Adam Cadre

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Adam Cadre (born February 5, 1974 in Silver Spring, Maryland^[1]) is a U.S. writer. He gained prominence in the world of interactive fiction with works like I-0 (1997), Photopia (1998) and Varicella (1999), for which he has won several XYZZY Awards and been the subject of academic study http://nickm.com/if/Varicella.pdf http://nickm.com/twisty/. Photopia additionally won the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition^[2]. He founded and organised the Spring Thing, an alternative interactive fiction competition, in 2002 and 2003. He has also written a novel, Ready, Okay! (2000, ISBN 0-06-019558-4).

Adam Cadre hosts the Lyttle Lytton Contest every year from his website.

Awards

Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Game in 1997 for I-0^[3]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Individual Player Character in 1997 for Tracy Valencia in I-0^[3]
Winner of the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition with Photopia
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Writing in 1998 for Photopia^[4] and 2003 for Narcolepsy^[5]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Game in 1999 for Varicella^[6]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Non-Player Characters in 1999 for Varicella^[6]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Individual Non-Player Character in 1999 for Miss Sierra in Varicella^[6]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Individual Player Character in 1999 for Primo Varicella in Varicella^[6]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Use of Medium in 2000 for shrapnel^[7]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Individual Non-Player Character in 2002 for Boldo in Lock & Key^[8]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Individual Puzzle in 2002 for the traps in Lock & Key^[8]
Winner of the XYZZY Award for Best Non-Player Characters in 2003 for Lock & Key^[5]

Adam's website, with interactive fiction, several short stories (including two that extend the Ready, Okay! world), ongoing webcomic, short essays, and more.