XYZZY Award for Best NPCs

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The XYZZY Award for Best NPCs is one of the annual awards given by XYZZYnews to works of interactive fiction. This award has been given since 1996. The award for Best NPCs recognizes a particularly appropriate, amusing, and well-written cast of non-player characters.

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

• 1996: Kissing the Buddha's Feet by Leon Lin
  • Lost New York by Neil deMause
  • Small World by Andrew Pontious
  • The Underoos that Ate New York by G. Kevin Wilson
  • The Wedding by Neil Brown
• 1997: The Frenetic Five vs. Sturm und Drang by Neil deMause
  • Everybody Loves a Parade by Cody Sandifer
  • I-0 by Adam Cadre
  • She's Got a Thing for a Spring by Brent vanFossen
  • Zero Sum Game by Cody Sandifer
• 1998: Once and Future by G. Kevin Wilson
  • Guilty Bastards by Kent Tessman
  • Mother Loose by Irene Callaci
  • Muse by Chris Huang
  • Photopia by Adam Cadre
• 1999: Varicella by Adam Cadre
  • A Day For Soft Food by Tod Levi
  • The Frenetic Five vs. Mr. Redundancy Man by Neil deMause
  • The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
  • Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
• 2000: Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
  • Galatea by Emily Short
  • Heroine's Mantle by Andy Phillips
  • Kaged by Ian Finley
  • Punk Points by Jim Munroe
  • Rameses by Stephen Bond
• 2001: Pytho's Mask, by Emily Short
  • Best of Three by Emily Short
  • Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
  • Textfire Golf by Adam Cadre
  • You Are Here by Roy Fisher
• 2002: Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
  • Foverer Always by Iain Merrick
  • The Frenetic Five vs. the Seven Deadly Dwarves by Neil deMause
  • The PK Girl by Robert Goodwin
  • Tookie's Song by Jessica Knoch
• 2003: City of Secrets by Emily Short
  • Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
  • Risorgimento Represso by Michale Coyne
  • Shadows on the Mirror by Chrysoula Tzavelas
  • Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
• 2004: Sting of the Wasp by Jason Devlin
  • Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
  • Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
  • Luminous Horizon by Paul O'Brian
  • Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
• 2005: Vespers by Jason Devlin
  • All Hope Abandon by Eric Eve
  • Bolivia by Night by Aidan Doyle
  • Flat Feet by Joel Ray Holveck
  • Gilded by John Evans