Nebula Award for Best Game Writing

The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing is one of the various Nebula Awards presented each year by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA) for science fiction or fantasy game writing, defined as "an interactive or playable story-driven work which conveys narrative, character, or story background".[1] To be eligible for Nebula Award consideration a short story must be published in English in the United States. Works published in English elsewhere in the world are also eligible provided they are released on either a website or in an electronic edition. Works in this category have no set word count and must have at least one credited writer.[1] The Nebula Award for Best Game Writing has been awarded annually since 2019.[1] The award has been described as one of "the most important of the American science fiction awards" and "the science-fiction and fantasy equivalent" of the Emmy Awards.[2][3]

Nebula Award for Best Game Writing
Awarded forThe best science fiction or fantasy game writing published in the prior calendar year
Presented byScience Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
First awarded2019
Currently held byLeonard Boyarsky, Kate Dollarhyde, Paul Kirsch, Chris L'Etoile, Daniel McPhee, Carrie Patel, Nitai Poddar, Marc Soskin, and Megan Starks for The Outer Worlds
Websitesfwa.org/nebula-awards/

Nebula Award nominees and winners are chosen by members of the SFWA, though the authors of the nominees do not need to be a member. Works are nominated each year by members in a period around December 15 through January 31, and the six works that receive the most nominations then form the final ballot, with additional nominees possible in the case of ties. Soon after, members are given a month to vote on the ballot, and the final results are presented at the Nebula Awards ceremony in May. Authors are not permitted to nominate their own works, and ties in the final vote are broken, if possible, by the number of nominations the works received.[1]

During the 2 nomination years, 10 games by 20 writers have been nominated. These have primarily been video games, but also include an interactive film and a book for a role-playing game system. The first year was won by Charlie Brooker for the interactive film Black Mirror: Bandersnatch; the second year was won by a team of nine writers led by Leonard Boyarsky for the video game The Outer Worlds. Only one writer has been nominated more than once, with two for Kate Heartfield. Interactive fiction developer Choice of Games has the most games nominated with four.

Winners and nominees

In the following table, the years correspond to the date of the ceremony, rather than when the game was first published. Each year links to the corresponding "year in literature". Entries with a blue background and an asterisk (*) next to the writer's name have won the award; those with a white background are the other nominees on the shortlist. Entries with a gray background and a plus sign (+) mark a year when "no award" was selected as the winner.

  *   Winners and joint winners   +   No winner selected

Year Writer(s) Game Developer Ref.
2019 Charlie Brooker*Black Mirror: BandersnatchHouse of Tomorrow, Netflix [4]
Matt Sophos God of War Santa Monica Studio [4]
Richard Zangrande Gaubert
Cory Barlog
M. Darusha WehmThe Martian JobChoice of Games
Natalia TheodoridouRent-A-Vice
Kate HeartfieldThe Road to Canberbury
2020 Leonard Boyarsky* The Outer Worlds Obsidian Entertainment [5]
Kate Dollarhyde*
Paul Kirsch*
Chris L'Etoile*
Daniel McPhee*
Carrie Patel*
Nitai Poddar*
Marc Soskin*
Megan Starks*
Kelsey BeachumOuter WildsMobius Digital [5]
Kate HeartfieldThe Magician's WorkshopChoice of Games [5]
Robert KurvitzDisco ElysiumZA/UM [5]
Elsa Sjunneson-HenryFate Accessibility ToolkitEvil Hat Productions [5]

References
  1. "Nebula Rules". Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America. Retrieved 2020-02-20.
  2. Flood, Allison (2009-04-28). "Ursula K Le Guin wins sixth Nebula award". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 2009-08-01. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
  3. Garmon, Jay (2006-10-03). "Geek Trivia: Science-fiction double feature". TechRepublic. Archived from the original on 2012-02-14. Retrieved 2011-12-12.
  4. "Nebula Awards 2019". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus. Retrieved 2019-04-07.
  5. "Nebula Awards 2020". Science Fiction Awards Database. Locus. Retrieved 2020-05-30.
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