{"id":505,"date":"2017-07-23T17:12:59","date_gmt":"2017-07-24T00:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=505"},"modified":"2017-07-23T17:12:59","modified_gmt":"2017-07-24T00:12:59","slug":"the-2016-xyzzy-awards-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"The 2016 XYZZY Awards Winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 XYZZY Awards are complete. Congratulations to this year&#8217;s winners:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Game: <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=5xzoz5wimz4xxha\">Superluminal Vagrant Twin<\/a>, CEJ Pacian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Writing: <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=4btr90e7opazl24d\">Take<\/a>, Katherine Morayati<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Story: <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=ec6x9y8qcmsrxob9\">Foo Foo<\/a>, Buster Hudson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Setting: <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=7e699ifb6u3767yr\">Cactus Blue Motel<\/a>, Astrid Dalmady<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Puzzles: <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=s8oklhvdqoo5dv4l\">16 Ways\u00a0To Kill A Vampire At McDonalds<\/a>, Abigail Corfman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best NPCs: tie, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=7e699ifb6u3767yr\">Cactus Blue Motel<\/a>, Astrid Dalmady; and<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=ec6x9y8qcmsrxob9\">Foo Foo<\/a>, Buster Hudson<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Individual Puzzle: customizing the robot, <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=27ztb4iulm9l7sqe\">The Mary Jane of Tomorrow,<\/a> Emily Short<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Individual NPC: the robot from <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=27ztb4iulm9l7sqe\">The Mary Jane of Tomorrow<\/a>, Emily Short<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Individual PC: BEL\/S from <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=hslgyznv9n2hou7k\">Open Sorcery<\/a>, Abigail Corfman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Implementation: <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=5xzoz5wimz4xxha\">Superluminal Vagrant Twin<\/a>, CEJ Pacian<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Use of Innovation: <a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=d1wubq1svpdr4mdo\">The Ice-Bound Concordance<\/a>, Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Technological Development: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inklestudios.com\/ink\/\">Ink<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Use of Multimedia:\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=d1wubq1svpdr4mdo\">The Ice-Bound Concordance<\/a>, Aaron A. Reed and Jacob Garbe<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 XYZZY Awards are complete. Congratulations to this year&#8217;s winners: Best Game: Superluminal Vagrant Twin, CEJ Pacian Best Writing: Take, Katherine Morayati Best Story: Foo Foo, Buster Hudson Best Setting: Cactus Blue Motel, Astrid Dalmady Best Puzzles: 16 Ways\u00a0To Kill A Vampire At McDonalds, Abigail Corfman Best NPCs: tie, Cactus Blue Motel, Astrid Dalmady; [&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":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505"}],"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=505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}