XYZZY Awards 2000
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2000 XYZZY Award Winners
- Best Game: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Best Writing: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Best Story: My Angel (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Best Setting: Shade (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
- Best Puzzles: Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
- Best NPCs: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Best Individual Puzzle: The whole game of Rematch (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2).
- Best Individual NPC: Galatea, in Galatea (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Best Individual PC: Rameses Alexander Moran, in Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
- Best Use of Medium: Shrapnel (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
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2000 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists
- Best Game: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Finalist: Galatea (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; Z-code).
- Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
- Finalist: Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
- Best Writing: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: My Angel (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
- Finalist: Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
- Finalist: You are a Chef! (Dan Shiovitz; TADS 2).
- Best Story: My Angel (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Finalist: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Finalist: Heroine's Mantle (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
- Finalist: LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; Z-code).
- Finalist: Masquerade (Kathleen M. Fischer; Z-code).
- Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
- Finalist: Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
- Finalist: Shrapnel (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Best Setting: Shade (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
- Finalist: LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; Z-code).
- Finalist: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: Nevermore (Nate Cull; Z-code).
- Finalist: Shrapnel (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Best Puzzles: Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
- Finalist: Augmented Fourth (Brian Uri; Z-code).
- Finalist: Dinner with Andre (Liza Daly; Z-code).
- Finalist: The End Means Escape (Steve Kodat; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Heroine's Mantle (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
- Finalist: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: Nevermore (Nate Cull; Z-code).
- Best NPCs: Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Finalist: Galatea (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: Heroine's Mantle (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
- Finalist: Kaged (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
- Finalist: Punk Points (Jim Munroe; Z-code).
- Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
- Best Individual Puzzle: The whole game of Rematch (Andrew Pontious; TADS 2).
- Finalist: The whole game of 9:05 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: The mannequin, in Above and Beyond! (Mike Sousa; TADS 2).
- Finalist: The letter rooms, in Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
- Finalist: The recursive room, in Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Best Individual NPC: Galatea, in Galatea (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: The King, in Augmented Fourth (Brian Uri; Z-code).
- Finalist: Melvin, in Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Finalist: The alien, in Fail-Safe (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Finalist: Angel, in My Angel (Jon Ingold; Z-code).
- Best Individual PC: Rameses Alexander Moran, in Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
- Finalist: [unspecified], in Being Andrew Plotkin (J. Robinson Wheeler; Z-code).
- Finalist: The MULE, in LASH -- Local Asynchronous Satellite Hookup (Paul O'Brian; Z-code).
- Finalist: The alchemist, in Nevermore (Nate Cull; Z-code).
- Finalist: The player character in Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
- Best Use of Medium: Shrapnel (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
- Finalist: Ad Verbum (Nick Montfort; Z-code).
- Finalist: Metamorphoses (Emily Short; Z-code).
- Finalist: Rameses (Stephen Bond; Z-code).
- Finalist: Shade (Andrew Plotkin as "Ampe R. Sand"; Z-code).
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Links
- Nominees for 2000. See the list of all eligible games from 2000. First-round voting deadline was Sunday, February 18, 2001, midnight EST.
- Finalists for 2000. Second-round voting deadline was Friday, March 9, 2001.
- Winning Games of 2000. Summary of the results, as posted at XYZZYnews.
- The winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD on Sunday, March 11, 2001.
- XYZZYnews Award Ceremony 2000 - Andrew Plotkin's transcript of the ceremony, presented in two columns: the actual ceremony and room chatter on the left, and peanut gallery comments on the right.
- The 2000 XYZZY Awards Ceremony at Brass Lantern, with links to the transcript both with and without the peanut-gallery comments.
