From a historical perspective (i.e. I don’t know this person at all in real life), Laura Knauth has one of the coolest author arcs.
She wrote 3 games:
-the first was really big and over-ambitious fantasy game with dozens of rooms
-inspired by comments about her first game being too big, she did the opposite and made a ‘one room game’ that was amazingly well-detailed and used color in clever ways
-finally, putting it all together, she made a game that was the best of both worlds, with a moderate amount of very well-put-together rooms and use of color and art, and won IFComp
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