XYZZY Awards 1997
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| XYZZY Awards 1997 | |
|---|---|
| Competition | |
| Part of series | XYZZY Awards |
| Results | |
| Winner: Best Individual NPC | She's Got a Thing for a Spring |
| Winner: Best Individual Puzzle | The Edifice |
| Winner: Best NPCs | The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang |
| Winner: Best Puzzles | The Edifice |
| Winner: Best Setting | A Bear's Night Out |
| Winner: Best Use of Medium | The Tempest |
| Winner: Best Writing | Sunset Over Savannah |
| Finalist: Best Game | Babel |
| Finalist: Best Game | Glowgrass |
| Finalist: Best Game | The Edifice |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | I-0 |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | Sins Against Mimesis |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | The Edifice |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | The Lost Spellmaker |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | Babel |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | The Lost Spellmaker |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle | Heist |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle | Sins Against Mimesis |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle | Sunset Over Savannah |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Everybody Loves a Parade |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | I-0 |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | She's Got a Thing for a Spring |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Zero Sum Game |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Babel |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Everybody Loves a Parade |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Heist |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Zero Sum Game |
| Finalist: Best Setting | I-0 |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Mercy |
| Finalist: Best Setting | She's Got a Thing for a Spring |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Sins Against Mimesis |
| Finalist: Best Story | Glowgrass |
| Finalist: Best Story | I-0 |
| Finalist: Best Story | Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit |
| Finalist: Best Story | Mercy |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | A New Day |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | I-0 |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | Sunset Over Savannah |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | The Space Under the Window |
| Finalist: Best Writing | Babel |
| Finalist: Best Writing | I-0 |
| Finalist: Best Writing | She's Got a Thing for a Spring |
| Finalist: Best Writing | The Space Under the Window |
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1997 XYZZY Award Winners
- Best Game: I-0 a.k.a. Interstate Zero (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Best Writing: Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum; TADS 2).
- Best Story: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
- Best Setting: A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte; Z-code).
- Best Puzzles: The Edifice (Lucian Smith; Z-code).
- Best NPCs: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
- Best Individual Puzzle: The language puzzle, in The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith; Z-code).
- Best Individual NPC: Bob, in She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
- Best Individual PC: Tracy Valencia, in I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Best Use of Medium: The Tempest (Graham Nelson; Z-code).
1997 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists
- Best Game: I-0 a.k.a. Interstate Zero (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
- Finalist: A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith; Z-code).
- Finalist: Glowgrass (Nate Cull; TADS 2).
- Best Writing: Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
- Finalist: I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Space Under the Window (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
- Best Story: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Glowgrass (Nate Cull; TADS 2).
- Finalist: I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit (Ian Ball and Marcus Young; Z-code).
- Finalist: Mercy (Chris Klimas; Z-code).
- Best Setting: A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte; Z-code).
- Finalist I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: Mercy (Chris Klimas; Z-code).
- Finalist: She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
- Finalist: Sins Against Mimesis (Adam Thornton; Z-code).
- Best Puzzles: The Edifice (Lucian Smith; Z-code).
- Finalist: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Everybody Loves a Parade (Cody Sandifer; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Heist (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
- Finalist: Zero Sum Game (Cody Sandifer; TADS 2).
- Best NPCs: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Everybody Loves a Parade (Cody Sandifer; TADS 2).
- Finalist: I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
- Finalist: Zero Sum Game (Cody Sandifer; TADS 2).
- Best Individual Puzzle: The language puzzle, in The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith; Z-code).
- Finalist: Setting the digital clock, in Heist (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
- Finalist: The whole game of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die (Rob Noyes; Z-code).
- Finalist: Defeating the Kunkel, in Sins Against Mimesis (Adam Thornton; Z-code).
- Finalist: Building the sand castle, in Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum; TADS 2).
- Best Individual NPC: Bob, in She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Stranger, in The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Taco Junta girl, in I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: The cow, in The Lost Spellmaker (Neil James Brown; Z-code).
- Finalist: The devil, in Sins Against Mimesis (Adam Thornton; Z-code).
- Best Individual PC: Tracy Valencia, in I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: David, in Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
- Finalist: The bear, in A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte; Z-code).
- Finalist: Improv, in The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Mattie, in The Lost Spellmaker (Neil James Brown; Z-code).
- Best Use of Medium: The Tempest (Graham Nelson; Z-code).
- Finalist: I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: A New Day (Jonathan Fry; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Space Under the Window (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
- Finalist: Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum; TADS 2).
Links
- Winning Games of 1997 (archive).
- The winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD, February 5, 1998.
- Transcript of the ceremony (archive) - from XYZZYnews #15.
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