The lights are on
A group from Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center is working on a forced perspective game, and have some impressive technology to showcase in an interesting tech demo video.
The idea behind the game and tech demo is that objects, regardless of true size, will look larger or smaller depending on your perspective. That idea is manipulated in the interest of building a puzzle game. The tech demo video below is simply a proof of concept at the moment.
Developer Pillow Castle Games is promising more videos and updates in the future as it continues to flesh out the idea.
[Source: Pillow Castle Games, via PopSci]
Our TakeJust watching the video sort of hurts my brain. I'm definitely curious to see the final product. Even as a tech demo, there are already a number of interesting mechanics at play here for solving puzzles.
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Eat your heart out, portal.
Interesting video. It will be exciting to see this tech used in games like Portal and other puzzle/platformers.
That is amazing. I want it, I want it now.
OMG...Moonlight Sonata=instant love! Gotta say it's a fun quirky little idea, but how the application can be done for an entire game that doesn't overstay it's welcome or become repetitive, we have yet to see. So far I like it but it'll need more to it I think. I'll keep an eye on it :]
That was pretty awesome. I want to see more.
And I thought Portal was confusing...
That is awesome.
This is by far one of the most interesting puzzle concepts I've seen. Portal's got nothing in this. The window part really blew me away. Especially considering that the land inside the window would change in size as well.
That's one of the coolest things I've ever seen!
Holy crap, that was amazing.
I love this. The portal part at the end especially blew my mind.
This force perspective puzzle concept was introduced to me through Fez, and I loved it. Your brain has to wrap around it in a similar way, however game play is obviously tremendously different. Great idea, but of course it has to be a fun game to, to get people to play it.
I want to see this on the Oculus Rift. Even more brain bending.
Definitely takes your mind to the a similar place like when playing Portal. Very, very, cool.
There's already a flash game similar to this on Kongregate I believe.
Valve needs to hire these guys. They have created the new mechanic for Portal 3!