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I've always played with the thought (too lazy to ever get down to it) about multi-dimensional mazes. They could be very small, but still make for mind-boggling
by V-2 10y ago
I've always played with the thought (too lazy to ever get down to it) about multi-dimensional mazes. They could be very small, but still make for mind-boggling puzzles.
Even a 4D maze; let's call it a 3D maze with time-travelling. Could be just 3 "squares" deep in the 4th dimension for a start: "yesterday", "today" and "tomorrow".
- baldeagle 10y agoThat is kinda like the premise of the 'maze runner'. The maze re-ordered itself every night.
- V-2 10y agoTrue, and "Cube" also. Only to some extent though: these mazes reordered by themselves, and those trapped in them couldn't "travel in time", or navigate between different setups.
- pavel_lishin 10y agoI think I remember seeing a game like this; moving along one axis also moved you through different periods of time, so that a wall that blocks your path "today" wasn't built "yesterday" and might be a ruin you can jump over "tomorrow".
- bartread 10y agoIt's not a maze game, but that sort of reminds me of Braid (platformer featured in Indie Game: The Movie) where you had to move back and forth through time to navigate certain obstacles. Very cool, and very beautifully rendered.
- seanwilson 10y ago> Even a 4D maze; let's call it a 3D maze with time-travelling. Could be just 3 "squares" deep in the 4th dimension for a start: "yesterday", "today" and "tomorrow". Have you seen this? "Miegakure [Hide & Reveal] is a game where you navigate a four-dimensional world to perform miraculous feats and solve puzzles." http://miegakure.com/ http://miegakure.com/ Mind-boggling is a good word for it!
- V-2 10y agoThis looks super interesting, thanks!
- sp332 10y agoThere's a game coming out called Miegakure that involves 4D puzzles, with only 3 discrete position along the 4th dimension. http://marctenbosch.com/news/2015/02/miegakure-and-understanding-and-parallel-universes/ http://marctenbosch.com/news/2015/02/miegakure-and-understan... Instead of navigating directly into the 4th dimension, you have to rotate the world around you, move a bit, then rotate it back to move sideways.
- Bjartr 10y agoI can't find it now, but there was a Minecraft "adventure" map that was played by a couple of the Yogscast (I think Lewis and Simon) that involved moving back and forth through time and you had to be in the right spots when moving switching times to get across various barriers. So this is definitely a concept that has been explored. Thinking further, The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages definitely involved puzzles like this.
- xigency 10y agoI remember trying to solve a spatial 4D maze using this program: http://www.urticator.net/maze/ http://www.urticator.net/maze/ It's difficult.