Mike Bithell  creator of Thomas Was Alone  knows a lot about Robin Hood As we sit in a Starbucks five thousand miles from either of our homes  his tank-like laptop greedily drinking electricity from the coffee store’s wall  I find myself scribbling notes not about his upcoming stealth puzzler Volume  but about how it wasn’t until King Henry VIII took a shine to the story that the behooded thiefster became a noble character