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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).

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XYZZY Awards Transcript - The XYZZYnews's transcript of the awards ceremony is all on one page, and includes the peanut-gallery comments.

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+==2003 XYZZY Award Winners==
+* <b>Best Game</b>: ''Slouching Towards Bedlam'' ([[Daniel Ravipinto]] and [[Star Foster]]; [[Z-code]]).
+* <b>Best Writing</b>: ''Narcolepsy'' ([[Adam Cadre]]; [[Glulx]]).
+* <b>Best Story</b>: ''Slouching Towards Bedlam'' ([[Daniel Ravipinto]] and [[Star Foster]]; [[Z-code]]).
+* <b>Best Setting</b>: ''Slouching Towards Bedlam'' ([[Daniel Ravipinto]] and [[Star Foster]]; [[Z-code]]).
+* <b>Best Puzzles</b>: ''Gourmet'' ([[Aaron A. Reed]]; [[Z-code]]).
+* <b>Best NPCs</b>: ''City of Secrets'' ([[Emily Short]]; [[Glulx]]).
+* <b>Best Individual Puzzle</b>: The purple room in ''The Recruit'' ([[Mike Sousa]]; [[TADS 2]]).
+* <b>Best Individual NPC</b>: Triage in ''Slouching Towards Bedlam'' ([[Daniel Ravipinto]] and [[Star Foster]]; [[Z-code]]).
+* <b>Best Individual PC</b>: The player character in ''Episode in the Life of an Artist'' ([[Peter Eastman]]; [[TADS 2]]).
+* <b>Best Use of Medium</b>: ''ASCII and the Argonauts'' ([[J. Robinson Wheeler]]; [[Z-code]]).
 ==2003 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists==