XYZZY Awards Historical Results

Best Game

• American Angst (m3g1dd0)
• Eat Me (Chandler Groover)
• Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• The Owl Consults (Thomas Mack)
• The Wizard Sniffer (Buster Hudson)

Best Writing

• Absence of Law (mathbrush)
• American Angst (m3g1dd0)
• dripping with the waters of SHEOL (Lady Isak Grozny)
• Eat Me (Chandler Groover)
• Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• Will Not Let Me Go (Stephen Granade)

Best Story

• 1958: Dancing With Fear (Victor Ojuel)
• American Angst (m3g1dd0)
• Harmonia (Liza Daly)
• Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• Will Not Let Me Go (Stephen Granade)
• The Wizard Sniffer (Buster Hudson)

Best Setting

• 1958: Dancing With Fear (Victor Ojuel)
• Absence of Law (mathbrush)
• Eat Me (Chandler Groover)
• Tuuli (Daurmith & Ruber Eaglenest)
• Voyageur (Bruno Dias)

Best Puzzles

• Absence of Law (mathbrush)
• A Beauty Cold and Austere (Mike Spivey)
• Eat Me (Chandler Groover)
• The Owl Consults (Thomas Mack)
• The Wand (Arthur DiBianca)
• The Wizard Sniffer (Buster Hudson)

Best NPCs

• Eat Me (Chandler Groover)
• Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• The Owl Consults (Thomas Mack)
• The Wizard Sniffer (Buster Hudson)

Best Individual Puzzle

• discovering the rest of the game in The Wand (Arthur DiBianca)
• getting past the dragon in The Wizard Sniffer (Buster Hudson)
• getting through the undersea vent in Measureless to Man (Ivan R.)
• Learning the Cycle in The Wand (Arthur DiBianca)
• Milking the cow in Eat Me (Chandler Groover)
• Navigating the swamp in Crocodracula: What Happened to Calvin (Ryan Veeder)

Best Individual NPC

• Anja Kaczmarek in Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• Kaz Kaczmarek in Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• The narrator in Eat Me (Chandler Groover)
• Olivia Kwon in Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• Squire Tuck in The Wizard Sniffer (Buster Hudson)

Best Individual PC

• Amelia Derringer in The Owl Consults (Thomas Mack)
• Fred Strickland in Will Not Let Me Go (Stephen Granade)
• Kareene Veet in Word of the Day (Richard Otter)
• Lev/Lyubov in dripping with the waters of SHEOL (Lady Isak Grozny)
• Nadia Nazari in Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• Salomé Vélez in 1958: Dancing With Fear (Victor Ojuel)

Best Implementation

• Absence of Law (mathbrush)
• Eat Me (Chandler Groover)
• Harmonia (Liza Daly)
• Seedship (John Ayliff)
• Thaumistry: In Charm's Way (Bob Bates)

Best Use of Innovation

• 10pm (litrouke)
• Harmonia (Liza Daly)
• Unit 322 (Disambiguation) (Jonny Muir)
• Voyageur (Bruno Dias)

Best Technological Development

• Vorple for Glulx

Best Use of Multimedia

• 10pm (litrouke)
• Absence of Law (mathbrush)
• Harmonia (Liza Daly)
• Known Unknowns (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)
• The Rats in the Bulkheads (Bruno Dias)
• Salt (Gareth Damian Martin)