XYZZY Awards 2001
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| XYZZY Awards 2001 | |
|---|---|
| Competition | |
| Part of series | XYZZY Awards |
| Results | |
| Winner: Best Game | All Roads |
| Winner: Best Individual NPC | Fallacy of Dawn |
| Winner: Best Individual PC | The Tale of the Kissing Bandit |
| Winner: Best NPCs | Pytho's Mask |
| Winner: Best Puzzles | First Things First |
| Winner: Best Setting | All Roads |
| Winner: Best Story | All Roads |
| Winner: Best Writing | Fallacy of Dawn |
| Finalist: Best Game | Best of Three |
| Finalist: Best Game | Fallacy of Dawn |
| Finalist: Best Game | First Things First |
| Finalist: Best Game | Pytho's Mask |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | Best of Three |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | The Gostak |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | The Weapon |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | Best of Three |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | Fallacy of Dawn |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | Fine-Tuned |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | The Beetmonger's Journal |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle | All Roads |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle | Pytho's Mask |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle | Silicon Castles |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle | Textfire Golf |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle | Vicious Cycles |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Best of Three |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Fallacy of Dawn |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Textfire Golf |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | You Are Here |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Degeneracy |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | The Gostak |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | The Weapon |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Vicious Cycles |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Fallacy of Dawn |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Fine-Tuned |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Heroes |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Pytho's Mask |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Textfire Golf |
| Finalist: Best Story | Fallacy of Dawn |
| Finalist: Best Story | First Things First |
| Finalist: Best Story | Pytho's Mask |
| Finalist: Best Story | Vicious Cycles |
| Finalist: Best Story | Voices |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | Best of Three |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | Heroes |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | Textfire Golf |
| Finalist: Best Writing | All Roads |
| Finalist: Best Writing | Best of Three |
| Finalist: Best Writing | No Time To Squeal |
| Finalist: Best Writing | Pytho's Mask |
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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).
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).
Links
- Nominees for 2001 (archive). See the list of all eligible games from 2001. First-round voting deadline is Sunday, February 10, 2002, midnight EST.
- Finalists for 2001 (archive). Second-round voting deadline was Friday, February 22, 2002.
- Winning Games of 2001 (archive). 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.
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