iFiction

1998 XYZZY Awards

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Anchorhead
An interactive gothic
Play "Anchorhead"
Copyright © 1998 by Michael S. Gentry.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
1998 XYZZY Awards: Best Setting
A Lovecraftian horror tale, this game casts you in the role of a young woman who comes into the heritage of an ancestral mansion of a clan of relatives very far removed in the town of Anchorhead. Strange - why do the locals react the way they do whenever you ask about the house, or your relatives?

Little Blue Men
An interactive object lesson
Play "Little Blue Men"
Copyright © 1998 by Michael S. Gentry.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1998: 7th place and 2nd place Miss Congeniality award
1998 XYZZY Awards: Best Individual Player Character
This game is a joke. This game is a warning. This game is a satire. This game is inspired in equal parts by Vaclav Havel's "The Memorandum" and Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas". This game is a big, stupid shaggy dog story.

Once and Future
Copyright © 1998 by Kevin Wilson.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
1998 XYZZY Awards: Best Non-Player Characters

Photopia
Play original IFComp 1998 entry - black & white version
Play original IFComp 1998 entry - color version
Play Spanish translation (version 1.23.1E)
Play version 1.30
Copyright © 1998 by Adam Cadre.
Copyright © 1999 by Zak McKraken (Spanish translation).
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1998: 1st place and 1st place Miss Congeniality award
1998 XYZZY Awards: Best Story and Best Writing
Tragedy and otherwise in multiple personalities?

Spider and Web
Interactive Fiction
Play "Spider and Web"
Copyright © 1997-8 by Andrew Plotkin.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
1998 XYZZY Awards: Best Game, Best Use of Medium, Best Puzzles, Best Individual Non-Player Character, for the interrogator, and Best Individual Puzzle, for getting out of the chair
A vacation in our lovely country! See the ethnic charms of the countryside, the historic grandeur of the capital city. Taste our traditional cuisine; smell the flowers of the Old Tree. And all without leaving your own armchair! But all is not as it seems...