Kaelan Doyle-Myerscough (they/he) is a game designer based in Toronto, Canada, and a PhD candidate at the University of Chicago, researching experimental worldbuilding methods. They make games about strange collaboration in vivid worlds.
This essay was made possible through the support of the Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation.
Just a month before I entered it, I had no idea what the IFComp was.
The year was 2017.