I really enjoyed The Impossible Stairs. First of all, the game is a nice homage to The Impossible Bottle. Its setting, initial goals, and focus on family relationships are all similar to aspects of The Impossible Bottle. Its major puzzle mechanic bends time in satisfying ways, as The Impossible Bottle’s mechanic does with space. ThereContinue reading “The Impossible Stairs”
Category Archives: Brian Rushton
The Magpie Takes the Train
The Magpie Takes the Train is a one-room parser game with an interesting history. As an IFComp 2018 prize Brian Rushton offered to make a short work based on the prize-selector’s game. J. J. Guest, author of the first-place winner Alias ‘The Magpie,’ chose this prize, and The Magpie Takes the Train is the resultingContinue reading “The Magpie Takes the Train”
An Interview with Brian Rushton
Brian Rushton, also known as Mathbrush, is an interactive fiction author, frequent tester, prolific critic, and all-around supporter of IF.
An Exercise for the Reader 