photopia

He submitted Photopia to the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition pseudonymously.

The author, Adam Cadre, later won first place in the 1998 Interactive Fiction Competition for his next entry, Photopia.

"Photopia has made more of a mark, I suppose, but Photopia is a short story; Varicella is a world.

Spider and Fly Adam Cadre (who also wrote the aforementioned 9:05 and Photopia) is considered one of the masters of modern IF.

Adam Cadre has stated that Photopia was heavily influenced by The Sweet Hereafter, a film that prominently features a babysitter and a bus crash.

She subsequently used the game, along with Photopia, as an example of an "approach to tragedy in interactive fiction" at the Association for Computing Machinery's Hypertext 2007 conference.

Photopia's entry in Baf's Guide to the Interactive Fiction Archive notes awards that the game has won, links to reviews, and provides links to the game itself.

Years later, he dropped the pretense that there was a real "Opal O'Donnell" who had submitted Photopia for him, stating: "it started to bother me that v1.0 of the Phaq had lies in it."