Best Writing
Like the Best Game award, the Best Writing award has been given since 1996. It recognizes a game which rises above the others in the quality of its descriptive text.
- 2011: Cryptozookeeper by Robb Sherwin
- Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis by Adam Thornton
- Taco Fiction by Ryan Veeder
- Zombie Exodus by Jim Dattilo
- 2010: Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home by Andrew Plotkin
- The Blind House by Amanda Allen as "Maude Overton"
- Gris et Jaune by Jason Devlin as "Steve van Gaal"
- Hoosegow by Ben Collins-Sussman and Jack Welch
- 2009: Alabaster by Emily Short et al.
- Broken Legs by Sarah Morayati
- Make it Good by Jon Ingold
- The Shadow in the Cathedral by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
- Walker & Silhouette by C. E. J. Pacian
- 2008: Violet by Jeremy Freese
- Everybody Dies by Jim Munroe
- Nightfall by Eric Eve
- Gun Mute by C. E. J. Pacian
- 2007: Lost Pig by Admiral Jota
- An Act of Murder by Christopher Huang
- Child's Play by Stephen Granade
- The Chinese Room by Harry Giles and Joey Jones
- Deadline Enchanter by Alan DeNiro
- 2006: Delightful Wallpaper by Andrew Plotkin
- Floatpoint by Emily Short
- Legion by Jason Devlin
- Pantomime by Robb Sherwin
- The Baron by Victor Gijsbers
- 2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin
- Bolivia by Night by Aidan Doyle
- Chancellor by Kevin Venzke
- Mix Tape by Brett Witty
- Tough Beans by Sara Dee
- 2004: Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
- Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- Gamlet by Tomasz Pudlo
- Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
- The Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
- 2003: Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
- City of Secrets by Emily Short
- Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short
- Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
- To Hell in a Hamper by J. J. Guest
- 2002: The Moonlit Tower by Yoon Ha Lee
- Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
- Savoir Faire by Emily Short
- Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish out of Me! by Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa
- When Help Collides by J. D. Berry
- 2001: Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
- All Roads by Jon Ingold
- Best of Three by Emily Short
- No Time to Squeal by Mike Sousa and Robb Sherwin
- Pytho's Mask by Emily Short
- 2000: Metamorphoses by Emily Short
- My Angel by Jon Ingold
- Rameses by Stephen Bond
- Shade by Andrew Plotkin
- You are a CHEF! by Dan Shiovitz
- 1999: For a Change by Dan Schmidt
- Exhibition by Ian Finley
- Lunatix: The Insanity Circle by Mike Snyder
- Varicella by Adam Cadre
- Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- 1998: Photopia by Adam Cadre
- Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
- Little Blue Men by Michael Gentry
- Muse by Chris Huang
- Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- 1997: Sunset Over Savannah by Ivan Cockrum
- Babel by Ian Finley
- I-0 by Adam Cadre
- She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent VanFossen
- The Space Under the Window by Andrew Plotkin
- 1996: So Far by Andrew Plotkin
- Aayela by Magnus Olsson
- Lost New York by Neil deMause
- The Meteor, the Stone, and a Long Glass of Sherbet by Graham Nelson
- Tapestry by Daniel Ravipinto
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Famous quotes containing the word writing:
“I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes—learning how to close the door on it when ordinary life intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it’s time to start writing again—that I’m not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.”
—Anne Tyler (b. 1941)
“...Often the accurate answer to a usage question begins, “It depends.” And what it depends on most often is where you are, who you are, who your listeners or readers are, and what your purpose in speaking or writing is.”
—Kenneth G. Wilson (b. 1923)