The results are in for the first round of the 2019 XYZZY Awards. Congratulations to our finalists!

Voting in the second round will be open through September 27th.

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(Anyone may vote, but you are asked not to vote for your own work, or to organise voters to support a particular game or slate thereof.)

Best Game

• Crème de la Crème (Hannah Powell-Smith)
• Skybreak! (William Dooling)
• Turandot (Victor Gijsbers)
• Zozzled (Steph Cherrywell)

Best Writing

• Crème de la Crème (Hannah Powell-Smith)
• The good people (Pseudavid)
• Limerick Heist (Pace Smith)
• Out (Viktor Sobol)
• Speed Demons (Pleroma)
• Turandot (Victor Gijsbers)
• Zozzled (Steph Cherrywell)

Best Story

• Crème de la Crème (Hannah Powell-Smith)
• Dull Grey (Provodnik Games)
• The good people (Pseudavid)
• Heretic’s Hope (G.C. Baccaris)
• The Missing Ring (Felicity Drake)
• Out (Viktor Sobol)
• robotsexpartymurder (Hanon Ondricek)
• Turandot (Victor Gijsbers)
• Zozzled (Steph Cherrywell)

Best Setting

• Additional Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)
• Dull Grey (Provodnik Games)
• Founder’s Mercy (Thomas Insel)
• Heretic’s Hope (G.C. Baccaris)
• Pirateship (Robin Johnson)
• Ryan Veeder’s Authentic Fly Fishing (Ryan Veeder)

Best Puzzles

• Chuk and the Arena (Agnieszka Trzaska)
• Hard Puzzle 4: The Ballad of Bob and Cheryl (Ade McT)
• Pirateship (Robin Johnson)
• Skies Above (Arthur DiBianca)
• Sugarlawn (Mike Spivey)
• Zozzled (Steph Cherrywell)

Best NPCs

• Crème de la Crème (Hannah Powell-Smith)
• Heretic’s Hope (G.C. Baccaris)
• Mental Entertainment (Thomas Hvizdos)
• The Missing Ring (Felicity Drake)
• robotsexpartymurder (Hanon Ondricek)
• Zozzled (Steph Cherrywell)

Best Individual Puzzle

• Finding the good ending in Dull Grey (Provodnik Games)
• Helping Madame Ping Ping with the séance in Zozzled (Steph Cherrywell)
• Inspiring the artist in Zozzled (Steph Cherrywell)

Best Individual NPC

• Kim Kitsuragi in Disco Elysium (ZA/UM)
• The mother in Night Guard / Morning Star (Astrid Dalmady)
• Pontiff Apocrita in Heretic’s Hope (G.C. Baccaris)
• Turandot in Turandot (Victor Gijsbers)

Best Individual PC

• Hazel Greene in Zozzled (Steph Cherrywell)
• Leonora in Night Guard / Morning Star (Astrid Dalmady)
• Sniff Chewpaw in Dungeon Detective 2: Devils and Details (Wonaglot)

Best Implementation

• AI Dungeon (Nick Walton)
• Dull Grey (Provodnik Games)
• Pas De Deux (Linus Åkesson)
• Pirateship (Robin Johnson)
• Ryan Veeder’s Authentic Fly Fishing (Ryan Veeder)
• Skies Above (Arthur DiBianca)
• Sugarlawn (Mike Spivey)

Best Use of Innovation

• AI Dungeon (Nick Walton)
• The Ballroom (Liza Daly)
• Dull Grey (Provodnik Games)
• Flight of the Code Monkeys (Mark C. Marino)
• Heretic’s Hope (G.C. Baccaris)
• Pas De Deux (Linus Åkesson)
• Pirateship (Robin Johnson)
• Ryan Veeder’s Authentic Fly Fishing (Ryan Veeder)

Best Technological Development

• AI Dungeon
• Chapbook
• dMagnetic

Best Use of Multimedia

• Dull Grey (Provodnik Games)
• The good people (Pseudavid)
• Heretic’s Hope (G.C. Baccaris)
• Mushroom Hunt (Polyducks)
• robotsexpartymurder (Hanon Ondricek)
• Wolfsmoon (Marco Innocenti)