XYZZY Awards 2000

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2000 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
• Best Writing: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
• Best Story: My Angel (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
• Best Setting: Shade (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: The whole game of Rematch (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2).
• Best Individual NPC: Galatea, in Galatea (Emily Short; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: Rameses Alexander Moran, in Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Shrapnel (Adam Cadre; Z-code).

2000 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Galatea (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
• Best Writing: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: My Angel (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: You are a Chef! (Dan Shiovitz; TADS 2).
• Best Story: My Angel (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Heroine's Mantle (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
  • Finalist: LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Masquerade (Kathleen M. Fischer; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Shrapnel (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Setting: Shade (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Nevermore (Nate Cull; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Shrapnel (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Augmented Fourth (Brian Uri; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Dinner with Andre (Liza Daly; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The End Means Escape (Steve Kodat; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Heroine's Mantle (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Nevermore (Nate Cull; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Galatea (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Heroine's Mantle (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Kaged (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Punk Points (Jim Munroe; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: The whole game of Rematch (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The whole game of 9:05 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The mannequin, in Above and Beyond! (Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The letter rooms, in Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The recursive room, in Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
• Best Individual NPC: Galatea, in Galatea (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The King, in Augmented Fourth (Brian Uri; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Melvin, in Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The alien, in Fail-Safe (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Angel, in My Angel (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: Rameses Alexander Moran, in Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
  • Finalist: [unspecified], in Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The MULE, in LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The alchemist, in Nevermore (Nate Cull; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The player character in Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Shrapnel (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).

Links

• Nominees for 2000 (archive). See the list of all eligible games from 2000. First-round voting deadline was Sunday, February 18, 2001, midnight EST.
• Finalists for 2000 (archive). Second-round voting deadline was Friday, March 9, 2001.
• Winning Games of 2000 (archive). Summary of the results, as posted at XYZZYnews.
• The winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD on Sunday, March 11, 2001.
  • XYZZYnews Award Ceremony 2000 - Andrew Plotkin's transcript of the ceremony, presented in two columns: the actual ceremony and room chatter on the left, and peanut gallery comments on the right.
  • The 2000 XYZZY Awards Ceremony at Brass Lantern, with links to the transcript both with and without the peanut-gallery comments.