XYZZY Awards 1998
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On February 6, 1999, the winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD.
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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).
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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).
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Links
- Finalists for 1998.
- Winning Games of 1998.
- The award ceremony took place on February 6, 1999 in ifMUD's Massive Auditorium.
- Transcript of the ceremony - courtesy of Andrew Plotkin.
