XYZZY Awards 1997

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1997 XYZZY Award Winners

• Best Game: I-0 a.k.a. Interstate Zero (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Writing: Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum; TADS 2).
• Best Story: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
• Best Setting: A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: The Edifice (Lucian Smith; TADS 2).
• Best NPCs: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
• Best Individual Puzzle: The language puzzle, in The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith; TADS 2).
• Best Individual NPC: Bob, in She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: Tracy Valencia, in I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: The Tempest (Graham Nelson; Z-code).

1997 XYZZY Award Winners and Finalists

• Best Game: I-0 a.k.a. Interstate Zero (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Glowgrass (Nate Cull; TADS 2).
• Best Writing: Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Space Under the Window (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
• Best Story: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Glowgrass (Nate Cull; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit (Ian Ball and Marcus Young; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Mercy (Chris Klimas; Z-code).
• Best Setting: A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte; Z-code).
  • Finalist I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Mercy (Chris Klimas; Z-code).
  • Finalist: She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Sins Against Mimesis (Adam Thornton; Z-code).
• Best Puzzles: The Edifice (Lucian Smith; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Everybody Loves a Parade (Cody Sandifer; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Heist (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Zero Sum Game (Cody Sandifer; TADS 2).
• Best NPCs: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Everybody Loves a Parade (Cody Sandifer; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Zero Sum Game (Cody Sandifer; TADS 2).
• Best Individual Puzzle: The language puzzle, in The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Setting the digital clock, in Heist (Andy Phillips; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The whole game of Pick Up The Phone Booth And Die (Rob Noyes; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Defeating the Kunkel, in Sins Against Mimesis (Adam Thornton; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Building the sand castle, in Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum; TADS 2).
• Best Individual NPC: Bob, in She's Got a Thing for a Spring (Brent VanFossen; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Stranger, in The Edifice (Lucian P. Smith; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The Taco Junta girl, in I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The cow, in The Lost Spellmaker (Neil James Brown; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The devil, in Sins Against Mimesis (Adam Thornton; Z-code).
• Best Individual PC: Tracy Valencia, in I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: David, in Babel (Ian Finley; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: The bear, in A Bear's Night Out (David Dyte; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Improv, in The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang (Neil deMause; TADS 2).
  • Finalist: Mattie, in The Lost Spellmaker (Neil James Brown; Z-code).
• Best Use of Medium: The Tempest (Graham Nelson; Z-code).
  • Finalist: I-0 (Adam Cadre; Z-code).
  • Finalist: A New Day (Jonathan Fry; Z-code).
  • Finalist: The Space Under the Window (Andrew Plotkin; Z-code).
  • Finalist: Sunset Over Savannah (Ivan Cockrum; TADS 2).

Links

• Winning Games of 1997.
• The winners were announced in a live, online ceremony on ifMUD, February 5, 1998.
  • Transcript of the ceremony - from XYZZYnews #15.