has almost become a trite buzzword. I'm not saying the suggestion is invalid, it just seems to be the go-to critique in any given level design forum.

cool looking map, btw. 

Needs more horizontality. 

The trick is to pitch the level 45 degrees so that you cover the most of each axis. That way you have plenty of verticality and horizontality. 

The way of the future. 

45 degree jam! 

4th dimensionality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yW--eQaA2I 

which is 1) probably terrible and 2) probably already been implemented at some point and proven to be terrible.

the idea: an fps with normal player movement with the addition of being able to rotate the entire level. can't get to a switch beyond your reach? rotate! trying to get to a hole in the ceiling? rotate! is that wall just a skoshe too high? rotate!

Sounds like a migraine inducing pukefest. I hate myself for even thinking of this. 

and you should get to making it before some numbnuts steals the idea and turns it into the next Portal and makes a ton of money. 

 

 

I imagined the same thing for a game based on Escher's drawings. Hipnotic and AD do rotations. Would it be possible to rotate an entire map? That would probably be a mapping nightmare.

While not being rotation per se, Cube had the possibility of shifting gravitational direction so you could walk on walls and ceilings to a similar effect. 

Funny that you mentioned Portal because I remember playing a puzzle game (not first person, though) on the PS1, I think, where you had to escape a series of cubic rooms which you needed to rotate to reach the exit. The name eludes me. 

Of course the best implementation would be to "fake" it by simply rotating gravity and camera orientation - the level would actually be (mostly) static - no need to make it literally rotate.

Dynamic entities in the level would need to react to the shifting gravity though - that's where all the work would go. 

1. Just replay Prey.
2. Not only vertical; it needs to rotate freely around all axes. 

Not sure if you're implying I was only talking about vertical because I wasn't - the gravity vector can be any orientation. 

I can see this being an aesthetic but not a functioning mechanic. His art works because it's a fixed perspective in which he manipulates the perception of depth. In a 3d game you have a variable perspective and actual depth. I remember seeing a 2d escher game on steam that looked pretty nifty. 

Just replay Prey.

Best use of "topsy-turvy" for a fps in my opinion. 

Monument Valley 

simply rotating gravity
Quake supports this?

I can see this being an aesthetic but not a functioning mechanic. His art works because it's a fixed perspective in which he manipulates the perception of depth.
Yeah, I should have mentioned this idea was mostly inspired by his maze-of-staircases stuff. I realize that his optical illusions would be harder if not impossible to pull off. 

We're not talking about a Quake mod. 

 

Makes me think of an old map from "the jedi returns". There was this spacecrft that hung diagonally, where the player hangs downunder.
A strange experience, for all elevators work arcangle. 

Serious Sam supports it.

But not the HD remake, AFAIK. 

Nope, HD takes away the awesome gravity stuff...was a large disappoint for me. 

Rotating Kinn and changing his gravity.