I’ve created IFDB polls for each category for the 2021 XYZZY awards (i.e. for games created in 2021). This is unofficial, and in no way connected to the actual XYZZY awards. These polls will have no effect on the actual awards, and categories of voting may be different than those I’ve represented.
Here are the polls:
I’ve also created this thread for people to discuss the Technological Development award, and any other awards should you prefer to talk here rather than IFDB.
I have no information about the 2021 XYZZY awards, but just wanted to help people remember games that they personally enjoyed last year. Thanks!
Thanks for pulling these together, Brian! I was having problems with IFDB earlier but looks like it’s doing better now, so I was able to add some initial ideas.
@nilsf 's custom engine is awesome. It seamlessly takes you from parser to choice, and a lot of reviewers commented on how great it is. I don’t know if he has a name for it, but I’ve been pretty impressed with what he can do with it.
On the technical side, there was a lot of neat work being done on z-code interpreters for lesser known machines, although some of that blurred into 2022.
I don’t think there’s a rule against mentioning your own work, or even against campaigning for your own work (I’ve been searching google for the last few minutes about it). I’m not officially connected with XYZZY and neither are these polls. The actual voting might happen months from now, so what we discuss here isn’t super important.
The only issues that have come in the past have been from large groups of people voting only for one game and not for any others, and even then it was mostly a misunderstanding and that game was given a special award.
So, outside of asking a bunch of people who don’t know the other games to vote for just your game, I believe that there’s nothing wrong (in the rules) with mentioning your own work here or nominating it on the polls on IFDB.
I remember some of the reviews highlighted some of my puzzles.