History Creator / AdamCadre

* RewatchBonus: [[spoiler:After you play through ''9:05'' the default way and realize you're not playing Brian Hadley but instead his killer, you can use the information revealed by the news anchor as a clue to find Hadley's corpse under the bed on your next playthrough, then take a freeway onramp to escape by car.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: The default ending of ''9:05''. It turns out you're not controlling Brian Hadley, employee of Loungent Technologies. You're actually controlling ''his killer'', who fell asleep in his bedroom after killing him and stealing some of his valuables, then woke up the next morning and tried to assume his career.]]

* TomatoInTheMirror: [[spoiler: The ending of ''9:05'']]

* WhamLine: In ''9:05'', [[spoiler:"Who the hell are you?"]]

** He has in fact used pen names for most competition games since ''I-0'', including ''1981'', a short game featuring a [[Main/VillainProtagonist stalker protagonist]] submitted to [=SmoochieComp=] (a competition for ''romantic games''), which led to one review starting "Adam Cadre, [[Main/SignatureStyle is that you]]? If it's not, I'll eat my hat."

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Cadre Adam Cadre]] is a writer who's worked in several spectra of fiction throughout his life, from books to webcomics to {{MST}}-ings, but he is perhaps best known and beloved for his work with {{Interactive Fiction}}. He's won 11 XYZZY Awards for his various text adventures and stole the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition with his seminal work ''VideoGame/{{Photopia}}'', in addition to starting his own annual IF competition called Spring Thing.

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[[caption-width:200:Can you tell he's OneOfUs?]]

* TrialAndErrorGameplay: ''Varicella'' and ''Lock and Key''. Since both require engineering a specific set of interlocking circumstances to achieve the desired goal (eliminating all your rivals in the former, assembling an inescapable deathtrap in the latter), winning on the first playthrough (or the second, or the third, etc.) is next to impossible: you need to figure out how the different moving parts (literal or figurative) interact before you can hope to win.

His conventional fiction output consists of several short stories and one novel, the dark high school comedy ''Literature/ReadyOkay''. His WebComics (hosted on his website) are ''Academy X'', a deconstruction of the ScienceHero set at an academy for [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Omnidisciplinary Scientists]], and ''Evil Creatures'', a continuation of the plot from ''Academy X''. Additionally, he has also been part of two amateur rock bands, paints, blogs, and runs the annual LyttleLyttonContest (which challenges readers to submit horrible made-up novel opening lines). He's something of a modern RenaissanceMan.

His conventional fiction output consists of several short stories and one novel, the dark high school comedy ''Literature/ReadyOkay'' His WebComics (hosted on his website) are ''Academy X'', a deconstruction of the ScienceHero set at an academy for [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Omnidisciplinary Scientists]], and ''Evil Creatures'', a continuation of the plot from ''Academy X''. Additionally, he has also been part of two amateur rock bands, paints, blogs, and runs the annual LyttleLyttonContest (which challenges readers to submit horrible made-up novel opening lines). He's something of a modern RenaissanceMan.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Cadre Adam Cadre]] is a writer who's worked in several spectrums of fiction throughout his life, from books to webcomics to {{MST}}-ings, but he is perhaps best known and beloved for his work with {{Interactive Fiction}}. He's won 11 XYZZY Awards for his various text adventures and stole the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition with his seminal work ''VideoGame/{{Photopia}}'', in addition to starting his own annual IF competition called Spring Thing.

His conventional fiction output consists of several short stories and one novel, the dark high school comedy ''[[ReadyOkay Ready, Okay!]]''. His WebComics (hosted on his website) are ''Academy X'', a deconstruction of the ScienceHero set at an academy for [[OmnidisciplinaryScientist Omnidisciplinary Scientists]], and ''Evil Creatures'', a continuation of the plot from ''Academy X''. Additionally, he has also been part of two amateur rock bands, paints, blogs, and runs the annual LyttleLyttonContest (which challenges readers to submit horrible made-up novel opening lines). He's something of a modern RenaissanceMan.

[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Cadre Adam Cadre]] is a writer who's worked in several spectrums of fiction throughout his life, from books to webcomics to {{MST}}-ings, but he is perhaps best known and beloved for his work with {{Interactive Fiction}}. He's won 11 XYZZY Awards for his various text adventures and stole the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition with his seminal work ''{{Photopia}}'', in addition to starting his own annual IF competition called Spring Thing.

* NoCommunitiesWereHarmed: The state of Dorado (the setting for ''I-0'' and ''Narcolepsy'') is meant to be a stand-in for southern California, while Turtalia (the setting for ''{{Photopia}}'') is based on southwestern Canada.
* NoSidepathsNoExplorationNoFreedom: The biggest complaint about ''{{Photopia}}''.

* StoryToGameplayRatio: His games fall all over the spectrum, from almost all story (''{{Photopia}}'') to almost all gameplay (''Lock and Key''). They do tend to lie toward the "story" end of the spectrum, though.

* ''{{Photopia}}'' (1998)
* ''{{Varicella}}'' (1999)