Non-Euclidean Worlds Engine 

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This would be great for a Alice in Wonderland game.

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.

WOW. This is actually mind blowing

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

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

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

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.

I need a non euclidean highway to work...

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

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

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

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

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

Fascinating, such potential !

this is amazing technology! keep up the good work!

"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

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

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

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.

My brain: *[Windows XP Shutdown sound]*

My brain: "This makes total sense" Also my brain: [Bacon frying noises]

Awesome video, nice work!

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

This is just a job application in disguise

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

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.

That was super relaxing...

teacher: "come on guys you'll be fine, the test isn't that confusing" the test:

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

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

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

Teacher: The test isn't that confusing The test:

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

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. ;)

so much POTENTIAL. i love this!

*Something’s wrong with your Minecraft.*

“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.”

almost like that one weird old minecraft resource pack. great work!

I love this so much!

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

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

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

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

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

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.

Thank you for breaking and setting my brain on fire

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

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

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

This is insane on so many levels

This would be an interesting way to create a tardis layout for vr games. Neat.

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

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

Man this is trippy

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!

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

"It's bigger on the inside."

exactly wha I was looking for, nice one

Very interesting works 🔥

"the test isn't that confusing" The test:

Renders non-euclidean space with infinite doors parallel to each other. CPU: Reaches an unhealthy temperature.

This video inspired me to recreate this effect in Doom for one of my maps.

this is mind blowing

“Yoo where the bathroom” “Just go around the bedroom twice” “Wait what”

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

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing :)

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

1:17 "Honey where's the kitchen?" "Oh, it's in room [REDACTED]"

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

This is incredible

That was brilliant!

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

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

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

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