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2011 XYZZY Awards: nominations open
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Sam Kabo Ashwell
Jan 18, 2012, 8:50:15 PM1/18/12
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Voting is open in the first round of the XYZZY Awards, which honour
the year's highest accomplishments in IF. In the first round, you can
nominate (almost) any game released in 2011, at http://xyzzyawards.org/
; the top four in each category will go through to the second round.
The first round of voting will end on February 10.
The categories are Best Game, Writing, Story, Setting, Puzzles, NPCs,
Individual Puzzle, Individual NPC, Individual PC, and the new-ish
categories Implementation, Use of Innovation, Technological
Development, and Supplemental Materials. You do not have to vote for
every category, so please submit your votes even if they're
incomplete.
It would be great to see discussion about the games you think should
win. I'd particularly encourage discussion of deserving games that
were released outside the major comps and may not have received as
much attention. Every year, people don't vote because they feel that
they haven't played enough games to have a valid opinion. Anything you
can do to help overcome that -- suggesting games that might be worth
playing, talking about your choices -- is a Good Thing.
The list of games, compiled by the stalwart David Welbourn, is at
http://xyzzyawards.org/games.php . That list is as comprehensive as we
could get it, but as IF continues to branch out into different corners
of the web, it becomes ever more difficult to account for everything.
If you know about any games that are missing, please tell us, point us
to where we can find 'em, and we'll fix it as quickly as possible.
(Releases that are not intended to be complete -- open betas,
Introcomp entries -- don't count.)
the year's highest accomplishments in IF. In the first round, you can
nominate (almost) any game released in 2011, at http://xyzzyawards.org/
; the top four in each category will go through to the second round.
The first round of voting will end on February 10.
The categories are Best Game, Writing, Story, Setting, Puzzles, NPCs,
Individual Puzzle, Individual NPC, Individual PC, and the new-ish
categories Implementation, Use of Innovation, Technological
Development, and Supplemental Materials. You do not have to vote for
every category, so please submit your votes even if they're
incomplete.
It would be great to see discussion about the games you think should
win. I'd particularly encourage discussion of deserving games that
were released outside the major comps and may not have received as
much attention. Every year, people don't vote because they feel that
they haven't played enough games to have a valid opinion. Anything you
can do to help overcome that -- suggesting games that might be worth
playing, talking about your choices -- is a Good Thing.
The list of games, compiled by the stalwart David Welbourn, is at
http://xyzzyawards.org/games.php . That list is as comprehensive as we
could get it, but as IF continues to branch out into different corners
of the web, it becomes ever more difficult to account for everything.
If you know about any games that are missing, please tell us, point us
to where we can find 'em, and we'll fix it as quickly as possible.
(Releases that are not intended to be complete -- open betas,
Introcomp entries -- don't count.)
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