Revisiting his iconic puzzle game after 11 years, an indie developer was so stumped by his own work that he thought he'd shipped a bug
I don't even remember ever building this puzzle
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Alexander Bruce, the solo developer of Antichamber, has shared on Twitter that he recently went back to play the 2013 title and thought he’d discovered a bug when he couldn’t get past one of the game’s puzzles. “Running around in Antichamber again, I solved something, didn’t end up where I wanted, and was like ‘What the fuck? Did I ship a bug here? What happened?'” the developer recalls.
As it turns out, Bruce’s game was working just fine. Instead, the developer had forgotten how to solve the puzzle he designed all those years ago. In the same tweet, Bruce writes: “And then [I] realised that no, it’s just the game. I got tricked the same as everyone else because it’s been sooooo long.”
If there’s anything to take away from this situation it’s that Antichamber’s puzzles …