2014 XYZZY Award Winners

And the winners of the XYZZY Awards are ...

Every year, the community votes on the best IF works in different categories.

Basically, if the game is IF, was released in 2014 and people know about it, it's entered into the XYZZY Awards.

Two commercial games, "80 Days" and "Hadean Lands," did especially well.

• Best Game: "80 Days" (inkle, Meg Jayanth)

• Best Writing: "With Those We Love Alive" (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie)

• Best Story: "80 Days" (inkle, Meg Jayanth)

• Best Setting: "Hadean Lands" (Andrew Plotkin)

• Best Puzzles: "Hadean Lands" (Andrew Plotkin)

• Best NPCs: "Creatures Such As We" (Lynnea Glasser)

• Best Individual Puzzle: The sequence of time-travel in • "Fifteen Minutes" (Ade McT)

• Best Individual NPC: the Empress in "With Those We Love Alive" (Porpentine, Brenda Neotenomie)

• Best Individual PC: the PC in "the uncle who works for nintendo" (Michael Lutz)

• Best Implementation: "Hadean Lands" (Andrew Plotkin)

• Best Use of Innovation: "Hadean Lands" (Andrew Plotkin)

• Best Technological Development: Twine 2 and Inform 7 6L02 (tie)

• Best Use of Multimedia: 80 Days (inkle, Meg Jayanth)