Best Story
This award has been given since 1996. It recognizes the game with the deepest or most original story.
- 2011: The Play by Deirdra Kiai.
- Bonehead by Sean M. Shore
- Cryptozookeeper by Robb Sherwin
- The Life (and Deaths) of Doctor M by Michael D. Hilborn
- Zombie Exodus by Jim Dattilo
- 2010: The Warbler's Nest by Jason McIntosh
- Gris et Jaune by Jason Devlin
- Hoist Sail for the Heliopause and Home by Andrew Plotkin
- One Eye Open by Colin Sandel and Carolyn VanEseltine
- 2009: Blue Lacuna by Aaron A. Reed
- The King of Shreds and Patches by Jimmy Maher
- Make it Good by Jon Ingold
- The Shadow in the Cathedral by Ian Finley and Jon Ingold
- 2008: Nightfall by Eric Eve
- Afflicted by Doug Evan
- Everybody Dies by Jim Munroe
- Violet by Jeremy Freese
- Gun Mute by C. E. J. Pacian
- 2007: A Fine Day for Reaping by James Webb
- An Act of Murder by Christopher Huang
- Deadline Enchanter by Alan DeNiro
- Fate by Victor Gijsbers
- 2006: The Traveling Swordsman by Mike Snyder
- Moon-Shaped by Jason Ermer
- Pantomime by Robb Sherwin
- The Baron by Victor Gijsbers
- The Elysium Enigma by Eric Eve
- 2005: Beyond by Mondi Confinanti (Roberto Grassi, Paolo Lucchesi, and Alessandro Peretti)
- All Hope Abandon by Eric Eve
- Chancellor by Kevin Venzke
- Distress by Mike Snyder
- Vespers by Jason Devlin
- 2004: Blue Chairs by Chris Klimas
- The Act of Misdirection by Callico Harrison
- The Cabal by Stephen Bond
- Dreamhold by Andrew Plotkin
- Future Boy! by Kent Tessman
- Necrotic Drift by Robb Sherwin
- 2003: Slouching Towards Bedlam by Daniel Ravipinto and Star Foster
- City of Secrets by Emily Short
- Narcolepsy by Adam Cadre
- Redemption by Kathleen M. Fischer
- To Hell in a Hamper by J. J. Guest
- 2002: Savoir Faire by Emily Short
- Augustine by Terrence V. Koch
- The Moonlit Tower by Yoon Ha Lee
- Till Death Makes a Monk-Fish Out of Me! by Jon Ingold and Mike Sousa
- When Help Collides by J. D. Berry
- 2001: All Roads by Jon Ingold
- Fallacy of Dawn by Robb Sherwin
- First Things First by J. Robinson Wheeler
- Pytho's Mask by Emily Short
- Vicious Cycles by Simon Mark
- Voices by Aris Katsaris
- 2000: My Angel by Jon Ingold
- Being Andrew Plotkin by J. Robinson Wheeler
- LASH by Paul O'Brian
- Masquerade by Kathleen M. Fischer
- Rameses by Stephen Bond
- Shade by Andrew Plotkin
- shrapnel by Adam Cadre
- 1999: Worlds Apart by Suzanne Britton
- Aisle by Sam Barlow
- Common Ground by Stephen Granade
- Lunatix by Mike Snyder
- The Mulldoon Legacy by Jon Ingold
- Varicella by Adam Cadre
- 1998: Photopia by Adam Cadre
- Anchorhead by Michael Gentry
- Little Blue Men by Michael Gentry
- Losing Your Grip by Stephen Granade
- Spider and Web by Andrew Plotkin
- 1997: Babel by Ian Finley
- Glowgrass by Nate Cull
- I-0 by Adam Cadre
- Madame L'Estrange and the Troubled Spirit by Ian Ball and Marcus Young
- Mercy by Chris Klimas
- 1996: Tapestry by Daniel Ravipinto
- Delusions by C. E. Forman
- Lost New York by Neil deMause
- So Far by Andrew Plotkin
- Time: All Things Come to an End by Andy Phillips
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Famous quotes containing the word story:
“The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with.”
—Robert Motherwell (19151991)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then the queen died of grief is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)