XYZZY Awards Historical Results

Best Game

• The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
• A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
• Tavern Crawler (Josh Labelle)
• Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)
• Vampire: The Masquerade (Kyle Marquis)

Best Writing

• Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
• Limerick Quest (Pace Smith)
• A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
• Scents & Semiosis (Sam Kabo Ashwell, Cat Manning, Caleb Wilson, Yoon Ha Lee)
• Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)

Best Story

• Electric word, "life" (Lance Nathan)
• The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
• Lore Distance Relationship (Naomi "Bez" Norbez)
• A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
• Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
• Tavern Crawler (Josh Labelle)
• Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)

Best Setting

• Ascension of Limbs (AKheon)
• The Eleusinian Miseries (Mike Russo)
• The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
• Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
• The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
• A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)
• A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
• Shadow Operative (Michael Lauenstein)
• Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)

Best Puzzles

• The Eleusinian Miseries (Mike Russo)
• The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
• JELLY (Tom Lento, Chandler Groover)
• A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
• Sage Sanctum Scramble (Arthur DiBianca)
• Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder (Zan, Xavid)
• Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
• Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)

Best NPCs

• The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
• Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale (Kreg Segall)
• The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
• A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
• Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
• Tavern Crawler (Josh Labelle)

Best Individual Puzzle

• Cow tipping in Seasonal Apocalypse Disorder (Zan, Xavid)
• Following the cat through the forest in Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
• Leaving the house in The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
• Registering the game in Crocodracula: The Beginning (Ryan Veeder, Harrison Gerard)

Best Individual NPC

• Kingfisher in Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)
• The parrot in The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
• Sassy Britches in Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
• Sister in Lore Distance Relationship (Naomi "Bez" Norbez)

Best Individual PC

• The Demon in Vain Empires (Thomas Mack, Xavid)
• The doppelganger in Doppeljobs (Lei)
• Elizabeth Boldan in Sense of Harmony (Scenario World)
• Ichabod Stuff in Stuff of Legend (Lance Campbell)
• Magpie in The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
• Open Sorcerer in A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)

Best Implementation

• 4x4 Galaxy (Agnieszka Trzaska)
• The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
• Limerick Quest (Pace Smith)
• The Magpie Takes the Train (MathBrush)
• A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)
• A Rope of Chalk (Ryan Veeder)
• Several Other Tales from Castle Balderstone (Ryan Veeder)

Best Use of Innovation

• The Cursèd Pickle of Shireton (Hanon Ondricek)
• The Impossible Bottle (Linus Åkesson)
• JELLY (Tom Lento, Chandler Groover)
• A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)
• The Prongleman Job (Arthur DiBianca)
• Sense of Harmony (Scenario World)
• Shadow Operative (Michael Lauenstein)

Best Technological Development

• Adventuron
• Dialog

Best Use of Multimedia

• Babyface (Mark Sample)
• Congee (Becci)
• Crocodracula: The Beginning (Ryan Veeder, Harrison Gerard)
• A Murder in Fairyland (Abigail Corfman)
• Present Quest (Errol Elumir)
• Sense of Harmony (Scenario World)
• Shadow Operative (Michael Lauenstein)