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1997 XYZZY Awards

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A Bear's Night Out
An Interactive Children's Story
Play release 2 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 4 - German translation
Play release 4 - Spanish translation
Play release 5
Copyright © 1997-1999 by David Dyte.
Copyright © 1998 by Gunther Schmidl (German translation).
Copyright © 2002 by Zak (Spanish translation).
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1997: 5th place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Setting
Tomorrow is the big Teddy Bear party, and you must definitely not let your owner forget about it...

Babel
Copyright © 1997 by Ian Finley.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1997: 2nd place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Story

Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang
Copyright © 1997 by Neil deMause.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1997: 13th place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Non-Player Characters

I-0
the "jailbait on the interstate" game
Play release 4 (v1.21)
Play release 4 (v1.21) - Spanish translation
Copyright © 1997 by Adam Cadre.
Copyright © 2000 by Antonio Márquez (Spanish translation), Miguel Villaverde Rodal (Spanish translation), Zak McKraken (Spanish translation).
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Game and Best Individual Player Character, for Tracy Valencia
Stranded on Interstate Zero after your car broke down, you are miles away from the last sign of civilisation. It's twenty minutes to noon and the temperature is well over 120. It's beginning to look like you'll not make it to your family's Thanksgiving dinner...

She's Got a Thing for a Spring
An Interactive Dip in a Hot Spring
Play release 1 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 4
Copyright © 1997 by Brent vanFossen.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1997: 4th place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Individual Non-Player Character, for "Bob"
It's been a hectic year, and it's time to get away. He told you that, and you agreed. Now you're here, in a grove of aspen, and long for a good, long bath in the nearby hot spring.

Sunset Over Savannah
Copyright © 1997 by Ivan Cockrum.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1997: 6th place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Writing

The Edifice
An Interactive Allegory
Play release 1 (original IFComp 1997 entry)
Play release 2
Copyright © 1997-8 by Lucian Paul Smith.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1997: 1st place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Puzzles and Best Individual Puzzle, for the language puzzle
Something new in your everyday hunter-gatherer routine: where did this strange edifice come from? Dare you enter and explore the secrets of this... thing, or do you try to face your enemies? Like you have a choice.

The Tempest
An interactive performance
Play "The Tempest"
Copyright © 1997 by Graham Nelson.
IFDB Baf's Guide (archived)
Competition 1997: 25th place
1997 XYZZY Awards: Best Use of Medium
You play Ariel in William Shakespeare's comedy The Tempest. The text and descriptions are lifted from the original works, i. e. in old English.