XYZZY Award for Best Individual PC
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The XYZZY Award for Best Individal PC is one of the annual awards given by XYZZYnews to works of interactive fiction. This award has been given since 1997. The award for Best Individual PC recognizes a particularly well-defined and well-written player character.
The very existence of this award violates the principle of AFGNCAAP, which stresses the importance of leaving certain characteristics of the protagonist intentionally vague to allow the player to more easily envision themselves as the central character. However, many games, such as those listed here, have demonstrated that successful interactive fiction stories can also be told with a more well-defined player character.
Below, the winners of the award for each year are listed, followed by the other finalists for that year.
- 1997: Tracy Valencia, in I-0 by Adam Cadre
- * David, in Babel by Ian Finley
- * The bear, in A Bear's Night Out by David Dyte
- * Improv, in The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang by Neil deMause
- * Mattie, in The Lost Spellmaker by Neil Brown
- 1998: The employee, in Little Blue Men by Michael Gentry
- * Mover #005, in Bad Machine by Dan Shiovitz
- * Rev. Stephen Dawson, in Muse by Chris Huang
- * The agent, in Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- * The troll, in by Dylan O'Donnell
- 1999: Primo Varicella, in Varicella by Adam Cadre
- * The player character, in Aisle by Sam Barlow
- * The cat, in A Day for Soft Food by Tod Levi
- * The wife, in Exhibition by Ian Finley
- * Sarah, in Winchester's Nightmare by Nick Montfort
- 2000: Rameses Alexander Moran, in Rameses by Stephen Bond
- * [unspecified], in Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
- * The MULE, in LASH by Paul O'Brian
- * The alchemist, in Nevermore by Nate Cull
- * The player character, in Shade by Andrew Plotkin
- 2001: The Kissing Bandit, in The Tale of the Kissing Bandit by J. Robinson Wheeler
- * Aubrey Foil, in The Beetmonger's Journal by Scott Starkey
- * Helen Tsakis, in Best of Three by Emily Short
- * Delarion Yar, in Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
- * Troy Sterling, in Fine Tuned by Dennis Jerz
- 2002: Pierre, in Savoir Faire by Emily Short
- * Dutch Dapper, in by Harry Hol
- * Goldilocks, in Goldilocks is a FOX! by J. J. Guest
- * The janitor, in Janitor by Peter Seebach and Kevin Lynn
- * Jack Downer, in Photograph by Steve Evans
- 2003: The player character, in Episode in the Life of an Artist by Peter Eastman
- * The chef, in Gourmet by Aaron Reed
- * Eugene Oregon, in Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
- * Enra, in Shadows on the Mirror by Chrysoula Tzavelas
- * Triage, in Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
- 2004: Julia, in Sting of the Wasp by Jason Devlin
- * Dante, in Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
- * Tomasz Pudlo, in Gamlet by Tomasz Pudlo
- * Austin, in Luminous Horizon by Paul O'Brian
- * Jarrett Duffy, in Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
- 2005: Wendy Little, in Tough Beans by Sara Dee
- * Inspector Maltelli, in Beyond by Mondi Confinanti (Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti)
- * Conan, in Conan Kill Everything by Ian Haberkorn
- * Jacques, in Flat Feet by Joel Ray Holveck
- * The abbot in Vespers by Jason Devlin
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