XYZZY Awards 2002

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Note: The ceremony for the XYZZY Awards of 2002 was conducted on the ifMUD on Sunday, March 2nd, 2003.

2002 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
• Best Writing: The Moonlit Tower (Yoon Ha Lee; Z-code).
• Best Story: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
• Best Setting: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery (Peter Nepstad; TADS 2).
• Best Puzzles: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Setting the traps in Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
• Best Individual NPC: Boldo in Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
• Best Individual PC: Pierre in Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky (Paul O'Brian; Glulx).

2002 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery (Peter Nepstad; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky (Paul O'Brian; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me! (Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
• Best Writing: The Moonlit Tower (Yoon Ha Lee; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky (Paul O'Brian; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me! (Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: When Help Collides (J. D. Berry; Z-code).
• Best Story: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Augustine (Terrence V. Koch; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Moonlit Tower (Yoon Ha Lee; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me! (Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: When Help Collides (J. D. Berry; Z-code).
• Best Setting: 1893: A World's Fair Mystery {Peter Nepstad; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Augustine (Terrence V. Koch; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky (Paul O'Brian; Glulx).
  • Finalist: The Moonlit Tower (Yoon Ha Lee; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky (Paul O'Brian; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Out of the Study (Anssi Raisanen; Alan).
  • Finalist: Tookie's Song (Jessica Knoch; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Forever Always (Iain Merrick; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: The Frenetic Five vs. the Seven Deadly Dwarves (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The PK Girl (Robert Goodwin; ADRIFT).
  • Finalist: Tookie's Song (Jessica Knoch; Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Setting the traps in Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
  • Finalist: The maze in Constraints (Martin Bays; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Entering the church in Forever Always (Iain Merrick; TADS 3).
  • Finalist: Decoding the letter in Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The computer password in Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me! (Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
• Best Individual NPC: Boldo in Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Emily in Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky (Paul O'Brian; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Musculo in Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Charles in The Temple (Johan Berntsson; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Nebusan Sedonkawa in When Help Collides (J. D. Berry; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: Pierre in Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Dutch Dapper in Dutch Dapper IV: The Final Voyage (Harry Hol; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Goldilocks in Goldilocks is a FOX! (J. J. Guest; ADRIFT).
  • Finalist: The janitor in Janitor (Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Jack Downer in Photograph (Steve Evans; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky (Paul O'Brian; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Lock & Key (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
  • Finalist: Photograph (Steve Evans; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Savoir-Faire (Emily Short; Z-code).
  • Finalist: When Help Collides (J. D. Berry; Z-code).

Links

• Nominees for 2002 (archive). See the list of all eligible games from 2002. First-round voting deadline was Friday, February 7, 2003, midnight EST.
• Finalists for 2002 (archive). Second-round voting deadline was Friday, February 21, 2003.
• Winning Games of 2002 (archive). Summary of the results, as posted at XYZZYnews.
• The award ceremony took place on Sunday, March 2, 2003 in ifMUD's Massive Auditorium at 1:30 p.m. Eastern Time.
  • 2002 XYZZY Awards: Abridged Transcript (archive)
  • The 2002 XYZZY Awards Ceremony at Brass Lantern, with links to the transcript both with and without the peanut-gallery comments.