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* [http://www.eblong.com/zarf/award-transcript2.html Transcript of the ceremony] | * {{link|deadurl=http://www.xyzzynews.com/98nominees.html|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303182535/http://www.xyzzynews.com/98nominees.html|Finalists for 1998}}. | ||
* {{link|deadurl=http://www.xyzzynews.com/98winners.html|archive=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624144927/http://www.xyzzynews.com/98winners.html|Winning Games of 1998}}. | |||
* The award ceremony took place on February 6, 1999 in [[ifMUD]]'s Massive Auditorium. | |||
** [http://www.eblong.com/zarf/award-transcript2.html Transcript of the ceremony] - courtesy of [[Andrew Plotkin]]. | |||
[[Category:XYZZY Awards]] [[Category:1998]] | [[Category:XYZZY Awards]] [[Category:1998]] | ||
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Browse the XYZZY Awards either by year:
- 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022
Or by category:
- Best Game | Best Writing | Best Story | Best Setting | Best Puzzles | Best NPCs | Best Individual Puzzle | Best Individual NPC | Best Individual PC | Best Use of Medium (1997–2009) | Best Implementation (2010–) | Best Use of Innovation (2010–) | Best Technological Development (2010–) | Best Supplemental Materials (2010–2013) | Best Use of Multimedia (2014–) | Other awards
See also:
On February 6, 1999, the winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD.
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).
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).
Links
- Finalists for 1998 (archive).
- Winning Games of 1998 (archive).
- The award ceremony took place on February 6, 1999 in ifMUD's Massive Auditorium.
- Transcript of the ceremony - courtesy of Andrew Plotkin.