EIGHT!

[Associating Press]

Nominated for:

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Best game

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
Return To Ditch Day, by Michael J. Roberts
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin

Best writing

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman
Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin

Best story

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
The Act of Misdirection, by Callico Harrison
The Cabal, by Stephen Bond
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin

Best setting

Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman
Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin
The Fire Tower, by Jacqueline A. Lott

Best NPCs (non-player characters)

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman
Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian
Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin

Best individual puzzle

The time puzzle in All Things Devours, by Toby Ord (as "half sick of shadows")
The toilet in Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Cracking Eno's computer in Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman
The poltergeist in Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
The cistern in The Dreamhold, by Andrew Plotkin

Best individual NPC

Bob Finger in Future Boy!, by Kent Tessman
Jacek in Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
Audrey in Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
Xojo in Return to Ditch Day, by Michael J. Roberts
Dr. Todd in The Great Xavio, by Reese Warner

Best individual PC (player character)

Dante in Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Tomasz Pudlo in Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
Austin in Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian
Jarrett Duffy in Necrotic Drift, by Robb Sherwin
Julia from Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
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Final round voting here: http://www.xyzzynews.com/2004finalists.html

AP 2005

[Ice Cream Jonsey]

Very kind of you, thank you.

I will, in turn, prop up KENT TESSMAN'S FUTURE BOY! nominated for NINE! Nine!!? Has anyone ever been nominated for more? (I think Spider & Web got nominated for as many. But I don't know off the top of my head!!!)