XYZZY Awards 2001
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2001 XYZZY Award Winners
- Best Game: All Roads (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Best Writing: Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Best Story: All Roads (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Best Setting: All Roads (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Best Puzzles: First Things First (J. Robinson Wheeler; TADS 2).
- Best NPCs: Pytho's Mask (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Best Individual Puzzle: Deciphering the language, in The Gostak (Carl Muckenhoupt; Z-code).
- Best Individual NPC: Yehoweh Porn, in Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Best Individual PC: The Kissing Bandit, in The Tale of the Kissing Bandit (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Best Use of Medium: The Gostak (Carl Muckenhoupt; Z-code).
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2001 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists
- Best Game: All Roads (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Finalist: Best of Three (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: First Things First (J. Robinson Wheeler; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Pytho's Mask (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Best Writing: Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: All Roads (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Finalist: Best of Three (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: No Time To Squeal (Robb Sherwin and Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Pytho's Mask (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Best Story: All Roads (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Finalist: Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: First Things First (J. Robinson Wheeler; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Pytho's Mask (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: Vicious Cycles (Simon Mark; Z-code).
- Finalist: Voices (Aris Katsaris; Z-code).
- Best Setting: All Roads (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Finalist: Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: Fine Tuned (Dennis G. Jerz; Z-code).
- Finalist: Heroes (Sean Barrett; Z-code).
- Finalist: Pytho's Mask (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: Textfire Golf (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Best Puzzles: First Things First (J. Robinson Wheeler; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Degeneracy (Leonard Richardson; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Gostak (Carl Muckenhoupt; Z-code).
- Finalist: Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country (Adam Thornton; Glulx).
- Finalist: Vicious Cycles (Simon Mark; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Weapon (Sean Barrett; Z-code).
- Best NPCs: Pytho's Mask (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: Best of Three (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: Textfire Golf (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: You Are Here (Roy Fisher; Z-code).
- Best Individual Puzzle: Deciphering the language, in The Gostak (Carl Muckenhoupt; Z-code).
- Finalist: The birds, in All Roads (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Finalist: Switching the glasses, in Pytho's Mask (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: The chess game, in Silicon Castles (David Given; Z-code).
- Finalist: [unspecified], in Textfire Golf (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: Disarming the bomb, in Vicious Cycles (Simon Mark; Z-code).
- Best Individual NPC: Yehoweh Porn, in Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: Grant Stern, in Best of Three (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: The droke, in The Gostak (Carl Muckenhoupt; Z-code).
- Finalist: Space Moose, in Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country (Adam Thornton; Glulx).
- Finalist: Cheryl, in The Weapon (Sean Barrett; Z-code).
- Best Individual PC: The Kissing Bandit, in The Tale of the Kissing Bandit (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Finalist: Aubrey Foil, in The Beetmonger's Journal (Scott Starkey; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Helen Tsakis, in Best of Three (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Delarion Yar, in Fallacy of Dawn (Robb Sherwin; Hugo).
- Finalist: Troy Sterling, in Fine Tuned (Dennis G. Jerz; Z-code).
- Best Use of Medium: The Gostak (Carl Muckenhoupt; Z-code).
- Finalist: Best of Three (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Heroes (Sean Barrett; Z-code).
- Finalist: Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle (Ola Sverre Bauge, Steve Bernard, Jon Blask, John Cater, Liza Daly, David Dyte, Stephen Granade, Iain Merrick, Rob Noyes, Dan Schmidt, Dan Shiovitz, Emily Short, J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Finalist: Textfire Golf (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
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Links
- Nominees for 2001. See the list of all eligible games from 2001. First-round voting deadline is Sunday, February 10, 2002, midnight EST.
- Finalists for 2001. Second-round voting deadline was Friday, February 22, 2002.
- Winning Games of 2001. Summary of the results, as posted at XYZZYnews.
- The award ceremony took place on Saturday, March 9, 2002 in ifMUD's Massive Auditorium at 4:00 Eastern Time.
- The 2001 XYZZY Awards Ceremony at Brass Lantern, with links to the transcript both with and without the peanut-gallery comments.
