XYZZY Awards 2016

XYZZY Awards 2016
Competition
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Part of series	XYZZY Awards
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Total entries
Results
Winner: Best Game	Superluminal Vagrant Twin
Winner: Best Implementation	Superluminal Vagrant Twin
Winner: Best NPCs	Foo Foo
Winner: Best Story	Foo Foo
Winner: Best Use of Innovation	The Ice-Bound Concordance
Winner: Best Use of Multimedia	The Ice-Bound Concordance
Finalist: Best Game	Foo Foo
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Foo Foo
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Foo Foo
Finalist: Best Setting	Foo Foo
Finalist: Best Use of Innovation	Superluminal Vagrant Twin
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The XYZZY Awards 2016 were organized by Sam Kabo Ashwell.

Dates

• July 4, 2017: Deadline for first-round voting.
• July 21, 2017: Deadline for second-round voting.
• July 23, 2017: Results announced on Twitter.

2016 XYZZY Awards Winners

• Best Game: Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian; 26-Mar-2016; Glulx).
• Best Writing: Take (Katherine Morayati, writing as Amelia Pinnolla; 01-Oct-2016; Glulx).
• Best Story: Foo Foo (Buster Hudson; 06-Apr-2016; Glulx).
• Best Setting: Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady; 01-Oct-2016; Twine).
• Best Puzzles: 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Abigail Corfman; 01-Oct-2016; Twine).
• Best NPCs: Tie
  • Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady; 01-Oct-2016; Twine).
  • Foo Foo (Buster Hudson; 06-Apr-2016; Glulx).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Customizing the robot in The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short; 05-Jun-2016; Glulx).
• Best Individual NPC: The robot in The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short; 05-Jun-2016; Glulx).
• Best Individual PC: BEL/S in Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman; 05-May-2016; Twine).
• Best Implementation: Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian; 26-Mar-2016; Glulx).
• Best Use of Innovation: The Ice-Bound Concordance (Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe; 21-Jan-2016; iOS).
• Best Technological Development: Ink (inkle).
• Best Use of Multimedia: The Ice-Bound Concordance (Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe; 21-Jan-2016; iOS).

2016 XYZZY Awards Finalists

• Best Game
  • Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
  • Detectiveland] (Robin Johnson)
  • Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
  • Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
  • Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian)

• Best Writing
  • 500 Apocalypses (Phantom Williams)
  • Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
  • Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
  • The Queen's Menagerie (Chandler Groover)
  • Stone Harbor (Liza Daly)
  • Take (Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla))

• Best Story
  • Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
  • Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
  • Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
  • Stone Harbor (Liza Daly)
  • Tangaroa Deep (Astrid Dalmady)
  • Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover)

• Best Setting
  • Ariadne in Aeaea (Victor Ojuel)
  • Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
  • Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
  • Tangaroa Deep (Astrid Dalmady)
  • Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover)
  • Worldsmith (Interactive Fables)

• Best Puzzles
  • 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Abigail Corfman)
  • Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
  • Fair (Hanon Ondricek)
  • Inside the Facility (Arthur DiBianca)
  • The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)

• Best NPCs
  • Cactus Blue Motel (Astrid Dalmady)
  • Color the Truth (mathbrush)
  • Fair (Hanon Ondricek)
  • Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)

• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Killing the vampire in 16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds (Abigail Corfman)
  • Sneaking quietly though the house in Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
  • Delivering the metallophilic ice to the Robotics Lab in Inside the Facility (Arthur DiBianca)
  • Customizing the robot in The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
  • Performing the Three Card Trick in Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover)
  • Raise a world to the Galactic Accord (worldbuilding) in Worldsmith (Interactive Fables)

• Best Individual NPC
  • Dr. Sourpuss in Dr. Sourpuss Is Not A Choice-Based Game (P.B. Parjeter)
  • Holly in Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
  • The robot (variously-named) in The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
  • The mirror in Mirror and Queen (Chandler Groover)

• Best Individual PC
  • Good Fairy, Senior Detective in Foo Foo (Buster Hudson)
  • BEL/S in Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
  • Frankie Petrio in Stone Harbor (Liza Daly)
  • Morgan the Magnificent in Three-Card Trick (Chandler Groover)

• Best Implementation
  • Fair (Hanon Ondricek)
  • Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
  • The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
  • Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian)

• Best Use of Innovation
  • Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
  • The Ice-Bound Concordance (Aaron A. Reed, Jacob Garbe)
  • Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
  • The Mary Jane of Tomorrow (Emily Short)
  • Superluminal Vagrant Twin (C.E.J. Pacian)
  • Take (Katherine Morayati (as Amelia Pinnolla))

• Best Technological Development
  • Improv
  • Ink
  • Texture, full release

• Best Use of Multimedia
  • Detectiveland (Robin Johnson)
  • The Ice-Bound Concordance (Aaron A. Reed, Jacob Garbe)
  • Ladykiller in a Bind (Christine Love)
  • Open Sorcery (Abigail Corfman)
  • Worldsmith (Interactive Fables)

Links

• XYZZY Awards site:
  • Awards voting, round 1 - June 19, 2017.
  • XYZZY Awards 2016, finalists and final round - July 5, 2017.
  • The 2016 XYZZY Awards Winners - July 23, 2017.

• Interactive Fiction Community Forum threads:
  • XYZZY Awards 2016, round 1 - June 19, 2017.
  • XYZZY Awards 2016, final round - July 5, 2017.