Home > XYZZY Award for Best Individual NPC

Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.

• 1996: The burin, in Frobozz Magic Support by Nate Cull
  • Evan, in Kissing the Buddha's Feet by Leon Lin
  • The devil, in Small World by Andrew Pontious
  • Leo the Lemming, in Phlegm by Jason Dyer
  • Christopher Robin, in Ralph by Miron Schmidt
• 1997: Bob, in She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent vanFossen
  • The Stranger, in The Edifice by Lucian P. Smith
  • The Taco Junta girl, in I-0 by Adam Cadre
  • The cow, in The Lost Spellmaker by Neil Brown
  • The devil, in Sins Against Mimesis by Adam Thornton
• 1998: The interrogator, in Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
  • Michael, in Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
  • The troll, in Enlihtenment by Taro Ogawa
  • The wolf, in Mother Loose by Irene Callaci
  • Alley, in Photopia by Adam Cadre
• 1999For the album by Prince, see 1999 (album 1999 is a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the UN. Events Kosovo War Former child star Gary Coleman files for bankruptcy Y2K prep: Miss Sierra, in VaricellaVaricella is a Latin name for chickenpox. See also : Infectious diseases Virus Varicella is also a work of interactive fiction by Adam Cadre (1999). The player character is Primo Varicella, palace minister in Piedmont, who has to get rid of several rivals by Adam Cadre
  • Anatoly Domokov, in Exhibition by Ian Finley
  • The wumpus, in Hunter, in Darkness by Andrew Plotkin
  • Princess Charlotte, in Varicella by Adam Cadre
  • Lyric/Echo, in Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
• 2000: Galatea, in Galatea by Emily Short
  • The King, in Augmented Fourth by Brian Uri
  • Melvin, in Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
  • The alien, in Fail-Safe by Jon Ingold
  • Angel, in My Angel by Jon Ingold
• 2001: Yahoweh Porn, in Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
  • Grant Stern, in Best of Three by Emily Short
  • The droke, in The Gostak by Carl Muckenhoupt
  • Space Moose, in Stiffy Makane: The Undiscovered Country by Adam Thornton
  • Cheryl, in The Weapon by Sean Barrett
• 2002: Boldo, in Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
  • Emily, in Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
  • Musculo, in Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
  • Charles, in The Temple by Johan Berntsson
  • Nebusan Sedonkawa, in When Help Collides by J. D. Berry
• 2003: Triage, in Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
  • The bookseller, in City of Secrets by Emily Short
  • Corvallis Oregon, in Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
  • Iona, in Scavenger by Quintin Stone
  • Galen, in Shadows on the Mirror by Chrysoula Tzavelas