Congratulations to the finalists!

You can now vote in the final round here. Voting will be closed on April 4th. Full list of finalists below the cut.

Best Game

• Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)
• Horse Master (Tom McHenry)
• Their angelical understanding (Porpentine)
• ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine)

Best Writing

• Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)
• Their angelical understanding (Porpentine)
• You Will Select a Decision (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)

Best Story

• Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)
• Horse Master (Tom McHenry)
• Solarium (Alan DeNiro)
• ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine)

Best Setting

• Choice of the Deathless (Max Gladstone)
• Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)
• Horse Master (Tom McHenry)
• Robin & Orchid (Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim)
• Their angelical understanding (Porpentine)

Best Puzzles

• Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder (Ryan Veeder)
• Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)
• Threediopolis (Andrew Schultz)

Best NPCs

• Bell Park, Youth Detective (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• Choice of the Deathless (Max Gladstone)
• Ollie Ollie Oxen Free (Carolyn VanEseltine)
• ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine)
• Witch’s Girl (Geoff Moore)

Best Individual Puzzle

• creating the meat monster in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)
• Discovering the type of route that works in Threediopolis (Andrew Schultz)
• Earning One Million Dollars in ULTRA BUSINESS TYCOON III (Porpentine)
• getting out of the lab in Chemistry and Physics (Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine)
• Maximising your profit in Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder (Ryan Veeder)
• Three-latch door in Faithful Companion (Matt Weiner)

Best Individual NPC

• -bitmap-zer0- in Bell Park, Youth Detective (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• Captain Verdeterre in Captain Verdeterre’s Plunder (Ryan Veeder)
• Ghost in Faithful Companion (Matt Weiner)
• Mercy in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)
• Your horse in Horse Master (Tom McHenry)

Best Individual PC

• The Aqueosity in Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)

Best Implementation

• Coloratura (Lynnea Glasser)
• Depression Quest (Zoe Quinn, Patrick Lindsey, and Isaac Schankler)
• Robin & Orchid (Ryan Veeder and Emily Boegheim)
• Their angelical understanding (Porpentine)
• Trapped in Time (Simon Christiansen)

Best Use of Innovation

• 18 Cadence (Aaron A. Reed)
• Castle of the Red Prince (C.E.J. Pacian)
• Ex Nihilo (Juhana Leinonen)
• Final Girl (Hanon Ondricek)
• Sorcery! (Steve Jackson and inkle)
• Trapped in Time (Simon Christiansen)

Best Technological Development

• adv3lite
• Twine 1.4
• Versu

Best Supplemental Materials

• Cover in Hill of Souls by Angela Shah
• Depression Quest Trailer
• Graphic environment for 18 Cadence
• The Labyrinth’s Lament (the comic that establishes the setting for companion game The Sixth Sleep)
• Multimedia – Dominique Pamplemouse
• Ship plans for Coloratura

Some explanation is in order for the sole finalist in Best Individual PC. What happened there is that we had a big pile of nominees with one vote apiece, and a single nominee with more votes than all of them put together. Rather than have a giant field of nominees, we elected to declare an outright winner; we think that nomination should mean something in itself.