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

80 Days
80 Days
2014
Best Game
Best Story
Best Use of Multimedia
Sunless Sea
Sunless Sea
2015
Best Setting
Birdland
Birdland
2015
Best Game
Best Writing
Best Story
Best NPCs
Best Individual NPC (Bell Park)
Best Individual PC (Bridget)
Varicella
Varicella
1999
Best Game
Best NPCs
Best Individual NPC (Miss Sierra)
Best Individual PC (Primo Varicella)
Tough Beans
2005
Best Individual PC (Wendy Little)
Sub Rosa
Sub Rosa
2015
Best Puzzles
4x4 Archipelago
4x4 Archipelago
2021
Best Use of Innovation (tie)
Counterfeit Monkey
Counterfeit Monkey
2012
Best Game
Best Setting
Best Puzzles
Best Individual PC (Alexandra)
Best Implementation
Turandot
Turandot
2019
Best Story (tie)
Best Individual NPC (Turandot)
Last Day of Summer
2011
Best Individual Puzzle (The hat mystery; 'meta-puzzle' with Cold Iron, Doctor M, and Playing Games)
Once and Future
Once and Future
1998
Best NPCs
Alias 'The Magpie'
Alias 'The Magpie'
2018
Best Individual PC
Nightfall
Nightfall
2008
Best Story
Best Setting
The Absence of Miriam Lane
The Absence of Miriam Lane
2022
Best Writing
The Edifice
The Edifice
1997
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (The language puzzle)
Rogue of the Multiverse
Rogue of the Multiverse
2010
Best Individual NPC (Dr Sliss)
Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale
Jolly Good: Cakes and Ale
2020
Best Writing
Best Setting
Best NPCs
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory
Laid Off from the Synesthesia Factory
2015
Best Use of Innovation
Shade
Shade
2000
Best Setting
Small World
1996
Best Setting
The Dreamhold
The Dreamhold
2004
Best Puzzles
Best Use of Medium
An Act of Murder
An Act of Murder
2007
Best Individual Puzzle (Identifying the killer)
First Things First
First Things First
2001
Best Puzzles
Kissing the Buddha's Feet
1996
Best NPCs
Photopia
Photopia
1998
Best Writing
Best Story
Alabaster
Alabaster
2009
Best Writing
Best Individual NPC (Snow White)
Cannery Vale
Cannery Vale
2018
Best Setting
The Grown-Up Detective Agency
The Grown-Up Detective Agency
2022
Best Individual PC (Bell Park)
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds
16 Ways to Kill a Vampire at McDonalds
2016
Best Puzzles
Shrapnel
Shrapnel
2000
Best Use of Medium
AI Dungeon
AI Dungeon
2019
Best Use of Innovation
Best Technological Development
Narcolepsy
Narcolepsy
2003
Best Writing
The Wizard Sniffer
The Wizard Sniffer
2017
Best Game
Best Story
Best NPCs
Best Individual Puzzle (getting past the dragon)
Best Individual NPC (Squire Tuck)
Coloratura
Coloratura
2013
Best Game
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (creating the meat monster)
Best Individual PC (The Aqueosity)
The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo
The Uncle Who Works for Nintendo
2014
Best Individual PC (the PC)
Sting of the Wasp
Sting of the Wasp
2004
Best NPCs
Best Individual PC (Julia)
18 Cadence
18 Cadence
2013
Best Use of Innovation
Cactus Blue Motel
Cactus Blue Motel
2016
Best Setting
Best NPCs (tie)
A Fine Day for Reaping
A Fine Day for Reaping
2007
Best Story
Cold Iron
Cold Iron
2011
Best Individual Puzzle (The hat mystery; 'meta-puzzle' with Doctor M, Last Day of Summer, and Playing Games)
Little Blue Men
Little Blue Men
1998
Best Individual PC
Midnight. Swordfight.
Midnight. Swordfight.
2015
Best Implementation
Pytho's Mask
Pytho's Mask
2001
Best NPCs
Babel
Babel
1997
Best Story
De Baron
De Baron
2006
Best Use of Medium
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home
Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home
2010
Best Writing
Fifteen Minutes
Fifteen Minutes
2014
Best Individual Puzzle (Sequence of time-travel)
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder
Captain Verdeterre's Plunder
2013
Best Individual NPC (Captain Verdeterre)
The Impossible Bottle
The Impossible Bottle
2020
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (leaving the house)
Best Implementation
Best Use of Innovation
The Recruit
The Recruit
2003
Best Individual Puzzle (The Purple Room)
Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing
Ryan Veeder's Authentic Fly Fishing
2019
Best Implementation
Whom the Telling Changed
Whom the Telling Changed
2005
Best Individual NPC (the storyteller)
Will Not Let Me Go
Will Not Let Me Go
2017
Best Individual PC (Fred Strickland)
Beyond
Beyond
2005
Best Story
Best Individual Puzzle (Following the murderer)
Broken Legs
Broken Legs
2009
Best NPCs
Best Individual PC (Lottie Plum)
Necrotic Drift
Necrotic Drift
2004
Best Individual NPC (Audrey)
Creatures Such as We
Creatures Such as We
2014
Best NPCs
A Rope of Chalk
A Rope of Chalk
2020
Best Story
The Moon Watch
The Moon Watch
2008
Best Use of Medium
Worlds Apart
Worlds Apart
1999
Best Story
Zozzled
Zozzled
2019
Best Game (tie)
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (inspiring the artist)
Best Individual PC (Hazel Greene)
Guilded Youth
Guilded Youth
2012
Best NPCs
1958: Dancing with Fear
1958: Dancing with Fear
2017
Best Setting
Eat Me
Eat Me
2017
Best Writing
Best Implementation
Episode in the Life of an Artist
Episode in the Life of an Artist
2003
Best Individual PC (The PC)
Slouching Towards Bedlam
Slouching Towards Bedlam
2003
Best Game
Best Story
Best Setting
Best Individual NPC (Triage)
Gun Mute
Gun Mute
2008
Best Puzzles
The King of Shreds and Patches
The King of Shreds and Patches
2009
Best Setting (tie)
What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed
What Heart Heard Of, Ghost Guessed
2021
Best Game
Best Story
So Far
So Far
1996
Best Game
Best Writing
Best Puzzles
Best Individual Puzzle (Opening the gate)
Howling Dogs
Howling Dogs
2012
Best Writing
Best Story
Tapestry
Tapestry
1996
Best Story
ASCII and the Argonauts
ASCII and the Argonauts
2003
Best Use of Medium
Frobozz Magic Support
1996
Best Individual NPC (the burin)
Rat Chaos
Rat Chaos
2012
Best Individual NPC (New Rat City)
Vespers
Vespers
2005
Best Game
Best Writing
Best Setting
Best NPCs
All Things Devours
All Things Devours
2004
Best Individual Puzzle (the time puzzle)
Snack Time!
Snack Time!
2008
Best Individual PC (Hardy the Bulldog)
Superluminal Vagrant Twin
Superluminal Vagrant Twin
2016
Best Game
Best Implementation
The Elysium Enigma
The Elysium Enigma
2006
Best Game
Best Individual NPC (Leela)
Distress
Distress
2005
Best Puzzles
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
Black Mirror: Bandersnatch
2018
Best Use of Multimedia
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))
City of Secrets
City of Secrets
2003
Best NPCs
Excalibur
Excalibur
2021
Best Use of Innovation (tie)
The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang
1997
Best NPCs
Harmonia
Harmonia
2017
Best Use of Innovation
Best Use of Multimedia
Their Angelical Understanding
Their Angelical Understanding
2013
Best Writing
Secret Agent Cinder
Secret Agent Cinder
2015
Best Use of Multimedia
Rameses
Rameses
2000
Best Individual PC (Rameses)
Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires
Lady Thalia and the Seraskier Sapphires
2021
Best NPCs
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!
Brain Guzzlers from Beyond!
2015
Best Individual Puzzle (Understanding how the RPS cannon works)
PataNoir
2011
Best Puzzles
Aisle
Aisle
1999
Best Use of Medium
Grooverland
Grooverland
2021
Best Puzzles
The Ice-Bound Concordance
The Ice-Bound Concordance
2016
Best Use of Innovation
Best Use of Multimedia
Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road
Vampire: The Masquerade - Night Road
2020
Best Game
Erstwhile
Erstwhile
2018
Best Individual Puzzle (solving your murder)
The Libonotus Cup
The Libonotus Cup
2021
Best Individual Puzzle (the hair swap)
Best Implementation (tie)
Being Andrew Plotkin
Being Andrew Plotkin
2000
Best Game
Best NPCs

2 Comments

jakobvongunten

1 year ago

updated with 2021 results

jakobvongunten

2 months ago

2022 results added
jakobvongunten

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