wisprabbit

hello I make puzzles and games. I hope you're okay with that.

This site will be replaced with a better one soon, but it's going to take a while for me to build it and archive my puzzles and projects there. I'll put a link up top when it's ready.

puzzles

logic puzzles

I made a bunch of Japanese-style logic puzzles which you can find on Twitter by searching #rabbitpuzzles. Yes I know Twitter is not long for this world. I'm working on archiving the puzzles properly.

cryptic crosswords

I have a bunch of crosswords, mostly cryptic crosswords, on a blog on Crosshare. Try them. You might even like them.

games

interactive fiction

Vampire Ltd (2020): Infiltrate a business rival's corporate campus to commit sabotage, and also you're a vampire and so is he. A ~60-minute game controlled by text parser (like Zork and that kind of game), with a few mild puzzles and a few good jokes. Took 13th place in the 26th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition.

Honk! (2023): You're a clown. You also play as one in this game. Help your fellow circus performers perform their shows, and foil a plot to destroy the circus in the process. A ~2-hour text parser game with one or two good puzzles and jokes. Took 4th place in the 29th Annual Interactive Fiction Competition. That link is just the IFDb page for now until I finish bug-fixing and improving the game for itch.io. I'm sorry I called you a clown.

other puzzle games

Arcane (2019): Run through little one-screen dungeons collecting gems. You can rearrange blocks by clicking to pick them up and put them down wherever they'll fit. letting you open up passages and weigh down pressure plates. Downloadable .exe file for Windows only (sorry!). Inspired by DROD. I want to do much more with this someday.

credits for testing other people's games

I've had a small hand in the following:

• The Eleusinian Miseries (Mike Russo, 2020): Text adventure set at a gathering of an Ancient Greek cult, where you really want to impress your friend. Very funny game which nails the Wodehousian vibe and has a really great endgame puzzle. I beta-tested this.
• Entangled (Dark Star, 2020): Text adventure about exploring a crumbling neighbourhood in two time periods and trying to build a better future. A very clever systems-driven game with a lot going on under the hood and a lot of flexibility in how you tackle the puzzles. I beta-tested this.
• The Faeries of Haelstowne (Christopher Merriner): Retro-styled text adventure, about 6-8 hours long. As you investigate the disappearance of a vicar in a sleepy English countryside, you become embroiled in something more occult and pagan. Really nice world-spanning puzzles, great characters, and a well-paced story. I beta-tested this.
• The Godkiller - Chapter 1 (Seespace Labs, 2022): Full 20-hour-or-so puzzle game about exploring a strange afterlife. A Sokoban-like with fun and slippery block-pushing gimmicks, a lot of cool surprises, and a very kind attitude to the player. Also it's a musical. It's good. I alpha-tested this and did some marketing and social media tasks for Seespace Labs.
• 4x4 Archipelago (Agnieszka Trzaska, 2021): Hypertext (i.e. Twine) RPG. Explore 16 islands and make your name as a legendary adventurer. Compulsively playable; incredibly satisfying to build a character up from nothing. I tested version 1.2, released in 2022.
• Zero Chance of Recovery (Andrew Schultz, 2022): A classic chess puzzle reimagined in text asventure form. It's a king-and-pawn endgame, except your pawn is about to be captured and their pawn is racing down the board; can you salvage a draw? Very nicely implemented with an interesting final stinger. I beta-tested this.
• You (Carter X Gwertzman, 2024): A mild puzzler which is as cute as the dickens, focused on the exploration of gender feelings and carving your own self in a strange world. I beta-tested this.

socials

You may also find me on:

• cohost: @wisprabbit - the site is shuttering and this will probably be a dead link by 2025, but it will remain first in my heart. Eggbug Forever
• itch: wisprabbit
• bluesky: wisprabbit@bsky.social (with Cohost's closure, I've admitted defeat and set up shop here. They can make me go to Bluesky but they can't make me look at the Discover tab)
• mastodon: @wisprabbit@mastodon.social (I don't use this very often)
• twitter: @wisprabbit (I don't use this at all anymore but it remains my puzzle archive until I finish that new website)
• wordpress: wisprabbit (I don't use this anymore but there are a few old interactive fiction reviews here)
• if I ever end up on threads I want you to kill me
• anything else I've either forgotten or it's my secret and none of your business

contact

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