XYZZY Awards 2015

XYZZY Awards 2015
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Browse the XYZZY Awards either by year:

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Or by category:

• Best Game | Best Writing | Best Story | Best Setting | Best Puzzles | Best NPCs | Best Individual Puzzle | Best Individual NPC | Best Individual PC | Best Use of Medium (1997–2009) | Best Implementation (2010–) | Best Use of Innovation (2010–) | Best Technological Development (2010–) | Best Supplemental Materials (2010–2013) | Best Use of Multimedia (2014–) | Other awards

See also:

• Statistics

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.

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