Kenneth Eugene St. Andre is an American fantasy game designer and author, best known for creating the fantasy role-playing game, Tunnels & Trolls (T&T), and the computer role-playing game, Wasteland.
St. Andre (right) at his residence in Phoenix, Arizona, with friend Bernard Assaf (left), 2020
St. Andre at Gen Con Indy 2014
Wasteland is a role-playing video game developed by Interplay Productions and published by Electronic Arts in 1988. The first installment of the Wasteland series, it is set in a futuristic, post-apocalyptic America destroyed by a nuclear holocaust generations before. Developers originally made the game for the Apple II and it was ported to the Commodore 64 and MS-DOS. It was re-released for Microsoft Windows, OS X, and Linux in 2013 via Steam and GOG.com, and in 2014 via Desura. A remastered version titled Wasteland Remastered was released on February 25, 2020, in honor of the original game's 30th anniversary.
A screenshot of an encounter with mutated "Drools" in the DOS version
Brian Fargo in 2011, the game's director
Michael Stackpole at the 2017 Phoenix Comicon
Ken St Andre in 2014; he served as a writer and designer.