"Wheres the toilet?" "Five times around the corner."

fun fact: Ikea stores are the only place in the world with non-euclidean floor planning

Wow this is awesome! A VR horror game that happens entirely in a non euclidian space the size of a room would be very cool

I'm quite surprised such technology hasn't really been used in mainstream games, to replaced loading screens, area transfers, or just to create interesting puzzles.

"I couldn't do it in Unity so I had to make my own engine." Ah yes the simplest solution

This is what it feels like to look for the bathroom at your friends house

There's actually a VR game that uses this and it's incredible You're wandering through a maze in a dystopian metal pipe world with different robots roaming the halls and you don't use your stick to move at all, you have to physically walk into spaces Played it like a year ago forgot the name but it's on Sidequest. Edit: Just found it it's called Tea For God and it's free

Oh god imagine getting stuck in an infinite room Non-Euclidean house, you think you're walking in circles, but in fact you're just going deeper in.

Finally, we can have a spongebob game that contains his house.

imagine buying a 4-room house then it turns out to only have 3 rooms

Portal 2's version of the Source engine has this feature. They're called world portals. In the game itself it's only used twice, but the community has dome some pretty crazy stuff with it. The Unreal Chamber is an example.

These are the sort of trippy spaces that I think most Backroom/Liminal games are missing. It'd be really cool to see these sorta of illusions happening in very realistic spaces.

Grandpa: "Back in my day, we didn't have euclidean planes of existence."

Create a horror game with this engine, a horror game that both scares and confuses the f**k out of the player

"I can cram an infinite amount of space, into any finite space." Me, immediately without thinking: Well, that's annoying. Don't do that.

They did something like this in Rime. They had a hallway that would extend forever so you could keep running, but as soon as you turned around, then again, a wall would appear. And another was this big room with multiple hallways that would loop to completely different entrances than intuition would suggest

Finally, a game that can capture what it’s like to shop in an IKEA

People are talking about how this would make a great puzzle game. It would make a god tier horror game.

Oh, this is very, very interesting. That last remark about VR is something i've thought about some time ago and was wondering if such idea could work - amazing to see someone else not only to have same idea but make proof of concept too! Great work!

my math teacher spent a whole period explaining this for our class. thank you for giving us an easy period

This guy: Non-euclidean game engines Horror game makers: *heavy breathing*

This would be great for a Alice in Wonderland game.

Dude you're so freaking creative. This is so amazing!

man i can see massive potential for a puzzle game keep up the good work

“I’ll show you the door.” “I can find it.” “Probably not.”

“No big deal, just wrote a new engine.” That’s pretty cool

Build Engine worked like this. Rooms were connected by "portals" and the portals could be fairly arbitrarily placed, so you could have tunnels that "pass through" another room and so on. Fabian Sandlard did an interesting teardown.

I have seen stuff like this in my dreams for decades now. Glad that someone has made some tools with which I can now demonstrate them to others.

“I can cram an infinite amount of space into any finite space” sounds like such a flex

This video is 5 minutes long, but it feels like it's 20 minutes

WOW. This is actually mind blowing

I had the opportunity once to meet with geordi la forge, and the end of this video explains how the holodeck works for large open spaces. Well done.

Mom: can you get my wallet, it's in my purse The purse:

Apparently this is being reccomended to a lot of people. Antichamber is a game like this. It's on steam and it is phenomenal

Reading lovecraft and hearing about non Euclidean areas is mind bending but seeing something similar in virtual life is amazing

Awesome idea, well presented, well designed and rendered Brings a lot of very fun possibilities Thanks for sharing

"And notice how you can see both objects at once" is the kind of stuff you only say if you've spent weeks on hunting bugs and crashes to make it work

"Hey guys, I've created an engine that will break your brain"

this is amazing technology! keep up the good work!

I’ve watched this so many times, and still so satisfying lol

I need a non euclidean highway to work...

This is just a job application in disguise

Fascinating, such potential !

The puzzle game "Antichamber" was based around being non-euclidean. Well worth playing, especially if this kind of design interests you

This has potential to be some of the most mind bending VR games possible, im kind of scared of the prospect

You could create some really good horror games with this concept.

These kinds of games have inspired me for years now. This is why I love games like tea for god. It's so awesome to see this concept slowly start to make it's way into games of all kinds.

The music is perfectly in time with the seconds on the progress bar

My brain: *[Windows XP Shutdown sound]*

This would be incredibly useful in a horror game. Even this completely harmless video with light atmosphere and joyful music is already creeping me out

so much POTENTIAL. i love this!

That was super relaxing...

"Instead of banging our heads against walls trying to make VR more realistic, let's just break reality." I approve of this plan.

do this, with vr, with horror. trip some people out.

Thanks a lot for this inspiring video and your very educational explanations! 👍

this is mind blowing

Nothing’s weird. I’m an interior designer and 5 rooms in 2 rooms apartment is usual customer’s wish.

Imagine a survival adventure game like this where the world constantly warps around you

I’m stumbling upon so many great videos to watch while tripping

That's a really nice idea for my rendering engine! I'm new at Vulkan right now and am at a part where it just got easy.

*Something’s wrong with your Minecraft.*

Girl: Why is he not recognizing my signals??? Her signals:

played viewfinder a few weeks back. it made my brain not brain just like this video. I love this stuff.

Awesome video, nice work!

This dude's a timelord, he can do dimensional engineering

“Where’s the bathroom?” “So what you want to do is go around the column clockwise three times, then go through the six rooms to your left, and then go through the shrinking tunnel so you fit through the door.”

Man this is trippy

Thank you for breaking and setting my brain on fire

my grandpa was simply built different, living in a non-euclidean plane of existence

SOMEBODY GIVE THIS GUY A TEAM, SOME FUNDING, AND MAKE A HORROR GAME

Some of these, like the pillar and the monkey, give off some strong Mario 64 vibes. Amazing they could put that stuff into the game!

That you created this three-dimensional world alone is crazy, but "this" is something else! The craziest part is that this was five years ago.

Imagine a non euclidean maze. It would totally break your spatial awareness

1:40 Imagine what it feels like to hug that pillar. You can't touch your arms, but they are in the same place relative to you.

I use to do this with the old Descent Engine to really F with people's perspective. The way maps work in decent is rooms are simply connected by the facing. Thus you could have a larger room attached to door in a smaller room. One of the PvP maps I made was giant room with a cube in the middle and on each side it had a long tunnel which took you to another version of the room. So there were 4 versions of the room with the top opposite sides going to the same same room which were color coded for easy reference. Thus the Blue room would have a cube in the middle that was Red, Green, and Yellow signifying that the tunnel on that side went to those rooms. It was also fun making mazes similar to that 6 room circle shown in the video to completely screw with people's perception. This was back before inet days so mainly just shared maps on local BBSes. Though this engine can do a bit more as the Descent engine was still limited to being based orientation. Thus you could enter a 6 room house but the exit of the 6th room would be on the opposite side as if you had made a loop and a half to reach the door. The pillar thing was something I also did though I didn't have a pillar and instead had nothing there. So as you went around the circle it looked like the outside walls were changing colors and it eventually looped back on itself. It was odd to see someone on the other side of the room fly to the right and suddenly disappear halfway across the room. For those that don't know Descent was an old 3D Space Ship fighter game that took place in an underground mining system, hence the name. I doubt the developers originally intended the use I did as when messing with a map editor I noticed that I could overlap the rooms and they didn't actually merge in the space of the game thus it allowed for the crazy stuff I did. ;)

Wow, you should make a VR horror game with this mechanic. This is so cool!

"this a weird one" I think we were already beyond that. I used to imagine if things like this could be developed. Awesome job.

Teacher: Why are you late? Student: *intense breathing*

exactly wha I was looking for, nice one

"Why do i keep writing engines?" Real subtle flex there. Reaaalll subtle. ( /srcsm)

Imagine an FPS that utilizes this. Having to fight someone on non-Euclidean geometry would be really interesting.

2:08 "This is a weird one" Bro, everything was already weird before

iv seen this video a long time ago. every time it suggest this video i have to watch it. so mind blowing.

You kids are so lucky, when I was young I had to walk across 10 feet of plush carpet just to change a Tv channel, no remotes back then! Hard times man, those were bad days!

I can imagine horror games will have a field day with this sort of thing. You've got serious lovecraft alien geometries potential here.

"It was hard to do it on earth so i made another planet to do it."

You are pretty talented for figuring out on how to make this engine, i dont even know how to explain how to make this script

This is insane on so many levels

This guy is a legend, he made this without using Roblox Studio

I used to pretend that pillar mechanic was a real life thing when I was a kid. If I were following my mom thru a crowd, I’d need to weave in between the same people she did or I’d end up lost in a parallel dimension.

There’s a book series called The Chronicles of Amber, and in book 7 or so (10 total) the main character describes this phenomenon as “ways,” as in go this way, go that way, walk through this wall, etc. He talked about an ever changing art gallery that he got lost in. It would be so cool to see that in software like this!

"Why would you make a tunnel that's _longer_ on the inside?" "Where do you think all that extra space from the other tunnel went?"

"It's bigger on the inside."

Ah, now I see why Lovecraft feared non-euclidian math.

This is incredible

It's very very clever how simple this is implemented in code. Very fucking cool.

i swear this is what those trampoline places felt like when i was a kid

Meanwhile in another dimension: - "Schrödinger is still searching for his cat in his 10 by 10 room."

Could you imagine this in an open world? Like omg, you could have it like in skyrim where the exteriors are smaller than the interiors but you can just walk into the interior seamlessly despite it being larger, including the transition between the open world and the city spaces.

Very interesting works 🔥