XYZZY Awards 2021

XYZZY Awards 2021
Competition
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Part of series	XYZZY Awards
Website	https://xyzzyawards.org/
Organiser	Sam Kabo Ashwell
IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries
Results
Winner: Best Game	What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed
Winner: Best Implementation (tie)	The Libonotus Cup
Winner: Best Implementation (tie)	The Weight of a Soul
Winner: Best Individual NPC	Sting (Liz)
Winner: Best Individual PC	The Weight of a Soul (Marid)
Winner: Best Individual Puzzle	The Libonotus Cup (Hair Swap)
Winner: Best NPCs	Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires
Winner: Best Puzzles	Grooverland
Winner: Best Setting	The Weight of a Soul
Winner: Best Story	What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed
Winner: Best Technological Development	Gruescript
Winner: Best Use of Innovation (tie)	4x4 Archipelago
Winner: Best Use of Innovation (tie)	Excalibur (by Guest)
Winner: Best Use of Innovation (tie)	The Last Night of Alexisgrad
Winner: Best Use of Multimedia	Fish & Dagger
Winner: Best Writing	Sting
Finalist: Best Implementation	Dr Horror's House of Terror
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Dr Horror's House of Terror
Finalist: Best Writing	Dr Horror's House of Terror
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The XYZZY Awards 2021 were organized by Sam Kabo Ashwell.

Dates

• 21-Nov-2022: First round voting opens (announcement).
• 3-Dec-2022: Last day of first round voting. "First-round voting will remain open through December 3."
• 7-Dec-2022: Second round voting opens (announcement).
• 17-Dec-2022: Last day of second round voting.
• 22-Dec-2022: Final results announced (announcement).

2021 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)
• Best Writing: Sting (Mike Russo)
• Best Story: What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)
• Best Setting: The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)
• Best Puzzles: Grooverland (Mathbrush)
• Best NPCs: Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires (E. Joyce and N. Cormier)
• Best Individual Puzzle: Hair Swap in The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
• Best Individual NPC: Liz in Sting (Mike Russo)
• Best Individual PC: Marid in The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)
• Best Implementation (tie): The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg) and The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)
• Best Use of Innovation (tie): 4x4 Archipelago (Agnieszka Trzaska) and Excalibur (J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman) and The Last Night of Alexisgrad (Milo van Mesdag)
• Best Technological Development: Gruescript (Robin Johnson)
• Best Use of Multimedia: Fish & Dagger (grave snail games)

2021 XYZZY Awards Finalists

• Best Game
  • What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)
  • And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
  • The Best Man (Stephen Bond)
  • Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
  • The Faeries Of Haelstowne (Christopher Merriner)
  • The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
  • The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)
• Best Writing
  • Sting (Mike Russo)
  • The Best Man (Stephen Bond)
  • Dr Horror's House of Terror (Ade McT)
  • What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)
• Best Story
  • What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)
  • And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
  • The Best Man (Stephen Bond)
  • Excalibur (J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman)
  • Off-Season at the Dream Factory (B.J. Best)
• Best Setting
  • The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)
  • Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
  • The Faeries Of Haelstowne (Christopher Merriner)
  • The Golden Heist (George Lockett and Rob Thorman)
• Best Puzzles
  • Grooverland (Mathbrush)
  • Dr Horror's House of Terror (Ade McT)
  • Gruesome (Robin Johnson)
  • The Song of the Mockingbird (Mike Carletta)
  • What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)
• Best NPCs
  • Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires (E. Joyce and N. Cormier)
  • And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
  • Mean Mother Trucker (Bitter Karella)
• Best Individual Puzzle
  • Hair Swap in The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
  • Dead Armadillo in Mean Mother Trucker (Bitter Karella)
  • The moveable stage with the laserfight in Grooverland (Mathbrush)
  • The statuette puzzle in The Golden Heist (George Lockett and Rob Thorman)
• Best Individual NPC
  • Liz in Sting (Mike Russo)
  • Cécile in The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
  • The Green Knight in At King Arthur's Christmas Feast (Travis Moy)
  • Melpomene in Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires (E. Joyce and N. Cormier)
  • Ottoline in The Faeries Of Haelstowne (Christopher Merriner)
  • Riley in And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
  • Skeleton in Gruesome (Robin Johnson)
  • The Witch in And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
• Best Individual PC
  • Marid in The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)
  • Aiden Tunney The Best Man (Stephen Bond)
  • Big Ester in Mean Mother Trucker (Bitter Karella)
  • Emerson in And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
• Best Implementation
  • Tie: The Libonotus Cup (Nils Fagerburg)
  • Tie: The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong)
  • And Then You Come to a House Not Unlike the Previous One (B.J. Best)
  • Dr Horror's House of Terror (Ade McT)
  • Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
  • Open Sorcery: Sea++ (Abigail Corfman)
• Best Use of Innovation
  • Tie: 4x4 Archipelago (Agnieszka Trzaska)
  • Tie: Excalibur (J. J. Guest, G. C. Baccaris, and Duncan Bowsman)
  • Tie: The Last Night of Alexisgrad (Milo van Mesdag)
  • Even Some More Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
  • Fish & Dagger (grave snail games)
  • What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker)
• Best Technological Development
  • FrankenDrift
  • Gruescript
• Best Use of Multimedia
  • Fish & Dagger (grave snail games)
  • Cygnet Committee (P.B. Parjeter)
  • Off-Season at the Dream Factory (B.J. Best)
  • [PYG]MALION* (C.J.)

Links

• XYZZY Awards 2021 - at IFDB.