XYZZY Awards 2003
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| XYZZY Awards 2003 | |
|---|---|
| Competition | |
| Part of series | XYZZY Awards |
| Results | |
| Winner: Best Individual PC | Episode in the Life of an Artist |
| Winner: Best Individual Puzzle | The Recruit |
| Winner: Best NPCs | City of Secrets |
| Winner: Best Puzzles | Gourmet |
| Winner: Best Use of Medium | ASCII and the Argonauts |
| Finalist: Best Game | City of Secrets |
| Finalist: Best Game | Risorgimento Represso |
| Finalist: Best Game | Scavenger |
| Finalist: Best Game | To Hell in a Hamper |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | City of Secrets |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | Narcolepsy |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | Scavenger |
| Finalist: Best Individual NPC | Shadows on the mirror |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | Gourmet |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | Narcolepsy |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | Shadows on the mirror |
| Finalist: Best Individual PC | Slouching Towards Bedlam |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle (twice) | Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus |
| Finalist: Best Individual Puzzle (twice) | Risorgimento Represso |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Narcolepsy |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Risorgimento Represso |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Shadows on the mirror |
| Finalist: Best NPCs | Slouching Towards Bedlam |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Inevitable |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Risorgimento Represso |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | Scavenger |
| Finalist: Best Puzzles | The Erudition Chamber |
| Finalist: Best Setting | City of Secrets |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Gourmet |
| Finalist: Best Setting | Narcolepsy |
| Finalist: Best Setting | To Hell in a Hamper |
| Finalist: Best Story | City of Secrets |
| Finalist: Best Story | Narcolepsy |
| Finalist: Best Story | Redemption |
| Finalist: Best Story | To Hell in a Hamper |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | Narcolepsy |
| Finalist: Best Use of Medium | Slouching Towards Bedlam |
| Finalist: Best Writing | City of Secrets |
| Finalist: Best Writing | Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus |
| Finalist: Best Writing | Slouching Towards Bedlam |
| Finalist: Best Writing | To Hell in a Hamper |
| Finalist: Best use of Medium | To Hell in a Hamper |
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2003 XYZZY Award Winners
- Best Game: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Best Writing: Narcolepsy (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
- Best Story: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Best Setting: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Best Puzzles: Gourmet (Aaron A. Reed; Z-code).
- Best NPCs: City of Secrets (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Best Individual Puzzle: The purple room in The Recruit (Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
- Best Individual NPC: Triage in Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Best Individual PC: The player character in Episode in the Life of an Artist (Peter Eastman; TADS 2).
- Best Use of Medium: ASCII and the Argonauts (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
2003 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists
- Best Game: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Finalist: City of Secrets (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Risorgimento Represso (Michael Coyne; Z-code).
- Finalist: Scavenger (Quintin Stone; TADS 2).
- Finalist: To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; ADRIFT).
- Best Writing: Narcolepsy (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
- Finalist: City of Secrets (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus (Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short; TADS 3).
- Finalist: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Finalist: To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; ADRIFT).
- Best Story: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Finalist: City of Secrets (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Narcolepsy (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
- Finalist: Redemption (Kathleen M. Fischer; Z-code).
- Finalist: To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; ADRIFT).
- Best Setting: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Finalist: City of Secrets (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Gourmet (Aaron A. Reed; Z-code).
- Finalist: Narcolepsy (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
- Finalist: To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; ADRIFT).
- Best Puzzles: Gourmet (Aaron A. Reed; Z-code).
- Finalist: The Erudition Chamber (Daniel Freas; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Inevitable (Kathleen M. Fischer; Z-code).
- Finalist: Risorgimento Represso (Michael Coyne; Z-code).
- Finalist: Scavenger (Quintin Stone; TADS 2).
- Best NPCs: City of Secrets (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Narcolepsy (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
- Finalist: Risorgimento Represso (Michael Coyne; Z-code).
- Finalist: Shadows on the Mirror (Chrysoula Tzavelas; TADS 3).
- Finalist: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Best Individual Puzzle: The purple room in The Recruit (Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Escaping the quicksand in Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus (Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short; TADS 3).
- Finalist: Making the sandwich in Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus (Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short; TADS 3).
- Finalist: Creating the black powder in Risorgimento Represso (Michael Coyne; Z-code).
- Finalist: Getting into the farm in Risorgimento Represso (Michael Coyne; Z-code).
- Best Individual NPC: Triage in Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Finalist: The bookseller in City of Secrets (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Corvallis Oregon in Narcolepsy (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
- Finalist: Iona in Scavenger (Quintin Stone; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Galen in Shadows on the Mirror (Chrysoula Tzavelas; TADS 3).
- Best Individual PC: The player character in Episode in the Life of an Artist (Peter Eastman; TADS 2).
- Finalist: The chef in Gourmet (Aaron A. Reed; Z-code).
- Finalist: Eugene Oregon in Narcolepsy (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
- Finalist: Enra in Shadows on the Mirror (Chrysoula Tzavelas; TADS 3).
- Finalist: Dr. Thomas Xavier in Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Best Use of Medium: ASCII and the Argonauts (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Finalist: City of Secrets (Emily Short; Glulx).
- Finalist: Narcolepsy (Adam Cadre; Glulx).
- Finalist: Slouching Towards Bedlam (Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster; Z-code).
- Finalist: To Hell in a Hamper (J. J. Guest; ADRIFT).
Links
- Nominees for 2003 (archive). List of all eligible games from 2002. First-round voting deadline was Tuesday, February 10, 2004, midnight EST.
- Finalists for 2003 (archive). Second-round voting deadline was Sunday, February 22, 2004.
- Winning Games of 2003 (archive). Summary of the results, as posted at XYZZYnews.
- The awards ceremony was held on March 2nd, 2004, in ifMUD's Massive Auditorium.
- XYZZY Awards Transcript (archive) - The XYZZYnews's transcript of the awards ceremony is all on one page, and includes the peanut-gallery comments.
- The 2003 XYZZY Awards Ceremony at Brass Lantern, with links to the transcript both with and without the peanut-gallery comments.
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