XYZZY Awards 1998

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On February 6, 1999, the winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD. (Link to transcript should go here.) (Link to the full list of nominees for 1998.)

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).