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The Verb of Pushing — What Sokoban Invented by Removing "Pull"
Sokoban's minimal grammar of push-only, no-pull invented the deadlock as a form of difficulty. A design reading of the pushing verb through three heirs: Sokobond, Baba Is You, and Patrick's Parabox.
"Verbs Made of Smaller Verbs" — Andrew Plotkin's Zoom-Out Design Pattern, from ThinkyCon 2025
One piece today: "Towers of Pen: puzzle experiences that zoom out and out" by Andrew Plotkin, from ThinkyCon 2025 (free online puzzle game developer conference, November 5–7, 2025). A YouTube recording and an essay version at eblong.com are both available. Plotkin describes a design pattern he calls "verbs made of smaller verbs": puzzle games where players discover that the moves they've been making at a high level are themselves entire puzzles at a lower level. Using Hadean Lands, Baba Is You, COCOON, and others as case studies, he lays out three conditions for the pattern to hold, and examines why games like Myst came close but ultimately did not achieve it.
You Have to Burn the Rope (2008) — The Three-Minute Metagame Whose Title Was Also the Walkthrough
In April 2008, Swedish student Kian Bashiri released You Have to Burn the Rope on the Flash portals under the moniker "Mazapan." Its title was, quite literally, the solution, and that too-honest confession sparked enormous internet buzz, carrying the game to an Innovation Award finalist slot at the 2009 Independent Games Festival. This essay reads that under-three-minute joke alongside the Flash portal culture of its era, asking why it still left a real mark on the design history of thinking games.
Counterpoint on Chants of Sennaar — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Komugi rated Chants of Sennaar 8.5/10. I read the negative Steam reviews and examined three families of complaints: genre detours, map-less traversal, and a rushed final act at a full price. Where I agree, and where I push back.
对《Antichamber》的反驳 — 从 Steam 低评价重新解读
Komugi 给《Antichamber》打了 8.5/10 分，我从 Steam 低评价中提取出五个主张——信息隐瞒、试错、逆向难度曲线、后半段失速、视觉负担——逐一检验。我在哪里认同，在哪里反驳。
Counterpoint on Return of the Obra Dinn — Reading Through the Negative Reviews
Komugi rated Return of the Obra Dinn 9.5/10. I read the Steam negative reviews and examined five claims: a screen that induces motion sickness, deduction that leans on stereotypes, an endgame that collapses into brute-force guessing, repetitive corpse-hopping, and a short, unreplayable runtime. Where I agree, where I push back.
将递归转化为谜题 —— Patrick's Parabox与Recursed的嵌套语法
箱子里有箱子，其中又出现相同的棋盘。从Recursed到Patrick's Parabox，再到Cocoon，本文以独立游戏制作者的视角，从「为何难度如此之高」入手，梳理以递归为主动词的嵌套谜题设计。
对 Lorelei and the Laser Eyes 的反论 — 从 Steam 差评里重读
面对 Komugi 给到 9.0/10 的 Lorelei and the Laser Eyes,本文从 Steam 差评中抽取四种主张并加以检验:单键操作、永远不知道解法在哪、密码锁的单调,以及毫无预警的闪烁强光。我同意哪些,反对哪些。
对 Outer Wilds 的反论 — 从 Steam 差评里重读
面对 Komugi 给到 9.5/10 的 Outer Wilds,本文从 Steam 差评中抽取四种主张并加以检验:不尊重玩家时间的循环、埋在文本里的故事、痛苦的飞船操作、未被告知的恐怖要素。我同意哪些,反对哪些。
对 Baba Is You 的反论 — 从 Steam 差评里重读
面对 Komugi 给到 9.5/10 的 Baba Is You,本文检验 Steam 与各家评测站反复出现的 5 种差评模式——难度的墙、单解的强加、变量的泛滥、挫败感主导、难度波动。我同意哪些,反对哪些。
元谜题的谱系 — 当规则本身开始移动
「规则本身可被操作」的想法从何而来?从仓库番的单一动词到 Baba Is You 的语言,简短的谱系追溯。
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The Magic Circle
主角被困在一款历经二十年仍未完成的奇幻游戏内部，靠从敌人或物品身上夺取「行为」并粘贴到别的对象上，一边改写这个半成品的世界一边寻找出路的第一人称元谜题游戏。解法并非只有一种。由据称参与过Thief与BioShock制作的团队于2015年推出，题材正是游戏制作本身。
puzzlemeta-puzzlefirst-personThere Is No Game: Wrong Dimension
一款元叙事的点击式冒险游戏。一位解说员坚称「这里没有游戏」并不断阻止你,而你要做的正是拖动和点击游戏本身的外壳——标题画面、菜单、光标。每一章都会跳进对另一种类型的戏仿。由 Draw Me A Pixel 制作。
puzzlemeta-puzzlenarrative-puzzleOneShot
A top-down puzzle adventure: guide a child through a world whose sun has died, carrying a single lightbulb toward the top of it. Between the item-combining, a handful of puzzles reach out into the player's own computer. From Future Cat.
puzzlemeta-puzzlenarrative-puzzlePaquerette Down the Bunburrows
一款潜入地下兔穴、把逃跑的兔子逼入死角的 2D 解谜游戏。兔子按固定规则逃走，因此要用陷阱、镐子和胡萝卜提前堵住它们的退路。五层各具主题的地下、上百只兔子，以及埋在更深处的秘密，出自 Bunstack。
puzzlesokoban-likepathfindingInscryption
一款卡组构筑式卡牌游戏:抽取绘有林中生物的卡牌,献祭手中的部下将其召唤上场,隔着桌子与蜗居山间小屋的说书人莱西对局。起身离桌后,小屋本身又变成一场密室逃脱谜题。出自《Pony Island》作者 Daniel Mullins 之手。
puzzlemeta-puzzleescape-roomPony Island
被困在一台据说由恶魔编写、做工低劣的街机机台中,在驱使小马奔跑的横向卷轴关卡,与机台内部重新排列指令方块的解谜之间往返——一款元谜题游戏。它把游戏画面的边框与 UI 本身用作机关,是 Daniel Mullins 的第一部商业作品。
puzzlemeta-puzzlenarrative-puzzleVoid Stranger
用手杖拾起地板砖，放置到另一格——这一手穿越陷阱与敌人，下降进一座被遗忘的地下迷宫。这是 System Erasure 的一部2D仓库番解谜游戏，以极简的动词撑开深不见底的机关与隐藏故事。
puzzlesokoban-likemeta-puzzleChants of Sennaar
在让人想起巴别塔的巨塔上向上攀爬,凭借画与肢体动作的线索,解读每一层居民使用的未知语言——一款观察与推理之作。
observationnarrative-puzzlemeta-puzzleAntichamber
只用白墙与黑线绘成的、把非欧几里得空间本身作为语法的第一人称谜题。
observationmeta-puzzlefirst-personBlue Prince
每天抽取并放置门后房间的庄园式 Roguelite 谜题。
logic-gridpathfindingmeta-puzzleLorelei and the Laser Eyes
在一座单色调的诡谲酒店中,纵横解开150余道密码、数字与符号谜题。
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzleCOCOON
球体内有世界,那个世界里又有球体。
meta-puzzlenarrative-puzzleassemblyPatrick's Parabox
递归式仓库番的范本级教学设计。
sokoban-likemeta-puzzleOuter Wilds
探索每 22 分钟循环的太阳系,解开古代种族之谜的宇宙探究。
narrative-puzzleobservationmeta-puzzleBaba Is You
推动规则本身的语言版仓库番。
meta-puzzlesokoban-likeReturn of the Obra Dinn
在幽灵船上推理 60 名乘员的死因与身份,保险调查员的悬疑作品。
logic-gridobservationnarrative-puzzleHer Story
在警方数据库中检索实拍片段,组合丈夫消失之谜的 FMV。
narrative-puzzleobservationmeta-puzzle
