{"id":576,"date":"2022-12-22T10:55:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-22T18:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=576"},"modified":"2022-12-22T10:55:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-22T18:55:24","slug":"xyzzy-awards-2021-final-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=576","title":{"rendered":"XYZZY Awards 2021: final results"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The 2021 XYZZY Awards are complete! Here are the winners; congratulations to all, and thanks to everyone who participated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Game: <\/strong>What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed<\/a> (Amanda Walker)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Writing: <\/strong>Sting<\/a> (Mike Russo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Story: <\/strong>What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed<\/a> (Amanda Walker)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Setting: <\/strong>The Weight of a Soul<\/a> (Chin Kee Yong)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Puzzles: <\/strong>Grooverland<\/a> (Mathbrush)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best NPCs: <\/strong>Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires<\/a> (E. Joyce, N. Cormier)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Individual Puzzle: <\/strong>The hair swap, in The Libonotus Cup<\/a> (Nils Fagerburg)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Individual NPC: <\/strong>Liz, in Sting<\/a> (Mike Russo)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Individual PC: <\/strong>Marid, in The Weight of a Soul<\/a> (Chin Kee Yong)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Implementation<\/strong> (tie): The Libonotus Cup<\/a> (Nils Fagerburg); The Weight of a Soul<\/a> (Chin Kee Yong)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Use of Innovation <\/strong>(tie): 4×4 Archipelago<\/a> (Agnieszka Trzaska); Excalibur<\/a> (J.J. Guest, G.C. Baccaris, Duncan Bowsman); The Last Night of Alexisgrad<\/a> (Milo van Mesdag)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Technological Development: <\/strong>Gruescript<\/a> (Robin Johnson)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Best Use of Multimedia: <\/strong>Fish & Dagger<\/a> (grave snail games)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Congratulations again to the winners and nominees. See you next year!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2021 XYZZY Awards are complete! Here are the winners; congratulations to all, and thanks to everyone who participated. Best Game: What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker) Best Writing: Sting (Mike Russo) Best Story: What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed (Amanda Walker) Best Setting: The Weight of a Soul (Chin Kee Yong) Best […]<\/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\/576"}],"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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":577,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}