Adam Cadre
Adam Cadre (born February 5, 1974, in Silver Spring, Maryland) is an American writer active in a number of forms—novels, screenplays, webcomics, essays—but best known for his work in interactive fiction. == Biography == Cadre's 1998 piece Photopia pioneered a new direction in interactive fiction, removing the puzzle and resource-management elements that had previously been dominant; it has been cited as "hugely influential to [interactive fiction] development" and "important to video games as a whole, to the advancement of our understanding of the interactive medium." His next interactive fiction work, 1999's Varicella, won several XYZZY Awards and became the subject of academic study.