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#introductions

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welcome to the Customer Enragement Company, i'll be your guide!

it's me, just on cohost!

anyways. i'm kotaKat, a wandering bobcat from somewhere in upstate New York. i'm 29, pansexual, male-identifying, and i'm an indigenous Canadian.

i enjoy long naps by the beach, snuggling up, and tearing the shit apart of retro technology and making stuff come back to life.



I'm a software engineer by day but more importantly I've spent most of my life shouting at electronics of all shapes and sizes. I'm hoping to share my misadventures and hobbies more long form here blessed by the presence of eggbug eggbug

I also do amateur photography! I shoot on a Fujifilm X-T4 with a 18mm lens which makes for some fun photography constraints. photo of the Seattle Japanese gardens The Seattle Japanese Gardens



(i was activated a week ago, but i finally get to make a proper intro post now that i'm at a desktop! have you tried writing long posts with markdown on a phone? you shouldn't)

hello! i'm alex / rabbit / wisprabbit. i make puzzles and interactive fiction, i'm very quiet and i keep myself to myself, and i was once told by a novelty Parappa the Rapper account that my posting is awful.

here is what i am responsible for:

interactive fiction

i make interactive fiction, with an interest in parser-based text adventures. when i say i make interactive fiction, i mean that i have made one: Vampire Ltd, a short text adventure in which you are a vampire committing corporate espionage on another vampire. i have another one in the works which i'm hoping to submit to IFComp 2022.

i've also reviewed a few works of interactive fiction. most of them exist on a WordPress site, with a few more in a private subforum of the IntFiction forum which I never bothered to make public. i am considering posting future reviews here, and really making it impossible to find anything i've written.

games

Vampire Ltd is playable somewhere on my itch.io page, along with an earlier vampire game which i reused the best jokes from and a prototype DROD-like puzzler which i wanna remake and build on someday.

speaking of DROD, i also had a hand in playtesting and marketing Erik Hermansen's newer puzzle game The Godkiller - Chapter 1. if you like top-down puzzlers, it would be cool of you to buy it and play it and buy a hundred more copies for your friends.

puzzles

i make japanese-style logic puzzles and cryptic crosswords. they rarely do significant numbers, but that's okay, i enjoy making them. i post a new one to my twitter account every wednesday, or probably thursday if you live far enough ahead of time. i usually post logic puzzles, though i'm trying to do a cryptic crossword on the last wednesday of every month.

my older puzzles can be found in this twitter thread, and my newer puzzles can be found with this twitter hashtag. if you want just the logic puzzles, they get automatically collected in the puzz.link database (and you can filter for puzzle types and difficulty there as well). all the crosswords are posted on crosshare.

okay that's it

i don't know what i'm going to use cohost for yet but i have some ideas. maybe puzzle compilations, maybe interactive fiction reviews or other if projects. probably even worse posts than the character limit on twitter allows. but first, i gotta learn some css.