Forget 3D, I'm Ready To Play This 4D Video Game



Cool, huh?

Speaking of Mario, this game's a platformer. Your jumping around, pushing blocks, exploring a world.

It's been two years since designer Marc 10 Bosch first showed me Miegakure and convinced me that a game set in four spatial dimensions is possible. The maths allows it... all you have to do is take any point in our three-dimensional understanding of space (x,y,z) and add a fourth coordinate to locate its position in a fourth dimension. And if the maths allows it, a computer can plot it. If a computer can plot it, we can run through it. And if we can run through it... voila! Video game.




    Thats not 4 dimensions....unless the game uses 3D technology, it is still only 2 dimensions, the whole "4th dimension" is just shifting from one version of the world to another....he has basically turned the iOS game Shift into a colourful version

      Err no you can move along the w,x,y and z axes, just because you're only viewing it in 3d doesn't mean you aren't traversing a 4D level.

    I can't wait for this, I've been jonesing for this game ever since your previous article on it back in 2010!

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