{"id":536,"date":"2019-08-16T12:15:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T19:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=536"},"modified":"2019-08-16T12:15:17","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T19:15:17","slug":"2018-xyzzy-awards-final-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/?p=536","title":{"rendered":"2018 XYZZY Awards, final results"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The 2018 XYZZY Awards are complete for this year! Congratulations to our winners:<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Game:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=ltwvgb2lubkx82yi\"><strong>Bogeyman<\/strong><\/a> (Elizabeth Smyth)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Writing:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=vp5xvfqvycyz2q3r\"><strong>Animalia<\/strong><\/a> (Ian Michael Waddell) and <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=ltwvgb2lubkx82yi\"><strong>Bogeyman<\/strong><\/a> (Elizabeth Smyth)\u00a0<span class=\"tie\">(tie)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Story:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=ltwvgb2lubkx82yi\">Bogeyman<\/a><\/strong> (Elizabeth Smyth)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Setting:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=i54l5bty9bv5n2nw\"><strong>Cannery Vale<\/strong><\/a> (Hanon Ondricek)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Puzzles:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=pw1rbjt1t4n4n87s\"><strong>Junior Arithmancer<\/strong><\/a> (Mike Spivey)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best NPCs:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=vp5xvfqvycyz2q3r\"><strong>Animalia<\/strong><\/a> (Ian Michael Waddell)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Individual Puzzle:<\/strong> solving your murder in <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=9xgxim719fp1eanq\"><strong>Erstwhile<\/strong><\/a> (Maddie Fialla, Marijke Perry)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Individual NPC: <\/strong>the Bogeyman in <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=ltwvgb2lubkx82yi\"><strong>Bogeyman<\/strong><\/a> (Elizabeth Smyth)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Individual PC: <\/strong>the Magpie in <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=yspn49v69hzc8rtb\"><strong>Alias &#8216;The Magpie&#8217;<\/strong><\/a> (J. J. Guest)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Implementation: <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=4x7nltu8p851tn4x\">Cragne Manor<\/a><\/strong> (Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna, et al.)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"winner\" style=\"color: #000000;\">\n<p><strong>Best Use of Innovation: <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=erj212utudi2kltv\">I.A.G. Alpha<\/a><\/strong> (Serhii Mozhaiskyi)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Technological Development: <a href=\"https:\/\/linusakesson.net\/dialog\/index.php\">Dialog<\/a><\/strong>,<b>\u00a0<\/b>Linus \u00c5kesson<\/p>\n<p><strong>Best Use of Multimedia: <a href=\"https:\/\/ifdb.tads.org\/viewgame?id=dh7kphu7nmjt1ia5\">Bandersnatch<\/a><\/strong> (Charlie Brooker, David Slade)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2018 XYZZY Awards are complete for this year! Congratulations to our winners: Best Game: Bogeyman (Elizabeth Smyth) Best Writing: Animalia (Ian Michael Waddell) and Bogeyman (Elizabeth Smyth)\u00a0(tie) Best Story:\u00a0Bogeyman (Elizabeth Smyth) Best Setting: Cannery Vale (Hanon Ondricek) Best Puzzles: Junior Arithmancer (Mike Spivey) Best NPCs: Animalia (Ian Michael Waddell) Best Individual Puzzle: solving your [&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\/536"}],"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=536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":537,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/536\/revisions\/537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xyzzyawards.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}