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) (tie)
Best Story: Bogeyman (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 murder in Erstwhile (Maddie Fialla, Marijke Perry)
Best Individual NPC: the Bogeyman in Bogeyman (Elizabeth Smyth)
Best Individual PC: the Magpie in Alias ‘The Magpie’ (J. J. Guest)
Best Implementation: Cragne Manor (Ryan Veeder, Jenni Polodna, et al.)
Best Use of Innovation: I.A.G. Alpha (Serhii Mozhaiskyi)
Best Technological Development: Dialog , Linus Åkesson
Best Use of Multimedia: Bandersnatch (Charlie Brooker, David Slade)
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Congratulations to all the winner and nominees!
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Congratulations to all of the many, many, many winners and nominees this year!
…did this set a new record, with the number of authors for Cragne Manor?
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Definitely! I’m pretty sure the biggest winner before was Alabaster with 10, and the biggest nominee was Pick up the Phone Booth and Aisle with 13 authors, but I may be forgetting something. I’ve never seen any other game with over 20 authors though, so I’m sure this is a record!
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Congrats all! Lots of cool looking games here I haven’t tried yet too.
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Congrats to all! 
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Bogeyman is such a badass game.
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