Sam Kabo Ashwell

Sam Kabo Ashwell makes and writes about interactive fiction, procedural generation art, narrative TTRPGs, theatre LARP and other forms of oddly-enjambed media; he is the current organizer of interactive fiction’s XYZZY Awards, and you can find his games criticism at https://heterogenoustasks.wordpress.com/about/. He has been found on various continents, but is presently avoiding them entirely; he lives in Honolulu with his partner and three cats.

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