Sammyfantastic begun his gaming career on a Macintosh Plus with a 40MB hard drive, enjoying such classics as Dark Castle and Lode Runner. Outside of LitRPG he writes under his (real) name, Sam Bowring, and has authored many books across different genres, as well as for TV, film, stage and on games such as Heroes Over Europe (Transmission Games) and the VR satire The American Dream (Samurai Punk). He's been a stand-up comedian for over 25 years, and lives in Sydney, Australia.