(this was a response to a post on cohost by Alan Hazelden announcing the tenth anniversary of PuzzleScript)
I’ve been making games since the ’90s with HyperCard, and even posting them online since college, but PuzzleScript’s release in 2013 was really when I started releasing games in a way beyond just uploading them to my obscure personal website with the expectation that only two people I know in real life would play them. Now I post them in places where tens, maybe even on rare occasion hundreds of people might play them! I dunno that I’ll ever make a “serious,” “substantial” video game, but I’ve definitely made way more unserious, unsubstantial video games than I would’ve had it not existed, and I’m super thankful to Stephen Lavelle for that.
I made a little puzzle sketch to mark the occasion. I’ll upload it to itch.io eventually, but in the true spirit of PuzzleScript, I think you should just play it on the website itself: https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=21f0a4818c539dae0cfd861b89b70dc2
(If you don’t recognize some graphics: they’re from Thinky Collective games! I had a grand idea to include a sprite from every game in the official PuzzleScript gallery, but decided not to do that after quickly realizing it would take me a week to finish. They’re some cool community projects that PuzzleScript made possible :eggbug:)
A couple of other tributes by people who aren’t me:
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