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if annual zzt excellence awards 2001  


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 (MadTom1
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
WiL21
Jojoisjo4
aetsch3
Chase Bramlage2
Zanno2
craNKGod2
CyQ2
Question Mark1
Knightt1
coolzx1
dave21
Nadir1
Best graphics artist
Kracken11
Chase Bramlage6
coolzx6
Nadir6
Hercules4
Leamas3
aetsch2
Meantee2
Viovis1
BenW1
Best musician
WiL16
Viovis11
aetsch6
MadTom4
voighdt3
Jojoisjo2
ZZTer of the Year
WiL11
craNKGod8
Knightt5
Zanno5
Hercules4
Chase Bramlage3
Fishfood2
Lynx1
Tseng1
MadTom1
Wayward1