Interactive Fantasies

The ZZT Excellence Awards 2001. A council consisting of a few IF members and other ZZTers voted on their favorite games and ZZTers of the year 2001!

Council:

Hercules (council chair)
Hydra
aetsch
Robert Pragt
Kracken
Nadir
Leamas

Rules:

All council members vote on their top 3 (a number 1, a number 2 and a number 3) of favorite games/ZZTers per category.
Council members cannot vote on their own games.
All nominations must be games from 2001 (with the exception of the ZZTer Awards, of course ^_^).
ouncil members can only vote on demos in the following categories: best graphics, best sound effects/music, best storyline, best programming, most innovative and best gameplay.
A number 1 vote gives a nominee 3 points, a number 2 vote 2 points and a number 3 vote 1 point. The nominee with the highest score in one category wins the category award.
In case of a tie, tie-breaker votes will be cast. You can see this if the score indicates a +1.

Nominees:

Here's a list of the games which have been nominated for all different categories. They are listed in alphabetical order. The winners are listed in italics and a special font color.

Best graphics

Infestation 3 (coolzx) 11

Boof Remix (Chase Bramlage) 8

Purposedly Produced Dynamic Visualties 2 (Viovis) 6

Deceiving Guidance (Hercules, Hydra) 4

Red Isle (Oof) 4

largoABRAXIS (WiL) 3

Operation: Obrian-2 (Chase Bramlage) 3

The Thief 3 (Leamas) 2

Death Gate (Hercules, Hydra, aetsch, WiL, Nadir) 1

Best adventure/RPG

Deceiving Guidance (Hercules, Hydra) 9

Misadventures of Mega Job (Tseng) 8

The Thief 3 (Leamas) 6

Nothing Constructive (Zanno) 6

Boof Remix (Chase Bramlage) 3

Red Isle (Oof) 3

Stupid RPG: File 1 Complete (Knightt) 2

Within v1.9 (Wayward) 2

Warriors of Seven Part 1 (Knightt) 1

Stupid RPG: Third Flavor (Knightt) 1

Purposedly Produced Dynamic Visualties 2 (Viovis) 1

Best comedy

Misadventures of Mega Job (Tseng) 15

Stupid RPG: Third Flavor (Knightt) 7

American Society (Apple McTom) 6

ChickenWire v1.8 (Nadir) 3

Within v1.9 (Wayward) 3

Purposedly Produced Dynamic Visualties 2 (Viovis) 2

Boof Remix (Chase Bramlage) 1

Best demo

New Demo (bucket) 11

Dragon Warrior Demo (Lynx) 7

Lemming Hunter Demo (Dsone) 5

NO! 2 Demo (_God_) 3

Box Climber Demo (Nanobot) 3

American Society Demo (Apple McTom) 2

Legacy of Wieth Demo (bucket) 2

Dead Moon Demo (starbux) 1

Sporkman Demo (ZZTPyro) 1

Anthropoid Demo (Nuero) 1

Best puzzle game

Little Square Things (craNKGod) 18

Pipeline 60/99 (WiL) 15

4 (Jojoisjo) 3

Apud le Medius Res (Wayward) 3

Pipeline (Question Mark) 2

Box Climber (Nanobot) 1

Best action game

Infestation 3 (coolzx) 14

Mazi Oog (WiL) 11

Deceiving Guidance (Hercules, Hydra) 5

Resident Evil (bucket) 5

Pac Man (WiL, Lynx) 3

Operation: Obrian-2 (Chase Bramlage) 1

Best 24 hours of ZZT game

Death-wish (zzblue) 11

Curse of the Vamp's Curse (zzblue) 8

Color Revival (Theta14) 5

The Revived are Still Alive (Knightt) 3

The day Odin Got up on the Wrong Side of the Bed (Flimsy Parkins) 3

Foinshwaig ur Game (Oof) 2

Rhubarb Pie Strikes Bach (WiL) 2

Maynard & Fritz (Hercules) 2

At Least we Have Hope (Flimsy Parkins) 2

The Hopeless Man (WiL) 1

Self-Rot (Hercules, Robert Pragt) 1

Robots of Death! (Flimsy Parkins) 1

Most innovative

4 (Jojoisjo) 12

Little Square Things (craNKGod) 5

Pipeline 60/99 (WiL) 5

Pynball (dave2) 3

Purposedly Produced Dynamic Visualties 2 (Viovis) 3

Within v1.9 (Wayward) 3

Scorched Earth ZZT (aetsch) 3

Pac Man (WiL, Lynx) 2

Mazi Oog (WiL) 2

Nothing Constructive (Zanno) 1

Death Gate (Hercules, Hydra, aetsch, WiL, Nadir) 1

Best sound effects/music

Purposedly Produced Dynamic Visualties 2 (Viovis) 11

largoABRAXIS (WiL) 9

Deceiving Guidance (Hercules, Hydra, aetsch, WiL, Jojoisjo) 5

Apud le Medius Res (Wayward, Viovis) 3

Parallel (MadTom, Boonob) 3

Death Gate (Hercules, Hydra, aetsch, WiL, Nadir) 2

#play v5 - Am I #play Or Not (WiL) 2

Operation: Obrian-2 (Chase Bramlage, aetsch) 1

Today is Monday (voighdt) 1

Dragon Warrior Demo (Lynx) 1

Best gameplay

Deceiving Guidance (Hercules, Hydra) 5+1

Donny's Little Feast (WiL) 5

The Thief 3 (Leamas) 4

Nothing Constructive (Zanno) 4

Misadventures of Mega Job (Tseng) 4

4 (Jojoisjo) 3

Resident Evil (bucket) 3

Pac Man (WiL, Lynx) 3

Operation: Obrian-2 (Chase Bramlage) 2

Greed 2 (MadTom) 2

Little Square Things (craNKGod) 1

Stupid RPG: File 1 Complete (Knightt) 1

Anthropoid (Nuero) 1

Scorched Earth ZZT (aetsch) 1

Best programming

Pipeline 60/99 (WiL) 6+1

Pac Man (WiL, Lynx) 6

Pynball (dave2) 5

Deceiving Guidance (Hercules, Hydra) 3

largoABRAXIS (WiL) 3

Little Square Things (craNKGod) 3

Death Gate (Hercules, Hydra, aetsch, WiL, Nadir) 3

Scorched Earth ZZT (aetsch) 2

4 (Jojoisjo) 1

Nothing Constructive (Zanno) 1

Best plot/storyline

Red Isle (Oof) 10

Within v1.9 (Wayward) 8

Nothing Constructive (Zanno) 7

Deceiving Guidance (Hercules, Hydra) 5

Apud le Medius Res (Wayward) 4

Warriors of Seven Part 1 (Knightt) 2

Operation: Obrian-2 (Chase Bramlage) 1

The Thief 3 (Leamas) 1

Greed 2 (MadTom 1

Game of the Year

Little Square Things (craNKGod) 9+1

Deceiving Guidance (Hercules, Hydra) 9

Misadventures of Mega Job (Tseng) 7

4 (Jojoisjo) 4

The Thief 3 (Leamas) 4

Purposedly Produced Dynamic Visualties 2 (Viovis) 3

Stupid RPG: File 1 Complete (Knightt) 2

Within v1.9 (Wayward) 2

Nothing Constructive (Zanno) 2

Best programmer

WiL 21

Jojoisjo 4

aetsch 3

Chase Bramlage 2

Zanno 2

craNKGod 2

CyQ 2

Question Mark 1

Knightt 1

coolzx 1

dave2 1

Nadir 1

Best graphics artist

Kracken 11

Chase Bramlage 6

coolzx 6

Nadir 6

Hercules 4

Leamas 3

aetsch 2

Meantee 2

Viovis 1

BenW 1

Best musician

WiL 16

Viovis 11

aetsch 6

MadTom 4

voighdt 3

Jojoisjo 2

ZZTer of the Year

WiL 11

craNKGod 8

Knightt 5

Zanno 5

Hercules 4

Chase Bramlage 3

Fishfood 2

Lynx 1

Tseng 1

MadTom 1

Wayward 1