XYZZY Awards 2020, and a zeroth round for 2021

[dfabulich (Dan Fabulich)]

I’m super excited about this! (And thanks for enduring me bugging you about it.)

@maga

I don’t have the details fully nailed down yet; and I welcome feedback on it

Are there particular details you’d like feedback on? There was some discussion about this in 2018.

XYZZY Awards: Let's add a "Nomination Round"

The 2018 XYZZY Awards opened voting on July 5th, which is later than I think we’d all have liked. I believe that this happened because the current process for XYZZY currently requires the organizer and some volunteers to wade through every single IFDB game released in the prior calendar year to first verify whether the game (still) exists, whether the game was released as complete, and whether the game is “not IF.” This is a ton of work, and I’m grateful that Sam, Claire, and Juxi were willing…

In my mind, the zeroth round could be as simple as a voting form with “everything in IFDB that was marked with a release date in 2020.”

(In the hopefully near future when we can make it open year-round, and/or have a “nominate” button in IFDB.)