Best Use of Medium
The Best Use of Medium award, the other XYZZY Award added in 1997, is not a clearly defined award, with no specific criteria given to voters. The interpretation of what particular quality this award recognizes remains open; many voters choose to interpret this award as a recognition of particularly daring interpretations of the limits and abilities of interactive fiction, especially as regards the relationship between the player, narrator, and player character.
- 2009: Blue Lacuna by Aaron A. Reed
- Alabaster by Emily Short et al.
- Rover's Day Out by Jack Welch and Ben Collins-Sussman
- The Shadow in the Cathedral by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
- 2008: The Moon Watch by Paolo Maroncelli and Alessandro Peretti
- Afflicted by Doug Evan
- Everybody Dies by Jim Munroe
- Violet by Jeremy Freese
- Gun Mute by C. E. J. Pacian
- 2007: Deadline Enchanter by Alan DeNiro
- An Act of Murder by Christopher Huang
- Fate by Victor Gijsbers
- Lost Pig by Admiral Jota
- Slap That Fish by Peter Nepstad
- 2006: The Baron by Victor Gijsbers
- Another Goddam Escape the Locked Room Game by Riff Conner
- Attack of the Yeti Robot Zombies by Øyvind Thorsby
- Bronze by Emily Short
- Legion by Jason Devlin
- 2005: Mystery House Possessed by Emily Short
- A New Life by Alexendre Owen Muñiz
- Book and Volume by Nick Montfort
- Distress by Mike Snyder
- Whom the Telling Changed by Aaron A. Reed
- 2004: The Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
- All Things Devours by "half sick of shadows"
- Bellclap by Tommy Herbert
- Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- Return to Ditch Day by Michael J. Roberts
- 2003: ASCII and the Argonauts by J. Robinson Wheeler
- City of Secrets by Emily Short
- Max Blaster and Doris de Lightning Against the Parrot Creatures of Venus by Dan Shiovitz and Emily Short
- Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
- To Hell in a Hamper by J. J. Guest
- 2002: Earth and Sky 2: Another Earth, Another Sky by Paul O'Brian
- Lock & Key by Adam Cadre
- Photograph by Steve Evans (interactive fiction)|Steve Evans
- Savoir Faire by Emily Short
- When Help Collides by J. D. Berry
- 2001: The Gostak by Carl Muckenhoupt
- Best of Three by Emily Short
- Heroes by Sean Barrett
- Pick Up the Phone Booth and Aisle by Ola Sverre Bauge, Steve Bernard, Jon Blask, John Cater, Liza Daly, David Dyte, Stephen Granade, Iain Merrick, Rob Noyes, Dan Schmidt, Dan Shiovitz, Emily Short, and J. Robinson Wheeler
- Textfire Golf by Adam Cadre
- 2000: shrapnel by Adam Cadre
- Ad Verbum by Nick Montfort
- Metamorphoses by Emily Short
- Rameses by Stephen Bond
- Shade by Andrew Plotkin
- 1999: Aisle by Sam Barlow
- Hunter, in Darkness by Andrew Plotkin
- Six Stories by Neil K. Guy
- Varicella by Adam Cadre
- Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- 1998: Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- Arrival, or Attack of the B-Movie Clichés by Stephen Granade
- Bad Machine by Dan Shiovitz
- Once and Future by G. Kevin Wilson
- Photopia by Adam Cadre
- 1997: The Tempest by Graham Nelson
- I-0 by Adam Cadre
- A New Day by Jonathan Fry
- The Space Under the Window by Andrew Plotkin
- Sunset Over Savannah by Ivan Cockrum
Read more about this topic: List Of XYZZY Awards By Category
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“The role of the writer is not simply to arrange Being according to his own lights; he must also serve as a medium to Being and remain open to its often unfathomable dictates. This is the only way the work can transcend its creator and radiate its meaning further than the author himself can see or perceive.”
—Václav Havel (b. 1936)