{"id":545,"date":"2020-10-01T23:24:37","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T06:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=545"},"modified":"2020-10-01T23:24:37","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T06:24:37","slug":"xyzzy-awards-2019-final-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"XYZZY Awards 2019: final results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The XYZZY Awards are over for the year, and the winners have been decided. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Congratulations to all of our winners &#8211; and thank you to everyone who took part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Best Game<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/creme-de-la-creme\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/creme-de-la-creme\/\">Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me<\/a>, by Hannah Powell-Smith; and <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\">Zozzled<\/a>, by Steph Cherrywell (tie)<br><strong>Best Writing<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/creme-de-la-creme\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/creme-de-la-creme\/\">Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me<\/a>, by Hannah Powell-Smith<br><strong>Best Story<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/creme-de-la-creme\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.choiceofgames.com\/creme-de-la-creme\/\">Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me<\/a>, by Hannah Powell-Smith, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifarchive.org\/if-archive\/games\/competition2019\/Turandot\/turandot.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ifarchive.org\/if-archive\/games\/competition2019\/Turandot\/turandot.html\">Turandot<\/a>, by Victor Gijsbers (tie)<br><strong>Best Setting<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/grimoirtua.itch.io\/heretic\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grimoirtua.itch.io\/heretic\">Heretic&#8217;s Hope<\/a>, by G.C. Baccaris<br><strong>Best Puzzles<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\">Zozzled<\/a>, by Steph Cherrywell<br><strong>Best NPCs<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\">Zozzled<\/a>, by Steph Cherrywell<br><strong>Best Individual Puzzle<\/strong> &#8211; Inspiring the artist in<a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\"> Zozzled<\/a>, by Steph Cherrywell<br><strong>Best Individual NPC<\/strong> &#8211; Turandot from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ifarchive.org\/if-archive\/games\/competition2019\/Turandot\/turandot.html\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ifarchive.org\/if-archive\/games\/competition2019\/Turandot\/turandot.html\">Turandot<\/a>, by Victor Gijsbers<br><strong>Best Individual PC<\/strong> &#8211; Hazel Greene from <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=436g2gu94kxin4x7\">Zozzled<\/a>, by Steph Cherrywell<br><strong>Best Implementation<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/rcveeder.net\/flyfishing\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/rcveeder.net\/flyfishing\/\">Ryan Veeder&#8217;s\u00a0Authentic Fly Fishing<\/a>, by Ryan Veeder<br><strong>Best Use of Innovation<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidungeon.io\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aidungeon.io\/\">AI Dungeon<\/a>, by Nick Walton<br><strong>Best Technological Development<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/aidungeon.io\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/aidungeon.io\/\">AI Dungeon<\/a>, by Nick Walton<br><strong>Best Use of Multimedia<\/strong> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/provodnikgames.com\/grey\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/provodnikgames.com\/grey\/\">Dull Grey<\/a>, by Provodnik Games, and <a href=\"https:\/\/grimoirtua.itch.io\/heretic\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/grimoirtua.itch.io\/heretic\">Heretic&#8217;s Hope<\/a>, by G.C. Baccaris (tie)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The XYZZY Awards are over for the year, and the winners have been decided. Congratulations to all of our winners &#8211; and thank you to everyone who took part. Best Game &#8211; Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me, by Hannah Powell-Smith; and Zozzled, by Steph Cherrywell (tie)Best Writing &#8211; Cr\u00e8me de la Cr\u00e8me, by Hannah Powell-SmithBest Story [&hellip;]<\/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\/545"}],"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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":546,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}