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Fun Facts About Andrew Shvarts


  • Andrew’s passion has always been storytelling, in all its forms: fiction, cinema, narrative video games, and long, rambling, frequently-exaggerated anecdotes. He spent his childhood devouring books, and his adolescence watching straight-to-DVD horror movies and playing jRPGS.

  • Andrew graduated from Vassar College in 2007. While there, he was falsely accused of releasing a bear on campus, and once stole a fence and buried it in a swamp.

  • Since 2008, Andrew has worked as a videogame writer, producer, and designer. His focus has been on narrative mobile games, especially episodic ones. Some of these titles include Choices: Stories You Play, Surviving High School, Cause of Death, and High School Story.

  • Andrew is both color-blind and tone-deaf, which probably means he has some latent superpowers he just hasn’t discovered.

  • He is represented by the amazing Sara Crowe of Pippin Properties.

  • Andrew lives in San Jose, California, with his wife, son, and two cats.

  • The best videogame of all time is Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater. This is not a fun fact about Andrew, but an objective truth of the world.