XYZZY Awards Historical Results

Best Game

• Andromeda Apocalypse (Marco Innocenti)
• Bee (Emily Short)
• Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short)
• howling dogs (Porpentine)

Best Writing

• Bee (Emily Short)
• Dinner Bell (Jenni Polodna)
• Eurydice (Anonymous)
• howling dogs (Porpentine)

Best Story

• Changes (David Given)
• Eurydice (Anonymous)
• First Draft of the Revolution (Emily Short (author), Liza Daly (co-coder), and Inkle Studios (co-coder))
• howling dogs (Porpentine)

Best Setting

• Changes (David Given)
• Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short)
• howling dogs (Porpentine)
• Zero Summer (Gordon Levine, Tucker Nelson, and Becca Noe)

Best Puzzles

• Bigger Than You Think (Andrew Plotkin)
• Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short)
• Dinner Bell (Jenni Polodna)
• Endless, Nameless (Adam Cadre)
• In a Manor of Speaking (Hulk Handsome)
• Shuffling Around (Andrew Schultz)

Best NPCs

• Andromeda Dreaming (Joey Jones)
• Guilded Youth (Jim Munroe)
• The Statue Got Me High (Ryan Veeder)

Best Individual Puzzle

• the hold-all in A Killer Headache (Mike Ciul)
• making a taco in Shuffling Around (Andrew Schultz)
• Surviving the fall in Bigger Than You Think (Andrew Plotkin)

Best Individual NPC

• Kadro in Andromeda Dreaming (Joey Jones)
• New Rat City in rat chaos (J. Chastain)
• W.D. in Speculative Fiction (Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack)

Best Individual PC

• Alexandra in Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short)
• Hector in Sunday Afternoon (Christopher Huang)
• Olivia in Olivia's Orphanorium (Sam Kabo Ashwell)

Best Implementation

• Andromeda Apocalypse (Marco Innocenti)
• Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short)
• Speculative Fiction (Diane Christoforo and Thomas Mack)
• Sunday Afternoon (Christopher Huang)

Best Use of Innovation

• Counterfeit Monkey (Emily Short)
• First Draft of the Revolution (Emily Short (author), Liza Daly (co-coder), and Inkle Studios (co-coder))
• Guilded Youth (Jim Munroe)
• howling dogs (Porpentine)

Best Technological Development

• Playfic
• Quest web editor
• StoryNexus
• Vorple for Inform 7

Best Supplemental Materials

• The covers for Cover Stories
• CYPHER website and other materials
• Feelies for Muggle Studies
• Marco's cover art for all the Andromeda games