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The
Adult Interactive Fiction Awards (AIFAs or Erins) are an opportunity
for the AIF community to express their appreciation to authors for
their efforts in creating the games we love.
This
is the fourth installment of the AIFAs, and though there was a slowdown
in the number of entries when compared with 2004, the overall quality
of the games has been quite high, as indicated by the ratio of games
nominated for at least one award to the number of games released in
total. Seventeen of the twenty-six games
have been nominated for at least one award, and many have been
nominated for numerous awards.
Once
again, the Erin winners will be determined by a ‘people’s choice’ vote.
Everyone who has ever played, beta-tested or written an AIF game (if
you’re reading this, then I’m talking about you!) is invited and
encouraged to vote for their favorite games, characters and steamy sex
scenes of the year. Your votes will determine who will be presented
Erins at an awards ceremony to be held in a public Internet chat room
at the end of January, 2006. Last year,
the ceremony was held in the ifMUD Auditorium, and a great time was had
by all. A transcript of the ceremony is
available on the AIF Newsletter web site. Details
of this year’s ceremony will be announced soon on the Erins web site
and on the main AIF message boards.
The
ten-member AIFA committee has nominated games in all the categories. We hereby proudly present you our nominees for
the 2005 Adult Interactive Fiction Awards:
(All nominees are listed in alphabetical order
by game name)
For
Best Male Player-Character:
1. Unnamed PC in Crossworlds Part III – The Final Far Far
Away Frontier
2. David Fever in Fever Cabin
3. Unnamed PC in Ideal Pacific Coast University
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4. Buzz in Sex Artist
5. Unnamed PC in Tomorrow
Never Comes
For Best Female
Player-Character:
1. Unnamed PC in Casting
2. Melissa in Choices, Decisions and
Options
3.
Lauren in Lauren’s Awakening
4. Rachel
in Rachel’s Bad Day
For Best Male
Non-Player Character:
1. Professor Stone in Ideal Pacific Coast University
2. Jim in Sex
Artist
3.
Calamaro in Tomorrow Never
Comes
4. Sir
Richard in Weekend
For Best Female
Non-Player Character:
1. Debbie in Crossworlds Part III – The Final Far Far
Away Frontier
2. Lori
in Fever Cabin
3.
Gertrude in Ideal Pacific
Coast University
4. Heidi
in Pool Party
5. Cathy
in Reunion
6. Claire
in Sex Artist
For Best
Heterosexual Sex Scene:
1. PC with Mona in Ideal Pacific Coast University
2. PC with Gertrude in Ideal Pacific Coast University
3. PC with Heidi in Pool Party
4. Buzz with Claire in Sex Artist
5. PC with Janet in Tomorrow Never Comes
6. PC with Amanda in Weekend
For Best Lesbian
Sex Scene:
1. Betty with Veronica in Archie's Birthday - Chapter 1: Reggie's
Gift
2. PC with Anna in Casting
3. Lauren
with Hannah in Lauren’s
Awakening
4. Lauren with
Ashley in Lauren’s Awakening
5. Heidi with Alanna in Pool Party
For Best Threesome/Orgy Sex Scene
1. Malcolm with Verrin and
Hensley in Escape Pod
2. David with Kim and Lori in Fever
Cabin
3. PC with Tina and Tonya in Ideal
Pacific Coast University
4. Buzz with Liz and Jim in Sex Artist
5. Buzz with Claire and Toni in Sex Artist
For Best Sex
Overall:
1. Crossworlds Part III – The
Final Far Far Away Frontier
2. Ideal Pacific Coast University
3. Pool
Party
4. Reunion
5. Sex
Artist
For Best Writing:
1. Fever
Cabin
2. Ideal Pacific Coast University
3. Reunion
4. Sex
Artist
5. Tomorrow
Never Comes
For Best
Technical Implementation:
1. Escape Pod
2. Fever
Cabin
3. Ideal
Pacific Coast University
4. Sex
Artist
5. Tomorrow
Never Comes
For Most Innovative Game:
1. Choices
2. Fever Cabin
3. Ideal Pacific Coast University
4. Reunion
5. Tomorrow Never Comes
6. Weekend
For Best Use of
Multimedia
1. Fever
Cabin
2. Tomorrow Never Comes
3. X-Men: First Day at the Institute
For Best
Puzzles
1. Fever
Cabin
2. Ideal Pacific Coast University
3. Reunion
4. Tomorrow
Never Comes
5. Weekend
For Best Humor:
1. Crawler’s
Delight
2. Crossworlds
Part III – The Final Far Far Away Frontier
3. Fever
Cabin
4. Ideal
Pacific Coast University
5. Reunion
For Best New Author:
1. Captain
Cranky Pants
2. fellatrix_uk
3. GoddoG
4. Moriarty
For Best Game of the Year:
1. Fever
Cabin
2. Ideal Pacific Coast University
3. Pool Party
4. Sex Artist
5. Tomorrow Never Comes
The award for the best beta-tester of the year is
a new Erin this year. We polled all the
authors who released games this year and asked them to endorse one of
their testers for the award. The testers
who received at least one endorsement are as follows:
1. A. Bomire
2. A. Ninny
3. Germ Waster
4. Richard Gillingham
5. Emily James
6. Rob Loggie
The tester who was endorsed by the most authors
will receive the Erin. This obviously
favors testers who participated in testing more games, but maybe that
is one contributing factor in a recipient being Erin-worthy.
We will also present this year’s Badman Memorial
Lifetime Achievement Award to one recipient along with the rest of the
Erins. We will need your vote to determine who is worthy of this honor.
Please take advantage of this great opportunity to
thank the authors without whom there would be no AIF. Vote now and help
honor your favorite games and authors with a coveted Erin!
The AIFA nominating committee would like to extend
its heartfelt gratitude to all the authors who wrote new games this
year, whether or not they were nominated for Erins. Without you there
would be no AIF community. The games and authors that were nominated
are listed below.
1.
Archie's
Birthday - Chapter 1: Reggie's Gift by Purple Dragon
2.
Casting by fellatrix_uk3.
3.
Choices by David Whyld
4.
Crawler's
Delight by A. Troll
5.
Crossworlds
Part 3 - The Final Far Far Away Frontier by BBBen
6.
Decisions by David Whyld
7.
Escape Pod (expanded Edition) by
LoveLettersToLove
8.
Fever Cabin by GoddoG
9.
Ideal
Pacific Coast University by NewKid
10.
Lauren's
Awakening by
TotalDirt
11.
Options by David Whyld
12.
Pool Party by Christopher Cole and A.
Bomire
13.
The Reunion by Moriatry
14.
The Sex
Artist by A. Ninny
15.
Tomorrow
Never Comes by A.
Bomire
16.
Weekend by Pierre
17.
X-Men:
First Day at the Institute by Captain_Cranky_Pants2000
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