: Best Game	Midnight. Swordfight.
Finalist: Best Game	SPY INTRIGUE
Finalist: Best Implementation	Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Hana Feels
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Midnight. Swordfight.
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Winter Storm Draco
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 1: The Awakening
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Oppositely Opal
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Toby's Nose
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Hard Puzzle
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Oppositely Opal
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Sub Rosa
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Toby's Nose
Finalist: Best NPCs	Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!
Finalist: Best NPCs	Hollywood Visionary
Finalist: Best NPCs	Midnight. Swordfight.
Finalist: Best NPCs	Nowhere Near Single
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Chlorophyll
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Oppositely Opal
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Scroll Thief
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Toby's Nose
Finalist: Best Setting	Beautiful Dreamer (by Woodson)
Finalist: Best Setting	Chlorophyll
Finalist: Best Setting	Neon Haze
Finalist: Best Setting	Sub Rosa
Finalist: Best Setting	Summit
Finalist: Best Story	Arcane Intern (Unpaid)
Finalist: Best Story	Cape
Finalist: Best Story	Map (by Ade)
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Aspel
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Midnight. Swordfight.
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	SPY INTRIGUE
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Sunless Sea
Finalist: Best Use of Multimedia	Sorcery! 3
Finalist: Best Use of Multimedia	Summit
Finalist: Best Use of Multimedia	Sunless Sea
Finalist: Best Use of Multimedia	We Know the Devil
Finalist: Best Writing	Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory
Finalist: Best Writing	Midnight. Swordfight.
Finalist: Best Writing	SPY INTRIGUE
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The XYZZY Awards 2015 are organized by Sam Kabo Ashwell. This time a new approach is being tried for first-round voting: voters may select two games per category instead of just one.

Dates

• May 1, 2016: Deadline for first-round voting.
• May 20, 2016: Deadline for second-round voting.
• May 28, 2016: Online award ceremony on ifMUD.

2015 XYZZY Awards Winners

• Best Game: Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; 01-Oct-2015; Web browser).
• Best Writing: Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; 01-Oct-2015; Web browser).
• Best Story: Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; 01-Oct-2015; Web browser).
• Best Setting: Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games; 06-Feb-2015; StoryNexus).
• Best Puzzles: Sub Rosa (Melvin Rangasamy and Joey Jones; 01-Oct-2015; Glulx).
• Best NPCs: Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; 01-Oct-2015; Web browser).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Understanding how the RPS cannon works in Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell; 01-Oct-2015; Glulx).
• Best Individual NPC: Bell Park in Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; 01-Oct-2015; Web browser).
• Best Individual PC: Bridget in Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy; 01-Oct-2015; Web browser).
• Best Implementation: Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover; 01-Oct-2015; Glulx).
• Best Use of Innovation: Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati; 01-Oct-2015; Glulx).
• Best Technological Development: Raconteur (Bruno Dias).
• Best Use of Multimedia: Secret Agent Cinder (Emily Ryan; 05-Jun-2015; Web browser).

2015 XYZZY Awards Winners and Finalists

• Best Game:
  • Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
  • Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)
  • Hollywood Visionary (Aaron A. Reed)
  • Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)
  • SPY INTRIGUE (furkle)

• Best Writing:
  • Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
  • Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati)
  • Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)
  • SPY INTRIGUE (furkle)

• Best Story:
  • Arcane Intern (Unpaid) (Astrid Dalmady)
  • Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
  • Cape (Bruno Dias)
  • Map (Ade McT)

• Best Setting:
  • Beautiful Dreamer (S. Woodson)
  • Chlorophyll (Steph Cherrywell)
  • Neon Haze (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie)
  • Sub Rosa (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)
  • Summit (Phantom Williams)
  • Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)

• Best Puzzles:
  • Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)
  • Chlorophyll (Steph Cherrywell)
  • Oppositely Opal (Buster Hudson)
  • Scroll Thief (Daniel M. Stelzer)
  • Sub Rosa (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)
  • Toby's Nose (Chandler Groover)

• Best NPCs:
  • Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
  • Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)
  • Hollywood Visionary (Aaron A. Reed)
  • Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)
  • Nowhere Near Single (kaleidofish)

• Best Individual Puzzle:
  • Catching the fairy in Oppositely Opal (Buster Hudson)
  • The Hard Puzzle in Hard Puzzle (Ade McT)
  • Identifying the murderer in Toby's Nose (Chandler Groover)
  • The skull in Sub Rosa (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)
  • Understanding how the RPS cannon works in Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)

• Best Individual NPC:
  • Bell Park in Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
  • Dmitri in Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)
  • Hana in Hana Feels (Gavin Inglis)
  • Winter Storm Draco in Winter Storm Draco (Ryan Veeder)

• Best Individual PC:
  • Bridget in Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
  • Martin Voigt in Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire - Chapter 1: the Awakening (Marco Vallarino)
  • Opal in Oppositely Opal (Buster Hudson)
  • Toby in Toby's Nose (Chandler Groover)

• Best Implementation:
  • Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati)
  • Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)

• Best Use of Innovation:
  • Aspel (Emily Short)
  • Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati)
  • Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)
  • SPY INTRIGUE (furkle)
  • Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)

• Best Technological Development:
  • Raconteur

• Best Use of Multimedia:
  • Secret Agent Cinder (Emily Ryan)
  • Sorcery! 3 (Steve Jackson, inkle)
  • Summit (Phantom Williams)
  • Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)
  • We Know the Devil (Aevee Bee)

Links

• XYZZY Awards site:
  • XYZZY Awards 2015: first-round voting open - April 11, 2016.
  • 2015 XYZZY Awards: final round - May 1, 2016.
• Interactive Fiction Community Forum threads:
  • XYZZY Awards, round 1 - April 11, 2016.
  • XYZZY Awards 2015: finalist round - May 1, 2016.