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2026-09-02 · essay
Lighting as a Verb — The Grammar of Puzzles Where Light Rewrites Existence
Closure, Contrast, Lightmatter, and Creaks all turn on the same single verb — lighting something — yet make it mean four entirely different things: existence, movement, life and death, or an enemy's true form. I compare them as one verb-minimalism case study.

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2017-05-26 · Tequila Works
RiME
A boy wakes on an unfamiliar island after a storm and runs, climbs, swims and shouts at the stonework, guided by a red fox toward the peak of a distant tower — a five-chapter puzzle adventure with no combat, no HUD and no dialogue, released by Tequila Works in 2017.
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2020-01-15 · Tunnel Vision Games
Lightmatter
A first-person puzzler where touching a shadow kills you instantly. Light your way out of a collapsed research facility using only portable lamps and light-relaying pylons, turning a floor of darkness into a safe path. Tunnel Vision Games' open love letter to Portal, built on the single paired verb of light and shadow.
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