{"id":466,"date":"2016-05-01T12:41:35","date_gmt":"2016-05-01T19:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=466"},"modified":"2016-05-21T02:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-05-21T09:00:02","slug":"2015-xyzzy-awards-final-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"2015 XYZZY Awards: final round"},"content":{"rendered":"

The finalist games of 2015 are out. Congratulations, all!<\/p>\n

Voting in the second round is open now, and will remain so through May 14. (Edit: extended to the 20th.)\u00a0<\/span>Go, vote!<\/a><\/p>\n

Best Game<\/span>
Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/span>
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)<\/span>
Hollywood Visionary (Aaron A. Reed)<\/span>
Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)<\/span>
SPY INTRIGUE (furkle)<\/span>

Best Writing<\/span>
Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/span>
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati)<\/span>
Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)<\/span>
SPY INTRIGUE (furkle)<\/span>

Best Story<\/span>
Arcane Intern (Unpaid) (Astrid Dalmady)<\/span>
Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/span>
Cape (Bruno Dias)<\/span>
Map (Ade McT)<\/span>

Best Setting<\/span>
Beautiful Dreamer (S. Woodson)<\/span>
Chlorophyll (Steph Cherrywell)<\/span>
Neon Haze (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie)<\/span>
Sub Rosa (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)<\/span>
Summit (Phantom Williams)<\/span>
Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)<\/span>

Best Puzzles<\/span>
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)<\/span>
Chlorophyll (Steph Cherrywell)<\/span>
Oppositely Opal (Buster Hudson)<\/span>
Scroll Thief (Daniel M. Stelzer)<\/span>
Sub Rosa (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)<\/span>
Toby’s Nose (Chandler Groover)<\/span>

Best NPCs<\/span>
Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/span>
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)<\/span>
Hollywood Visionary (Aaron A. Reed)<\/span>
Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)<\/span>
Nowhere Near Single (kaleidofish)<\/span>

Best Individual Puzzle<\/span>
Catching the fairy in Oppositely Opal (Buster Hudson)<\/span>
The Hard Puzzle in Hard Puzzle (Ade McT)<\/span>
Identifying the murderer in Toby’s Nose (Chandler Groover)<\/span>
The skull in Sub Rosa (Joey Jones, Melvin Rangasamy)<\/span>
Understanding how the RPS cannon works in Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)<\/span>

Best Individual NPC<\/span>
Bell Park in Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/span>
Dmitri in Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)<\/span>
Hana in Hana Feels (Gavin Inglis)<\/span>
Winter Storm Draco in Winter Storm Draco (Ryan Veeder)<\/span>

Best Individual PC<\/span>
Bridget in Birdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)<\/span>
Martin Voigt in Darkiss! Wrath of the Vampire – Chapter 1: the Awakening (Marco Vallarino)<\/span>
Opal in Oppositely Opal (Buster Hudson)<\/span>
Toby in Toby’s Nose (Chandler Groover)<\/span>

Best Implementation<\/span>
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati)<\/span>
Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)<\/span>

Best Use of Innovation<\/span>
Aspel (Emily Short)<\/span>
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory (Katherine Morayati)<\/span>
Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)<\/span>
SPY INTRIGUE (furkle)<\/span>
Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)<\/span>

Best Technological Development<\/span>
Raconteur<\/span>

Best Use of Multimedia<\/span>
Secret Agent Cinder (Emily Ryan)<\/span>
Sorcery! 3 (Steve Jackson, inkle)<\/span>
Summit (Phantom Williams)<\/span>
Sunless Sea (Failbetter Games)<\/span>
We Know the Devil (Aevee Bee)<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The finalist games of 2015 are out. Congratulations, all! Voting in the second round is open now, and will remain so through May 14. (Edit: extended to the 20th.)\u00a0Go, vote! Best GameBirdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)Brain Guzzlers from Beyond! (Steph Cherrywell)Hollywood Visionary (Aaron A. Reed)Midnight. Swordfight. (Chandler Groover)SPY INTRIGUE (furkle)Best WritingBirdland (Brendan Patrick Hennessy)Laid Off from […]<\/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":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466"}],"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=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}