Bird Mansion

Bird Mansion was a web-based, first-person graphical adventure game, running on the author's own engine "Pixal". It was created as an entry for the 2008 TIGSource Commonplace Book competition, and was inspired by the following three entries from H. P. Lovecraft's notebook:

Visitor from tomb—stranger at some publick concourse followed at midnight to graveyard where he descends into the earth.

Hideous old house on steep city hillside—Bowen St.—beckons in the night—black windows—horror unnam’d—cold touch and voice—the welcome of the dead.

Photius tells of a (lost) writer named Damascius, who wrote “Incredible Fictions” “Tales of Daemons” “Marvellous Stories of Appearances from the Dead”.

Players took on the role of a reclusive inventor who has spent twenty years obsessing over a lost love, using his scientific work and inventions as refuge from his grief. When his clockwork tracking device suddenly activates, the protagonist follows its signal and encounters a mysterious red-haired woman who leads him to a foreboding mansion surrounded by a graveyard and dark forest.

The gameplay focused on exploration and puzzle-solving without any combat elements. Players navigated through the mansion's various rooms, the surrounding graveyard, and the forest below. The game emphasized reading descriptions, examining objects, and collecting items to solve environmental puzzles.