{"id":401,"date":"2015-03-11T09:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=401"},"modified":"2015-03-11T09:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-03-11T16:57:30","slug":"ineligible-games-for-2014-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=401","title":{"rendered":"Ineligible Games for 2014 Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’re about done with compiling the list of eligible games for 2014. In line with previous years, and the interests of transparency, I’m also going to list the games which are listed on IFDB but were\u00a0ineligible\u00a0<\/em>(and if I’ve done so in error, please let me know.)<\/p>\n

In addition to an IFDB listing, a game needs to meet some minimal standards to be eligible for XYZZY voting:<\/p>\n

Exists,<\/strong>\u00a0in a form accessible to the general public.\u00a0IFDB gets a certain number of entries from games which the author only\u00a0plans<\/em> to make, or which were only ever hosted in one place and are now gone. Neither are eligible. (It is often difficult, in practice, to distinguish one from the other.) A quick search is sometimes done if it seems likely, but we can’t exhaustively track down every game – so if you can do so, we’ll be happy to reinstate them.<\/p>\n

This means that\u00a0Everything you swallow will one day come up like a stone – <\/em>released as ephemeral, but\u00a0archived in various places – is eligible, but Ultimate Quest<\/em>, a commercial work no longer available, is not. Entries ruled out for apparent non-existence include:<\/p>\n

The Conversation I Can’t Have,<\/em> Morgan Rille
\nCuttings,<\/em> nahuel denegri
\nEscaping a Nightmare,<\/em> Wolly Wombat
\nFire Safety Simulator<\/em>, Luckyskull2
\nNormal Forest By Day, Dark Forest By Night<\/em> Lepak, Vo, Lee, Thomack
\nHalloween,<\/em> Tom Pod
\nHe Grabbed a Hammer,<\/em> Timothy Butcher
\nHell’s Basement,<\/em> Simon Leek, Peter Laskin
\nHello, Nathan,<\/em> TheSuperiorRealms
\nThe Hunting Trip,<\/em> whoshotjfk?
\nInto a mind of madness<\/em> D.B.T.
\nLa Source De Zig,<\/em> Benjamin Roux
\nLana’s Return,<\/em> steter90
\nLanding in Nigeria,<\/em> Nnamdi Christopher Iroaganachi
\nMatch Made in Steel,<\/em> aarthur9
\nOutbreak Day 2 : The journey begins,<\/em> Andre Berthiaume
\nPostponing Destiny,<\/em> Lindsey Gregor
\nRhino Cyborgs,<\/em> Rhino Cyborgs
\nThe Sacred Staff of Deck Koji,<\/em>\u00a0‘Dr. Al Gore’
\nSaturday Night,<\/em> Eric Brasure
\nSecond Destiny,<\/em> Anonymous
\nSir Gawain,<\/em> Tasha McCartney
\ntransgresion181288,<\/em> luis sanchez
\nUltimate Quest,<\/em> Emily Short
\nUnder a Mountain,<\/em> niinik
\nWorst Day Ever,<\/em> tynichole
\nYou Can’t Go Out For A Cigarette In Space,<\/em> Justin Hurst<\/p>\n

Released as complete in applicable year. <\/strong>Each work only gets one shot at the\u00a0awards, so we prefer to wait until they’re ready for it.\u00a0This is an increasingly indefinite\u00a0category, so we mostly rely on cues from the author for this. If an author describes the game with words like ‘alpha’, ‘beta’, ‘demo’, ‘unfinished’, ‘intro’, ‘test’, ‘under construction’ or the like, or if it’s an Introcomp release, we take the author’s word for it. This doesn’t apply to\u00a0episodic works released as separate chapters.<\/p>\n

Ports, updated versions, and re-releases are considered to already have been released, and are not eligible. Adaptations, remixes and translations are. (Again, this is something of a rule of thumb. Jim Aikin’s 2006 game\u00a0Last Resort,<\/em>\u00a0considerably expanded and renamed\u00a0Lydia’s Heart<\/em>, was deemed eligible for the 2007 Awards.)<\/p>\n

Bear Creek, Part 1,\u00a0<\/em>Wes Modes
\n Chalk Circles,\u00a0<\/em>Paul Jessup
\n The Night and Stars, <\/em>Jufry Ananta
\n Scaffold 22,\u00a0<\/em>MoLoLu
\n Sigmund’s Quest,\u00a0<\/em>Gregor Holtz
\n Find the Gold: An Easy-To-Read Adventure,\u00a0<\/em>IFforEducation<\/span>
\n SpirI7wrak,\u00a0<\/em>Otis T. Dog
\n Dark Unknown Planet,\u00a0<\/em>Mark Eaton, Barrie Eaton<\/span><\/p>\n

Interactive fiction.<\/strong>\u00a0This is a highly nebulous term for which we have not yet adopted a tidy standard, largely on the grounds that the communities we serve haven’t either; for now, we use best judgement, and apply sparingly – really only for hapless authors who have wandered into IFDB without any context, or for the eventuality that someone puts in a joke entry for\u00a0Call of Duty.\u00a0<\/em>No games were rejected under this standard this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We’re about done with compiling the list of eligible games for 2014. In line with previous years, and the interests of transparency, I’m also going to list the games which are listed on IFDB but were\u00a0ineligible\u00a0(and if I’ve done so in error, please let me know.) In addition to an IFDB listing, a game needs […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=401"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}