xyzzy award winners

the annual interactive fiction awards. from newest (2022 as of this writing) to oldest

not on igdb:
Trapped in Time (Best Implementation, 2013 - physical/pdf CYOA story)
Best Technological Development (usually awarded to dev tools):
Inform 7 Build 10.1.0 (2022)
Gruescript (2021)
Adventuron (2020)
Dialog (2018)
Vorple for Glulx (2017)
Ink (2016)
Raconteur (2015)
Inform 7 6L02 (2014, tie)
Twine 2 (2014, tie)
Twine 1.4 (2013)
Vorple for Inform 7 (2012)
TADS 3.1 (2011)
Quixe (2010)

188 Games

A Bear's Night Out
A Bear's Night Out
1997
Best Setting
A Fine Day for Reaping
A Fine Day for Reaping
2007
Best Story
Animalia
Animalia
2018
Best Writing (tie)
Best NPCs
Aotearoa
Aotearoa
2010
Best Game
Best Setting
Best Puzzles
Best NPCs
Best Individual Puzzle (crossing the river)
Best Implementation
Best Use of Innovation
ASCII and the Argonauts
ASCII and the Argonauts
2003
Best Use of Medium
Bigger Than You Think
Bigger Than You Think
2012
Best Individual Puzzle
Broken Legs
Broken Legs
2009
Best NPCs
Best Individual PC (Lottie Plum)
Byzantine Perspective
Byzantine Perspective
2009
Best Individual Puzzle (Finding out how the goggles work)
Cannery Vale
Cannery Vale
2018
Best Setting
Cold Iron
Cold Iron
2011
Best Individual Puzzle (The hat mystery; 'meta-puzzle' with Doctor M, Last Day of Summer, and Playing Games)
Cryptozookeeper
Cryptozookeeper
2011
Best Game
Best Writing
Best Setting
Best NPCs
Best Individual NPC (Grimloft)
Deadline Enchanter
Deadline Enchanter
2007
Best Use of Medium
Distress
Distress
2005
Best Puzzles
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky
Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky
2002
Best Use of Medium
Episode in the Life of an Artist
Episode in the Life of an Artist
2003
Best Individual PC (The PC)
Excalibur
Excalibur
2021
Best Use of Innovation (tie)
Fairest
Fairest
2022
Best Story
Fallacy of Dawn
Fallacy of Dawn
2001
Best Writing
Best Individual NPC (Yahoweh Porn)
First Things First
First Things First
2001
Best Puzzles
Fish & Dagger
Fish & Dagger
2021
Best Use of Multimedia
For a Change
For a Change
1999
Best Writing
Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand
Gent Stickman vs Evil Meat Hand
2022
Best Use of Multimedia
Gourmet
Gourmet
2003
Best Puzzles
I.A.G. Alpha
I.A.G. Alpha
2018
Best Use of Innovation
Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi
Lady Thalia and the Rose of Rocroi
2022
Best NPCs
Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires
Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires
2021
Best NPCs
Last Day of Summer
2011
Best Individual Puzzle (The hat mystery; 'meta-puzzle' with Cold Iron, Doctor M, and Playing Games)
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
Mentula Macanus: Apocolocyntosis
2011
Best Individual PC (Mentula Macanus)
Muggle Studies
Muggle Studies
2012
Best Supplemental Materials (Feelies)
My Angel
My Angel
2000
Best Story
Mystery House Possessed
Mystery House Possessed
2005
Best Use of Medium
Nightfall
Nightfall
2008
Best Story
Best Setting
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
Ollie Ollie Oxen Free
2013
Best NPCs
Once and Future
Once and Future
1998
Best NPCs
PataNoir
2011
Best Puzzles
Playing Games
2011
Best Individual Puzzle (The hat mystery; 'meta-puzzle' with Cold Iron, Doctor M, and Last Day of Summer)
Prism
Prism
2022
Best Setting
Pytho's Mask
Pytho's Mask
2001
Best NPCs
Robin & Orchid
Robin & Orchid
2013
Best Setting
Sand-dancer
Sand-dancer
2010
Best Supplemental Materials (Creating Interactive Fiction with Inform 7, for which Sand-dancer is a supplement & example)
She's Got a Thing for a Spring
She's Got a Thing for a Spring
1997
Best Individual NPC (Bob)
Six
Six
2011
Best Implementation
Snack Time!
Snack Time!
2008
Best Individual PC (Hardy the Bulldog)
Solarium
Solarium
2013
Best Story
Sting
Sting
2021
Best Writing
Best Individual NPC (Liz)
Sunset Over Savannah
Sunset Over Savannah
1997
Best Writing
Tale of the Kissing Bandit
Tale of the Kissing Bandit
2001
Best Individual PC (The Kissing Bandit)
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman
Tales of the Traveling Swordsman
2006
Best Story
The Bones of Rosalinda
The Bones of Rosalinda
2022
Best Puzzles
Best Use of Innovation
The Elysium Enigma
The Elysium Enigma
2006
Best Game
Best Individual NPC (Leela)
The Fire Tower
The Fire Tower
2003
Best Setting
The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang
1997
Best NPCs
The Impossible Bottle
The Impossible Bottle
2020
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (leaving the house)
Best Implementation
Best Use of Innovation
The Life and Deaths of Doctor M
The Life and Deaths of Doctor M
2011
Best Individual Puzzle (The hat mystery; 'meta-puzzle' with Cold Iron, Last Day of Summer, and Playing Games)
The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens
The Little Match Girl 2: Annus Evertens
2022
Best Individual Puzzle (escape room)
The Magpie Takes the Train
The Magpie Takes the Train
2020
Best Individual NPC (the parrot) (tie)
The Mary Jane of Tomorrow
The Mary Jane of Tomorrow
2016
Best Individual Puzzle (customizing the robot)
Best Individual NPC (The Pine Nut Queen of Tomorrow (aka The Jenny of Tomorrow, aka the robot))
The Moonlit Tower
2002
Best Writing
The Moon Watch
The Moon Watch
2008
Best Use of Medium
The Mulldoon Legacy
The Mulldoon Legacy
1999
Best Puzzles
The Tempest
The Tempest
1997
Best Use of Medium
The Warbler's Nest
The Warbler's Nest
2010
Best Story
The Weight of a Soul
The Weight of a Soul
2021
Best Setting
Best Individual PC (Marid)
Best Implementation (tie)
Tough Beans
2005
Best Individual PC (Wendy Little)
Turandot
Turandot
2019
Best Story (tie)
Best Individual NPC (Turandot)
Vain Empires
Vain Empires
2020
Best Individual NPC (Kingfisher) (tie)
Varkana
Varkana
2007
Best Setting
Whom the Telling Changed
Whom the Telling Changed
2005
Best Individual NPC (the storyteller)
Zozzled
Zozzled
2019
Best Game (tie)
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (inspiring the artist)
Best Individual PC (Hazel Greene)
1958: Dancing with Fear
1958: Dancing with Fear
2017
Best Setting
All Roads
All Roads
2001
Best Game
Best Story
Best Setting
All Things Devours
All Things Devours
2004
Best Individual Puzzle (the time puzzle)
A Rope of Chalk
A Rope of Chalk
2020
Best Story
Babel
Babel
1997
Best Story
Being Andrew Plotkin
Being Andrew Plotkin
2000
Best Game
Best NPCs
Beyond
Beyond
2005
Best Story
Best Individual Puzzle (Following the murderer)
Blue Chairs
Blue Chairs
2004
Best Game
Best Writing
Best Story
Child's Play
Child's Play
2008
Best NPCs
Delightful Wallpaper
Delightful Wallpaper
2006
Best Writing
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (Navigating the mansion)
Best Individual PC (the PC)
Doppeljobs
Doppeljobs
2020
Best Individual PC (the doppelganger)
Earl Grey
Earl Grey
2009
Best Puzzles
Fifteen Minutes
Fifteen Minutes
2014
Best Individual Puzzle (Sequence of time-travel)
Floatpoint
Floatpoint
2006
Best Setting
Best NPCs
Foo Foo
Foo Foo
2016
Best Story
Best NPCs (tie)
Frobozz Magic Support
1996
Best Individual NPC (the burin)
Grooverland
Grooverland
2021
Best Puzzles
Guilded Youth
Guilded Youth
2012
Best NPCs
Heretic's Hope
Heretic's Hope
2019
Best Setting
Best Use of Multimedia (tie)
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home
2010
Best Writing
Hunter, in Darkness
Hunter, in Darkness
1999
Best Setting
Best Individual Puzzle (The Maze)
Kerkerkruip
Kerkerkruip
2011
Best Use of Innovation
Best Supplemental Materials (PDFs and screencast tutorials)
Little Blue Men
Little Blue Men
1998
Best Individual PC
Necrotic Drift
Necrotic Drift
2004
Best Individual NPC (Audrey)
Rameses
Rameses
2000
Best Individual PC (Rameses)
Rogue of the Multiverse
Rogue of the Multiverse
2010
Best Individual NPC (Dr Sliss)
Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing
Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing
2019
Best Implementation
Savoir-Faire
Savoir-Faire
2002
Best Game
Best Story
Best Puzzles
Best Individual PC (Pierre)
Small World
1996
Best Setting
So Far
So Far
1996
Best Game
Best Writing
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (Opening the gate)
Take
Take
2016
Best Writing

2 Comments

jakobvongunten

1 year ago

updated with 2021 results

jakobvongunten

3 months ago

2022 results added
jakobvongunten

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