Varicella (video game) and Playing Cadre's Varicella", and by Dr. Wendy Morgan in her 2003 paper "Touching (on) Character: New Engagements in New Media Narratives". Cadre himself claimed in a January 2002 interview that it was the best game he had written up to that point: Varicella (video game) Varicella is a 1999 work of interactive fiction by Adam Cadre, distributed in z-code format as freeware. It is set in an alternate history which features roughly modern technology mixed with Renaissance-style principalities and court politics. The characters of Varicella use contemporary language from their home in a Renaissance castle, continuing the contrast between
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