{"id":488,"date":"2017-06-12T21:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-13T04:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=488"},"modified":"2017-06-13T09:07:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-13T16:07:11","slug":"2016-xyzzy-awards-eligible-and-ineligible-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=488","title":{"rendered":"2016 XYZZY Awards: eligible and ineligible games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Very, very belatedly (mea culpa), here are the\u00a0works of interactive fiction eligible for consideration in the 2016 XYZZY Awards &#8211; and the IFDB entries which aren&#8217;t eligible. (Many thanks to everyone who helped out with this.) If you have last-minute corrections before voting opens, please let me know!<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h3><b>Ineligible<\/b><\/h3>\n<p>Games can be considered ineligible for three reasons:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not released as complete in the year under consideration.\u00a0<\/strong>If a game isn&#8217;t listed as released in 2016, we don&#8217;t consider it. If it\u00a0<em>was<\/em> released in 2016, but it&#8217;s presented as incomplete &#8211; it&#8217;s a demo, or a public beta, an expansion to an existing game or the like &#8211; it becomes eligible in the year that it&#8217;s completed. (We use best judgement, or ask the author, if a game is shown as &#8216;Chapters 1-3 of 4&#8217; or &#8216;Book 1 of the Foo Trilogy.&#8217;)<\/p>\n<p>The Aegis Saga &#8211; Blood<br \/>\nAbgesang: Der Tag der Toten<br \/>\nChoices &#8211; And Their Souls Were Eaten<br \/>\nDragon Ninjas Lettuce &#8211; Preview<br \/>\nDry Winter Alpha 1.0<br \/>\nThe Empress&#8217; Shadow<br \/>\nForest adventures<br \/>\nThe Frequently Deceased<br \/>\nKnown Unknowns<br \/>\nNono and the Rainbow Apple<br \/>\nRule of Three<br \/>\nScarlet Sails (post-comp)<br \/>\nTrapped<br \/>\nThe Waltz that Moved the World<br \/>\nZombienomicon TM Eisegesis<\/p>\n<p>(A point I welcome debate on: in the past we have regarded Exceptional Stories &#8211; narratives released as bonus paid content for Fallen London &#8211; as not constituting distinct works, since they can&#8217;t be played separately from FL. Unless I hear otherwise I&#8217;ll continue this policy, but I don&#8217;t really like either option at present.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Don&#8217;t exist.\u00a0<\/strong>A lot of games are ephemeral &#8211; the author never uploads them to an archive, throws them up on their Dropbox, and Dropbox changes its settings and the game disappears. Or an author deletes all their philome.la games and vanishes into the night. Some IFDB entries are for games that never got published at all, or are written as tests. Regardless: if there&#8217;s no obvious way for the public to get a copy of your game, it&#8217;s not eligible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; by Anonymous<br \/>\nAllison and the Cool New Spaceship Body<br \/>\nARK &#8211; Space Colony<br \/>\nB. Nixon&#8217;s CE<br \/>\nClick Faggot<br \/>\nCOMP1917: Hide and Seek<br \/>\nHello? (Is the world dead?)<br \/>\nI am sorry for destroying the world<br \/>\nJenga<br \/>\nThe man in the white hoodie.<br \/>\nMoving Day<br \/>\nThe Nature of Prejudice<br \/>\nProject Demon Storm<br \/>\nRelatos en la historia: la cuarta especie<br \/>\nShape&#8217;s Quest<br \/>\nThe Skazzin<br \/>\nSpace Australia<br \/>\nSpace station adventure alpha<br \/>\nSub Way<br \/>\nTest<br \/>\nThey Sleep<br \/>\nTreasure Hunt<br \/>\nThe Unknown Alpha testing<br \/>\nThe Veeder<br \/>\nWandering Instants<br \/>\nWIP: Tech-Knuckle-Support<br \/>\nA Work in Progress<\/p>\n<p><strong>Not interactive fiction,\u00a0<\/strong>even by a generous estimate. This is the least-used reason; the XYZZYs aren&#8217;t interested in defining what counts as IF. Sometimes, though, games show up in IFDB which have no focus on text or narrative at all.<\/p>\n<p>Five\u00a0pieces were excluded by this rule, four\u00a0of them non-IF entries in the <a href=\"https:\/\/bluerenga.wordpress.com\/2016\/02\/23\/imaginary-games-from-imaginary-universe-public-release\/\">Imaginary Games from Imaginary Universes<\/a> event, and one a graphical game:<\/p>\n<p>A Game Played By Galaxies<br \/>\nThe Interrogation<br \/>\nOur Bleak-Ass Writing Competition at the Ragged Verge of Spacetime<br \/>\nShadowCast<br \/>\nshadow tactics<\/p>\n<h3>Eligible<\/h3>\n<p>&#8220;Do Not Meddle&#8221;<br \/>\n\u5443\u554a\uff01 Capybara<br \/>\n\u5e74\u7378\u6587\u5b57\u5192\u96aa\u904a\u6232 | The Beast, Nian: A Chinese Text Adventure<br \/>\n\u03ba\u03c1\u03cd\u03bf<br \/>\n111 cm. de aprendizaje<br \/>\n1181<br \/>\n16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds<br \/>\n30 kilogrammes<br \/>\n500 Apocalypses<br \/>\n\u00c0 la basse et au chant<br \/>\nThe Adventures of Rogelio Price<br \/>\nAETERNAL<br \/>\nAether Apeiron: The Zephyra Chronicles<br \/>\nAftermath<br \/>\nAlexander Systems<br \/>\nAll I Do is Dream<br \/>\nAll Your Time-Tossed Selves<br \/>\nThe Anachronist<br \/>\nAnother Day<br \/>\nAntropology<br \/>\nThe Anxious Object<br \/>\nArea 51<br \/>\nAriadne in Aeaea<br \/>\nAsh<br \/>\nAt Anchor<br \/>\nAtrocitron<br \/>\nAwake<br \/>\nThe barbarians are coming!<br \/>\nBarroom Brawl<br \/>\nBecause You&#8217;re Mine<br \/>\nBefore the Storm Hits<br \/>\nBest of Us<br \/>\nThe Black Phone<br \/>\nBlack Rock City<br \/>\nBlood Will Out<br \/>\nBlow Out the Candles<br \/>\nBower of Blood and Thorns<br \/>\nA Brief Introduction To This Game<br \/>\nThe Brigand&#8217;s Story<br \/>\nBring Me A Head!<br \/>\nburning alexandria<br \/>\nBurning Temples<br \/>\nCactus Blue Motel<br \/>\nCampus Row &#8211; Part 1<br \/>\nCancel Cable Or Die Trying<br \/>\nCandle flames in windless air<br \/>\nCannonfire Concerto<br \/>\nCASTLE DOOMENSTEIN<br \/>\nCat Simulator 2016<br \/>\nA Checkered Haunting<br \/>\nCheesed Off!<br \/>\nA Child Without an Eye: Chapter 1<br \/>\nChoice of Alexandria<br \/>\nChoice of the Pirate<br \/>\nChoiceScript Interactive Tutorial<br \/>\nChristy<br \/>\nCinnamon Tea<br \/>\nCity of Dead Leaves<br \/>\nCoffee and Tea<br \/>\nCollision<br \/>\nColor the Truth<br \/>\nCommander<br \/>\nComo la Gente Civilizada | Like Civilized People<br \/>\nCompound Fracture<br \/>\nCongresswolf<br \/>\nConversatio Nihilo<br \/>\nCountdown<br \/>\nCryonix<br \/>\nThe CryptoGame<br \/>\nThe Curious Incident at Blackrock Township<br \/>\nThe Daring Mermaid Expedition<br \/>\nDarkened Dreams<br \/>\nDarkest Words Soldado<br \/>\nDarkiss! Wrath of the Vampire &#8211; Chapter 2: Journey to Hell<br \/>\nThe Day time stood still<br \/>\nDead Man&#8217;s Hill<br \/>\nThe Dead: A Story<br \/>\nDeath at Hamsterley<br \/>\nDeath&#8217;s Tomb<br \/>\nDeeper<br \/>\nThe Depths Of Sarcasm<br \/>\nDer Tag an dem Emilia W. verschwand<br \/>\nDestination Unknown<br \/>\nDetectiveland<br \/>\nDietro l&#8217;Angolo<br \/>\nDistance<br \/>\nDr. Sourpuss Is Not A Choice-Based Game<br \/>\nDraculaland<br \/>\nThe Dragon Diamond<br \/>\nDragon Fate<br \/>\nDream State Zero<br \/>\nDreamland Revised<br \/>\nDude, Where&#8217;s My Scapula?<br \/>\nD\u00fcstere Dickichte 1: Schurken-Alarm!<br \/>\nEdith&#8217;s Cats<br \/>\nEh what drink did you order?<br \/>\nEidolon GGJ2016<br \/>\nEight characters, a number, and a happy ending<br \/>\nEl asesino durmiente<br \/>\nEmber&#8217;s Diary<br \/>\nEnchanted<br \/>\nEndure<br \/>\nENGINE MACHINE: The Deities of Time and Space<br \/>\nEnough<br \/>\nEntropy<br \/>\nEpitaph<br \/>\nEscape | \u9003\u51fa\u53bb: A text adventure game for Chinese learners<br \/>\nEthics AI: Don&#8217;t Freeze Edition<br \/>\nEuphoria<br \/>\nAn Evening at the Ransom Woodingdean Museum House<br \/>\nEvermore<br \/>\nEvertree Inn<br \/>\nEvita Sempai<br \/>\nEyeMoon: Protect My Precious Vilg!!!<br \/>\nFair<br \/>\nFallen \u843d\u8449 Leaves<br \/>\nFamous Baby<br \/>\nFantastic Backflip<br \/>\nFar-Out Space Freaks<br \/>\nFATHERHOOD SIMULATOR 2016<br \/>\nThe Filmmaker<br \/>\nThe Final Labyrinth of King Minos<br \/>\nThe First Day<br \/>\nFlash in the Pan: ADHD Simulator<br \/>\nFlight of the Necrovoyager<br \/>\nFlorida Road Trip<br \/>\nFoo Foo<br \/>\nFour Sittings in a Sinking House<br \/>\nFourdiopolis<br \/>\nFridgetopia<br \/>\nA Friend to Light Your Way<br \/>\nThe Futographer<br \/>\nGaia&#8217;s Web<br \/>\nThe Game of Worlds TOURNAMENT!<br \/>\nGarbage Collection<br \/>\nGet Lost!<br \/>\nThe Ghosts of Christmas ______<br \/>\nA Gift For Mother<br \/>\nA girl and a boy<br \/>\nThe God Device<br \/>\nGoing Home<br \/>\nA Good Wick<br \/>\nGrofast Industries<br \/>\nGuns of Infinity<br \/>\nHand Washing Simulator 20XX<br \/>\nHanferd Goes To Camp<br \/>\nHanferd Meets The Wolfman<br \/>\nHard Puzzle 3 : Origins<br \/>\nHarmonic Time-Bind Ritual Symphony<br \/>\nHello Chagall<br \/>\nHer Majesty&#8217;s Trolley Problem<br \/>\nHeretic Dreams<br \/>\nThe Hero Project: Redemption Season<br \/>\nHill Ridge Lost &amp; Found<br \/>\nA History of Publishing<br \/>\nHollowed Weed<br \/>\nHome Open<br \/>\nHoneysuckle<br \/>\nThe House Abandon<br \/>\nHouse of Lies<br \/>\nHow to Win at Rock Paper Scissors<br \/>\nHowled House<br \/>\nA Hunger Games Prequel, by Connor<br \/>\nA hypertext night<br \/>\nI Didn&#8217;t Really Like It Before<br \/>\ni love gardening<br \/>\nI THINK I&#8217;LL STOP OFF ON THE WAY<br \/>\nThe Ice-Bound Concordance<br \/>\nIceweb<br \/>\nImages Across a Shattered Sea<br \/>\nImpetum Maleficus<br \/>\nIn Good Company<br \/>\nInside the Facility<br \/>\nInterstellar Pizza Brigade<br \/>\nInto the Dragon&#8217;s Den<br \/>\nJenga<br \/>\nThe Jinni<br \/>\nJones N. Forebuts and the Secret of the Golden Butt<br \/>\nJuicing Simulator<br \/>\nJust Talk to Them<br \/>\nKilling the Hero<br \/>\nKinsale Horror<br \/>\nKnight Moves<br \/>\nKorenvliet<br \/>\nKotodama<br \/>\nL&#8217;Observatoire<br \/>\nLa cuarta especie<br \/>\nLa Missione di Kyle Remerook<br \/>\nLabour&#8217;s Letters Lost<br \/>\nLabyrinth of Loci<br \/>\nLadykiller in a Bind<br \/>\nThe Last Rites of Doctor Wu<br \/>\nLatch Trap<br \/>\nThe Laughing Gnome<br \/>\nLe diamant blanc<br \/>\nThe Legend of Blackbrook Village<br \/>\nLethophobia<br \/>\nLetters<br \/>\nLi You&#8217;s Secret Admirer<br \/>\nLife with OCD<br \/>\nLifestream<br \/>\nLight into Darkness<br \/>\nLiterary Intelligence<br \/>\nThe Little Lifeform That Could<br \/>\nThe Locked Room<br \/>\nLost Circus<br \/>\nThe Lost Crypt<br \/>\nThe Lost Heir 2: Forging a Kingdom<br \/>\nLow<br \/>\nThe Lurking Beast Chapter 2<br \/>\nThe Lurking Beast Chapter 3<br \/>\nThe Lurking Beast<br \/>\nMachinations: Fog of War<br \/>\nMake Trump Great Again<br \/>\nThe Mary Jane of Tomorrow<br \/>\nMayfly<br \/>\nMazurka &#8211; A Ghost in Italy<br \/>\nA Messenger Adventure<br \/>\nMetaQuest<br \/>\nMhairie Sioux Escrivain and the Dracula of Hogwarts<br \/>\nA Midsummer Night&#8217;s Choice<br \/>\nMighty Mage<br \/>\nMind Games<br \/>\nMirror and Queen<br \/>\nMiss Clemory &amp; the Wall of Fire<br \/>\nThe Missing T<br \/>\nThe Monster In Me<br \/>\nMoonland<br \/>\nthe morning after<br \/>\nThe Mouse<br \/>\nMouth of Ashes<br \/>\nMs. Lojka or: In Despair to Will to Be Oneself<br \/>\nMurder Simulator (How To Get Away With Murder)<br \/>\nMushrooms Red As Meat<br \/>\nMustard, Music, and Murder<br \/>\nMy Last Rodeo<br \/>\nMystery!<br \/>\nNadia&#8217;s Late<br \/>\nNew Town New Me<br \/>\nNight House<br \/>\nNights of the Arcane: Blacklam<br \/>\nNo Quiero Verla<br \/>\nNoble crook<br \/>\nNocked! True Tales of Robin Hood<br \/>\nNono and The Rainbow Apple<br \/>\nNorthern Powerhouse: Last Towns Standing<br \/>\nNot All Things Make It Across<br \/>\nNot Another Hero<br \/>\nNovember 9th, 2015 &#8211; Jan 26th, 2016<br \/>\nOdin City \u2013 F\u00fcr Ruhm und Ehre<br \/>\nOpen Sorcery<br \/>\nOpen Up!<br \/>\nOrpheus and Eurydice<br \/>\nOut There Chronicles &#8211; Ep. 1<br \/>\nP\u00e5 loftet sidder nissen<br \/>\nPATHOGENS: An Interactive Zombie Survival Gamebook<br \/>\nThe Periwink<br \/>\nPink<br \/>\nPogoman GO!<br \/>\nPoint Blank Blank<br \/>\nThe Poisoned Soup | \u6709\u6bd2\u4e4b\u6e6f<br \/>\nPortcullis<br \/>\nPowers of Two<br \/>\nPredictions of a Strip Mall Psychic<br \/>\nPsychomanteum<br \/>\nPut A Sock In It!<br \/>\nThe Queen&#8217;s Menagerie<br \/>\nQuest for the Traitor Saint<br \/>\nRastros<br \/>\nRealistic Zork<br \/>\nThe Realm<br \/>\nReference and Representation: An Approach to First-Order Semantics<br \/>\nRelentless Drag<br \/>\nThe Reveal<br \/>\nRite of Passage<br \/>\nRites of a Mailmare<br \/>\nRoberta Williams Eats a Sandwich<br \/>\nThe Role of Music in Your Life<br \/>\nRoom<br \/>\nRough Draft<br \/>\nSaga of the North Wind<br \/>\nSave the City with Hatsune Miku from Zombies.<br \/>\nScars<br \/>\nSchool 4<br \/>\nSCREW YOU, BEAR DAD!<br \/>\nThe Sea Eternal<br \/>\nSeachange<br \/>\nShady Brook<br \/>\nThe Shape of Our Container<br \/>\nsheep here<br \/>\nThe Shoe Dept.<br \/>\nSigil Reader (Field)<br \/>\nThe Silence of the Night<br \/>\nSilver Spooning: Close Encounters with Mr. Right<br \/>\nSisters of Claro Largo<br \/>\nSix-sided Die: The Text Adventure<br \/>\nThe Skull Embroidery<br \/>\nSkull-Scraper<br \/>\nThe Skyscraper and the Scar<br \/>\nSleepy Puppy&#8217;s Rest Quest<br \/>\nSlicker City<br \/>\nSmash Your TV<br \/>\nSnake&#8217;s Game<br \/>\nSorcery Is for Saps<br \/>\nSorcery! 4<br \/>\nSpace detective<br \/>\nSpace Pizza Delivery<br \/>\nSpace Police<br \/>\nSpace Poop<br \/>\nSpace Princess Coronation<br \/>\nThe Spectrap<br \/>\nSpellbound<br \/>\nStandoff<br \/>\nStar Yonza<br \/>\nStars<br \/>\nStarship Adventures<br \/>\nstay | leave<br \/>\nStaying Put<br \/>\nStealing the Stolen<br \/>\nSteam and Sacrilege<br \/>\nStone Harbor<br \/>\nA Study in Porpentine<br \/>\nStuff and Nonsense<br \/>\nSuperhero Stress<br \/>\nSuperluminal Vagrant Twin<br \/>\nSwag Simulator 2: #Based Baller<br \/>\nSwamp Castle<br \/>\nSwedish Dads<br \/>\nSynchronicity<br \/>\nTake<br \/>\nTake Over the World<br \/>\nTangaroa Deep<br \/>\nTao Through Space and Time<br \/>\nTeeth and Ice<br \/>\nTentaculon<br \/>\nThat Damn Elevator!<br \/>\nThaxted Havershill And the Golden Wombat<br \/>\nTheatre People<br \/>\nThis City Knows You<br \/>\nThis is My Memory of First Heartbreak, Which I Can&#8217;t Quite Piece Back Together<br \/>\nThree Little Pigs<br \/>\nThree-Card Trick<br \/>\nThe Thulheim Ritual<br \/>\nA Time of Tungsten<br \/>\nThe Time Travelling Watch<br \/>\nTinyHillside<br \/>\nTinyUtopias Football Manager: Super Soccer Slam Edition<br \/>\nTipelau<br \/>\nTL-MEGA-777-13<br \/>\nTo Kindle A Light<br \/>\nTo The Wolves<br \/>\nToiletworld<br \/>\nToiletworld Omega<br \/>\nTokyo Wizard<br \/>\nThe Tower and the Toucan<br \/>\nThe Train of Life<br \/>\nTransplant<br \/>\nTraveling in a sueno<br \/>\nTu Gutes Spiel<br \/>\nThe Tunnel<br \/>\nThe Twilight Zone &#8211; A Stop at Willoughby<br \/>\nThe Twilight Zone &#8211; A Text Adventure<br \/>\nUkraine Ghost Story<br \/>\nUn Aventure<br \/>\nUna noche en Darkadia<br \/>\nUnderground Adventure<br \/>\nUnderground Dungeon<br \/>\nA Universidade<br \/>\nUnreal City<br \/>\nThe Unstoppable Vengeance of Doctor Bonesaw<br \/>\nUntie<br \/>\nVentilator<br \/>\nVERSUS: The Elite Trials<br \/>\nVesp<br \/>\nViolets<br \/>\nThe Way Home<br \/>\nWe Are Unfinished<br \/>\nWelcome to Pineview<br \/>\nWhat Fuwa Bansaku Found<br \/>\nWhat to Do When You&#8217;re Alone<br \/>\nWho Are You, Mr Cooper?<br \/>\nWhoDunnIt<br \/>\nWisher, Theurgist, Fatalist<br \/>\nWitherOver<br \/>\nWorkers In Progress: Special Edition &#8211; Progress Harder<br \/>\nWorldsmith<br \/>\nXanadu &#8211; The World&#8217;s Only Hope, Part 2 &#8211; Revenge<br \/>\nThe Xylophoniad<br \/>\nYes, my mother is&#8230;<br \/>\nYesterday, You Saved the World<br \/>\nYou are standing in a cave&#8230;<br \/>\nYou Matched!<br \/>\nYou\u2019re The World\u2019s Most Successful Pickup Artist. Can You Have Sex With The President Of The United States?<br \/>\nZigamus: Zombies at Vigamus<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Very, very belatedly (mea culpa), here are the\u00a0works of interactive fiction eligible for consideration in the 2016 XYZZY Awards &#8211; and the IFDB entries which aren&#8217;t eligible. (Many thanks to everyone who helped out with this.) 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