Mike Bithell explains how his history teacher made Thomas Was Alone possible

Mike Bithell is the indie developer behind games like Thomas Was Alone, Volume, and Subsurface and Quarantine Circular. Plenty of other folks have contributed to those titles, but today Bithell shared an especially curious credit, which he says was instrumental to Thomas Was Alone: Mrs. Woods, his history teacher. “Teen Mike wanted to make games,” Bithell writes. “He did not want to write essays. Mrs Woods, my history teacher, wanted an essay on the life of individuals living in a feudal manor. She wanted it by next week. I somehow had the balls to ask her if I could make her a game instead.” Somehow, Mrs. Woods agreed. Bithell tweeted out a photo of the floppy disk that housed the resulting game - the title ‘Manor!’ is pencilled in over the front label. It was a point-and-click adventure where you walked around a manor asking questions, and Bithell took the game back to school to walk Mrs. Woods through it. She was impressed enough with the results to let him continue making games for those essay assignments.

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