First-round XYZZY voting is very widely-distributed: in many categories, the votes are spread across forty or so different games, and which ones end up earning a finalist nomination is often a matter of just a vote or two. Watching the votes come in, it can be really sad to see a game that’s a competitor in several categories, but ends up barely missing out on all of them.<\/p>\n
So, for the first time, here’s the Further Reading list, consisting of games which\u00a0almost<\/em> earned at least one finalist nomination, but barely missed out – the tier of games immediately beneath the finalists in each category.\u00a0The category (or categories) in which this happened aren’t listed.<\/p>\n This shouldn’t be construed as a\u00a0new tier of awards,\u00a0a participation ribbon or anything of the sort; rather, it’s a footnote acknowledging that the year’s worthy or interesting IF does not begin and end at the XYZZY finalist list. Keeping all that in mind: the games.<\/p>\n ANDROMEDA 1983<\/a>\u00a0(Marco Innocenti) First-round XYZZY voting is very widely-distributed: in many categories, the votes are spread across forty or so different games, and which ones end up earning a finalist nomination is often a matter of just a vote or two. Watching the votes come in, it can be really sad to see a game that’s a competitor […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[173],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"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=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe Baker of Shireton<\/a>\u00a0(Hanon Ondricek)
\nBelow<\/a>\u00a0(Chris Gardiner)
\nBeneath Floes<\/a>\u00a0(Kevin Snow, Pinnguaq)<\/span>
\nEmily is Away<\/a>\u00a0(Kyle Seeley)
\nEther<\/a>\u00a0(MathBrush)
\nFalse Mavis<\/a>\u00a0(Ted Casaubon)
\nFinal Exam<\/a>\u00a0(Jack Whitham)
\nFeu du Joie<\/a>\u00a0(A. Johanna DeNiro)
\nThe Island of Doctor Wooby<\/a>\u00a0(Ryan Veeder)
\nScarlet Sails<\/a>\u00a0(Felicity Banks)
\nSix Gray Rats Crawl Up The Pillow<\/a>\u00a0(Caleb Wilson)
\nA Trial<\/a>\u00a0(B Minus Seven)
\nTo Burn In Memory<\/a>\u00a0(Orihaus)
\nWhen The Land Goes Under the Water<\/a>\u00a0(Bruno Dias)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"