XYZZY Awards 1996

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Note: The first XYZZY Awards ceremony was conducted via telnet on Saturday, February 8th, 1997.

1996 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Writing: So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Story: Tapestry (Daniel Ravipinto; Z-code).
• Best Setting: Small World (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2).
• Best Puzzles: So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Kissing the Buddha's Feet (Leon Lin; TADS 2).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Opening the gate, in So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Individual NPC Three way tie:
  • The burin, in Frobozz Magic Support (Nate Cull; TADS 2).
  • Evan, in Kissing the Buddha's Feet (Leon Lin; TADS 2).
  • The Devil in Small World (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2).

1996 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Light: Shelby's Addendum (Colm McCarthy; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Lost New York (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet (Graham Nelson; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Time: All Things Come to an End (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
• Best Writing: So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Aayela (Magnus Olsson; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Lost New York (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet (Graham Nelson; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Tapestry (Daniel Ravipinto; Z-code).
• Best Story: Tapestry (Daniel Ravipinto; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Delusions (C.E. Forman; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Lost New York (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Time: All Things Come to an End (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
• Best Setting: Small World (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Light: Shelby's Addendum (Colm McCarthy; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Lost New York (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Night at the Computer Center (Bonni Mierzejewska; Z-code).
  • Finalist: So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Frobozz Magic Support (Nate Cull; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Lost New York (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet (Graham Nelson; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Time: All Things Come to an End (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
• Best NPCs: Kissing the Buddha's Feet (Leon Lin; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Lost New York (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Small World (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Underoos that Ate New York (Gerry Kevin Wilson; 1994; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Wedding (Neil James Brown; Z-code).
• Best Individual Puzzle: Opening the gate, in So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The crystals, in Fear (Chuan-Tze Teo; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The elephant, in The Meteor, the Stone and a Long Glass of Sherbet (Graham Nelson; Z-code).
  • Finalist: (cramped, crawling), in So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Riding the creature, in So Far (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Individual NPC: The burin, in Frobozz Magic Support (Nate Cull; TADS 2);
  also Evan, in Kissing the Buddha's Feet (Leon Lin; TADS 2);
  and The Devil in Small World (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2). (It was a three-way tie.)
  • Finalist: Leo the Lemming, in Phlegm (Jason Dyer; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Christopher Robin, in Ralph (Miron Schmidt; Z-code).

Note that the award categories Best Individual PC and Best Use of Medium had not yet been created.

Links

• XYZZYnews Issue #13 Winners' Circle -- XYZZY Awards