XYZZY Award for Best Use of Medium
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The XYZZY Award for Best Use of Medium is one of the annual awards given by XYZZYnews to works of interactive fiction. This award has been given since 1997. No specific criteria are given to voters, and the interpretation of what particular quality this award recognizes remains open; many voters choose to interpret this award as a recognition of particularly daring interpretations of the limits and abilities of interactive fiction, especially as regards the relationship between the player, narrator, and player character.
Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.
- 1997: The Tempest by Graham Nelson
- 1998: Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- 1999: Aisle by Sam Barlow
- 2000: shrapnel by Adam Cadre
- 2001: The Gostak by Carl Muckenhoupt
- 2002: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
- 2003: ASCII and the Argonauts by J. Robinson Wheeler
- 2004: The Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin