37 years ago, my brother, Rand, and I released The Manhole: our debut game. Its simple point and click interface served as the template for all our games through Riven. Why "Prolog"? We used existing consulting company for our first printing. After finding a publisher, we founded @cyan.com - ThreadSky

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tinselman.bsky.social • 134 days ago

37 years ago, my brother, Rand, and I released The Manhole: our debut game. Its simple point and click interface served as the template for all our games through Riven.

Why "Prolog"? We used existing consulting company for our first printing. After finding a publisher, we founded @cyan.com

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tinselman.bsky.social•134 days ago

For those of you who are interested in this sort of Video Game history. Here are the instruction sheets from The Manhole.

realchogon.bsky.social•134 days ago

I love looking at really old instructions.
Special Information: If only you could prevent 'unmonitored traipsing' by disabling the arrow keys. 😆

bennethon.bsky.social•133 days ago

Oh man! When I was a kid I loved making adventure games in HyperCard. This really brings me back.

alphajuno.bsky.social•133 days ago

What kind of Mac was used for its development?

tinselman.bsky.social•132 days ago

Mac 512k.

alphajuno.bsky.social•132 days ago

What about for Cosmic Osmo?

tinselman.bsky.social•131 days ago

I feel like it was a Macintosh SE. I can’t be sure.

alphajuno.bsky.social•132 days ago

Wowee!!

cgbessellieu.bsky.social•132 days ago

Loved "The Manhole" growing up. Beautiful how the idea of bringing a storybook to life jumpstarted Cyan. Wow had no idea it had 650 cards! Would love for there to be an artistic educational game renaissance for all ages.

yaliofdaggers.bsky.social•133 days ago

This came out 1 year before I was born!

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