The main event of the 2015 XYZZYs is complete for this year. And the winners are…<\/p>\n
Best Game:\u00a0Birdland<\/a> (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/strong> Best Writing:\u00a0Birdland<\/a> (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/strong> Best Story:\u00a0Birdland<\/a> (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/strong> Best Setting:\u00a0Sunless Sea<\/a> (Failbetter Games)<\/strong> Best Puzzles:\u00a0Sub Rosa<\/a> (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)<\/strong> Best NPCs:\u00a0Birdland<\/a> (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/strong> Best Individual Puzzle:\u00a0Understanding how the RPS cannon works in Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!<\/a> (Steph Cherrywell)<\/strong> Best Individual NPC:\u00a0Bell Park in Birdland<\/a> (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/strong> Best Individual PC:\u00a0Bridget in Birdland<\/a> (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/strong> Best Implementation:\u00a0Midnight. Swordfight.<\/a> (Chandler Groover)<\/strong> Best Use of Innovation:\u00a0Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory<\/a> (Katherine Morayati)<\/strong> Best Technological Development:\u00a0Raconteur (Bruno Dias)<\/strong><\/p>\n Best Use of Multimedia:\u00a0Secret Agent Cinder<\/a> (Emily Ryan)<\/strong> The main event of the 2015 XYZZYs is complete for this year. And the winners are… Best Game:\u00a0Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy) Finalist: Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell) Finalist:\u00a0Hollywood Visionary (Aaron A. Reed) Finalist:\u00a0Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover) Finalist:\u00a0SPY INTRIGUE (furkle) Best Writing:\u00a0Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy) Finalist:\u00a0Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati) Finalist:\u00a0Midnight. Swordfight. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=481"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":482,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481\/revisions\/482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nFinalist:<\/em> Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!<\/a> (Steph Cherrywell)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Hollywood Visionary<\/a> (Aaron A. Reed)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Midnight. Swordfight.<\/a> (Chandler Groover)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>SPY INTRIGUE<\/a> (furkle)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory<\/a> (Katherine Morayati)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Midnight. Swordfight.<\/a> (Chandler Groover)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>SPY INTRIGUE<\/a> (furkle)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Arcane Intern (Unpaid)<\/a> (Astrid Dalmady)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Cape<\/a> (Bruno Dias)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Map<\/a> (Ade McT)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Beautiful Dreamer<\/a> (S. Woodson)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Chlorophyll<\/a> (Steph Cherrywell)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Neon Haze<\/a> (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Sub Rosa<\/a> (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Summit<\/a> (Phantom Williams)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!<\/a> (Steph Cherrywell)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Chlorophyll<\/a> (Steph Cherrywell)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Oppositely Opal<\/a> (Buster Hudson)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Scroll Thief<\/a> (Daniel M. Stelzer)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Toby’s Nose<\/a> (Chandler Groover)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!<\/a> (Steph Cherrywell)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Hollywood Visionary<\/a> (Aaron A. Reed)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Midnight. Swordfight.<\/a> (Chandler Groover)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Nowhere Near Single<\/a> (kaleidofish)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Catching the fairy in Oppositely Opal<\/a> (Buster Hudson)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>The Hard Puzzle in Hard Puzzle<\/a> (Ade McT)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Identifying the murderer in Toby’s Nose<\/a> (Chandler Groover)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>The skull in Sub Rosa<\/a> (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Dmitri in Midnight. Swordfight.<\/a> (Chandler Groover)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Hana in Hana Feels<\/a> (Gavin Inglis)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Winter Storm Draco in Winter Storm Draco<\/a> (Ryan Veeder)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Martin Voigt in Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire – Chapter 1: the Awakening<\/a> (Marco Vallarino)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Opal in Oppositely Opal<\/a> (Buster Hudson)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Toby in Toby’s Nose<\/a> (Chandler Groover)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory<\/a> (Katherine Morayati)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Aspel<\/a> (Emily Short)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Midnight. Swordfight.<\/a> (Chandler Groover)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>SPY INTRIGUE<\/a> (furkle)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Sunless Sea<\/a> (Failbetter Games)<\/p>\n
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Sorcery! 3<\/a> (Steve Jackson, inkle)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Summit<\/a> (Phantom Williams)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>Sunless Sea<\/a> (Failbetter Games)
\nFinalist:\u00a0<\/em>We Know the Devil<\/a> (Aevee Bee)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"