XYZZY Awards 1999

XYZZY Awards 1999
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Part of series	XYZZY Awards
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Results
Winner: Best Story	Worlds Apart
Winner: Best Use of Medium	Aisle
Winner: Best Writing	For A Change
Finalist: Best Game	For A Change
Finalist: Best Game	Lunatix: The Insanity Circle
Finalist: Best Game	The Mulldoon Legacy
Finalist: Best Game	Worlds Apart
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Exhibition
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Hunter, in Darkness
Finalist: Best Individual NPC	Worlds Apart
Finalist: Best Individual PC	A Day for Soft Food
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Aisle
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Exhibition
Finalist: Best Individual PC	Winchester's Nightmare
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	Break-In
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	For A Change
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man
Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle	The Mulldoon Legacy
Finalist: Best NPCs	A Day for Soft Food
Finalist: Best NPCs	The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man
Finalist: Best NPCs	The Mulldoon Legacy
Finalist: Best NPCs	Worlds Apart
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Lunatix: The Insanity Circle
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Varicella
Finalist: Best Puzzles	Worlds Apart
Finalist: Best Setting	Erehwon
Finalist: Best Setting	For A Change
Finalist: Best Setting	The Mulldoon Legacy
Finalist: Best Setting	Winter Wonderland
Finalist: Best Setting	Worlds Apart
Finalist: Best Story	Aisle
Finalist: Best Story	Common Ground
Finalist: Best Story	Lunatix: The Insanity Circle
Finalist: Best Story	The Mulldoon Legacy
Finalist: Best Story	Varicella
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Hunter, in Darkness
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Six Stories
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Varicella
Finalist: Best Use of Medium	Worlds Apart
Finalist: Best Writing	Exhibition
Finalist: Best Writing	Lunatix: The Insanity Circle
Finalist: Best Writing	Varicella
Finalist: Best Writing	Worlds Apart
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The winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD. (Link to transcript should go here.) (Link to the full list of nominees for 1999.)

1999 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Writing: For a Change (Dan Schmidt; Z-code).
• Best Story: Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).
• Best Setting: Hunter, in Darkness (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: The Mulldoon Legacy (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: The maze, in Hunter, in Darkness (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Individual NPC: Miss Sierra, in Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: Primo Varicella, in Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Aisle (Sam Barlow; Z-code).

1999 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: For a Change (Dan Schmidt; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Lunatix: The Insanity Circle (Mike Snyder; MS-DOS).
  • Finalist: The Mulldoon Legacy (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).
• Best Writing: For a Change (Dan Schmidt; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Exhibition (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Lunatix: The Insanity Circle (Mike Snyder; MS-DOS).
  • Finalist: Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).
• Best Story: Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Aisle (Sam Barlow; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Common Ground (Stephen Granade; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Lunatix: The Insanity Circle (Mike Snyder; MS-DOS).
  • Finalist: The Mulldoon Legacy (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Setting: Hunter, in Darkness (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Erehwon (Richard Litherland; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: For a Change (Dan Schmidt; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Mulldoon Legacy (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Winter Wonderland (Laura A. Knauth; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).
• Best Puzzles: The Mulldoon Legacy (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Lunatix: The Insanity Circle (Mike Snyder; MS-DOS).
  • Finalist: Not Just An Ordinary Ballerina (Jim Aikin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).
• Best NPCs: Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: A Day for Soft Food (Tod Levi; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Mulldoon Legacy (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).
• Best Individual Puzzle: The maze, in Hunter, in Darkness (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The water puzzle, in Break-In (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Stopping the flood, in For a Change (Dan Schmidt; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The clone puzzle, in The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Getting the light upstairs, in The Mulldoon Legacy (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
    • Note: The gypsum flowers, in The Jewel of Knowledge (Francesco Bova; Z-code), was never actually nominated. This was a joke made during the ceremony.
• Best Individual NPC: Miss Sierra, in Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Anatoly Domokov, in Exhibition (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The wumpus, in Hunter, in Darkness (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Princess Charlotte, in Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Lyric/Echo, in Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).
• Best Individual PC: Primo Varicella, in Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The player character in Aisle (Sam Barlow; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The cat, in A Day for Soft Food (Tod Levi; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The wife, in Exhibition (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Sarah, in Winchester's Nightmare (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Aisle (Sam Barlow; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Hunter, in Darkness (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Six Stories (Neil K. Guy; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Varicella (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Worlds Apart (Suzanne Britton; TADS 2).

Links

• Nominees for 1999 (archive). First-round voting deadline was Thursday, January 27, 2000, midnight EST.
  • Nominees announced for 1999 XYZZY Awards - raif thread, begun January 29, 2000.
• Finalists for 1999 (archive). Second-round voting deadline was Friday, February 11, 2000.
• Winning Games of 1999 (archive).
• The award ceremony itself took place on Saturday, February 12, 2000 at 4 pm EST on ifMUD.
  • XYZZYnews Award Ceremony: 1999 - Ceremony transcript by Andrew Plotkin, presented in a large table with the peanut-gallery comments in the second column.