XYZZY Awards 1998

XYZZY Awards 1998
Competition
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Part of series	XYZZY Awards
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IFDB event page	Event
IFDB series page	Series
Total entries
Results
Winner: Best Individual PC	Little Blue Men
Winner: Best NPCs	Once and Future
Winner: Best Setting	Anchorhead
Finalist: Best Game	Anchorhead
Finalist: Best Game	Little Blue Men
Finalist: Best Game	Once and Future
Finalist: Best Game	Photopia
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Anchorhead
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Enlightenment
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Mother Loose
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Photopia
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Bad Machine
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Muse: An Autumn Romance
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Spider And Web
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Zork: A Troll's Eye View
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Little Blue Men
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Losing Your Grip
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Photopia
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	The Plant (Entering the warehouse)
Finalist: Best NPCs	Guilty Bastards
Finalist: Best NPCs	Mother Loose
Finalist: Best NPCs	Muse: An Autumn Romance
Finalist: Best NPCs	Photopia
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Anchorhead
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Enlightenment
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Losing Your Grip
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Once and Future
Finalist: Best Setting	Losing Your Grip
Finalist: Best Setting	Muse: An Autumn Romance
Finalist: Best Setting	Once and Future
Finalist: Best Setting	Spider And Web
Finalist: Best Story	Anchorhead
Finalist: Best Story	Little Blue Men
Finalist: Best Story	Losing Your Grip
Finalist: Best Story	Spider And Web
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Bad Machine
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Once and Future
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Photopia
Finalist: Best Writing	Anchorhead
Finalist: Best Writing	Little Blue Men
Finalist: Best Writing	Muse: An Autumn Romance
Finalist: Best Writing	Spider And Web
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On February 6, 1999, the winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD.

1998 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Writing: Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Story: Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Setting: Anchorhead (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Once and Future (Gerry Kevin Wilson; TADS 2).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Getting out of the chair, from Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Individual NPC: The interrogator, in Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: The employee, in Little Blue Men (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).

1998 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Anchorhead (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Little Blue Men (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Once and Future (Gerry Kevin Wilson; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Writing: Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Anchorhead (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Little Blue Men (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Muse: An Autumn Romance (Christopher Huang; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Story: Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Anchorhead (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Little Blue Men (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Losing Your Grip (Stephen Granade; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Setting: Anchorhead (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Losing Your Grip (Stephen Granade; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Muse: An Autumn Romance (Christopher Huang; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Once and Future (Gerry Kevin Wilson; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Anchorhead (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Enlightenment (Taro Ogawa; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Losing Your Grip (Stephen Granade; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Once and Future (Gerry Kevin Wilson; TADS 2).
• Best NPCs: Once and Future (Gerry Kevin Wilson; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Guilty Bastards (Kent Tessman; Hugo).
  • Finalist: Mother Loose (Irene Callaci; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Muse: An Autumn Romance (Christopher Huang; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Getting out of the chair, from Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The snack machine, in Little Blue Men (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The granite cube, in Losing Your Grip (Stephen Granade; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Getting out of the maze, in Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Entering the warehouse, in The Plant (Michael J. Roberts; TADS 2).
• Best Individual NPC: The interrogator, in Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Michael, in Anchorhead (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The troll, in Enlightenment (Taro Ogawa; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The wolf, in Mother Loose (Irene Callaci; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Alley, in Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: The employee, in Little Blue Men (Michael Gentry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Mover #005, in Bad Machine (Dan Shiovitz; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Rev. Stephen Dawson, in Muse: An Autumn Romance (Christopher Huang; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The agent, in Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The troll, in Zork: A Troll's Eye View (Dylan O'Donnell; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Spider and Web (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés (Stephen Granade; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Bad Machine (Dan Shiovitz; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Once and Future (Gerry Kevin Wilson; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Photopia (Adam Cadre; Z-code).

Links

• Finalists for 1998 (archive).
• Winning Games of 1998 (archive).
• The award ceremony took place on February 6, 1999 in ifMUD's Massive Auditorium.
  • Transcript of the ceremony - courtesy of Andrew Plotkin.