For Your Consideration - XYZZY-eligible innovation uses of 2015 - an IFDB Poll
by Brendan Patrick Hennessy
RSS FeedThis is for suggesting games released in 2015 which you think might be worth considering for Best Use of Innovation in the XYZZY awards.
This is not a zeroth-round nomination. The category will still be text-entry, and games not mentioned here will remain eligible. This is not an official list. The point of poll is partly to suggest games that others might want to check out, partly as your own reminder for when XYZZY season comes around.
This isn't intended as a straw poll; please don't upvote games already on the list.
[Description adapted from verityvirtue's adaptation of Sam Kabo Ashwell's 2013/2014 polls]
| Midnight. Swordfight., by Chandler Groover 1 vote "Fascinating use of time and props in order to let the player manipulate the story" [+]"Fascinating use of time and props in order to let the player manipulate the story" --Emily Short...  Vote for this game | |
| Terminator, by Matt Weiner 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( ) --Doug Orleans... Vote for this game | |
| Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory, by Katherine Morayati 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --MathBrush... Vote for this game | |
| Feu de Joie (Session 1): cathedral, by Alan DeNiro 1 vote "A serial game with a very unusual format" [+]"A serial game with a very unusual format" ( - Full review) --MathBrush... Vote for this game | |
| 18 Rooms to Home, by Carolyn VanEseltine 1 vote "Serial game working backwards in time" [+]"Serial game working backwards in time" --Emily Short... Vote for this game | |
| Snake Game, by Vajra Chandrasekera and Tory Hoke 1 vote "Unusual use of a narrative map to let the player explore different aspects of the same scenes" [+]"Unusual use of a narrative map to let the player explore different aspects of the same scenes" --Emily Short... Vote for this game | |
| Aspel, by Emily Short 1 vote (No comment) [+](No comment) ( - Full review) --MathBrush... Vote for this game | |
| Bloom, by Caelyn Sandel 1 vote "Twine dynamic fiction" [+]"Twine dynamic fiction" --Emily Short... Vote for this game | |
| SPY INTRIGUE, by furkle 1 vote "Ambitious use of Twine, novel application of death scenes, and unusual visualization of the short-term future effect of your choices" [+]"Ambitious use of Twine, novel application of death scenes, and unusual visualization of the short-term future effect of your choices" ( ) --Emily Short... Vote for this game | |