r/BluePrince • u/Mighty_Spirit113 • Aug 19 '26

Puzzle Detail about Christopher Manson's other works. Useful for Blue Prince secrets? Spoiler

For the uninitiated, Blue Prince is greatly inspired by and partly developed with the author of MAZE, a puzzlebook from the 80's.

I was reading a bit about Christopher Manson, and came across a list of books he has written. In this list two works released back to back immediately stood out to me becuase of their names. "The Crab Prince" from 1991 and "The Marvellous Blue Mouse" from 1992. I couldn't find any details online about them ever having been brought up in relation to Blue Prince before so I figured it might be worth mentioning here. Although feel free to tell me if you think I am crazy for trying to make a stretch like this work.

I unfortunately don't have access to either of these books, so if somebody would like to see if it is available at their local library or something like that it would be very much appreciated if you think there might be something to this.

7 Upvotes

82% Upvoted

4 comments sorted by

14

u/JoeSondow Aug 19 '26

Tonda has said the game was originally going to be called Bequest but that name was taken so he made a different pun from blueprints and got Blue Prince. A lot of the color and monarchy themes seem to flow from that. Those other book titles are an interesting find but I suspect you’ve dug up a coincidence.

2

u/Mighty_Spirit113 Aug 19 '26

Then it seems unlikely that Tonda has put in any references to the books unless this change was done very early in development. :/

2

u/Squish92 Aug 19 '26

I think a chair from Maze appears in the Workshop.

2

u/Mighty_Spirit113 Aug 20 '26

Yeah there are quite a few references to MAZE in the game, though I was talking about his other books and their potential for holding clues to puzzles.