Variations on a maze
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One common feature of the many different maze games from the period is orientation: all both rectilinear and aligned to the Cartesian axes. Different examples have their own aesthetics -- Pac Man partitions the screen space into an open field a indirect routes, Maze Craze creates a traditional full-screen overview with a single solution, while Adventure produces a claustrophobic view in which only part of the impossibly wrapping maze topology is visible at any time -- usually nearby but inaccessible paths. What all have in common is that they are constructed of horizontal/vertical walls that are orthogonal to the edges of the screen and the scan line of the display. | One common feature of the many different maze games from the period is orientation: all both rectilinear and aligned to the Cartesian axes. Different examples have their own aesthetics -- Pac Man partitions the screen space into an open field a indirect routes, Maze Craze creates a traditional full-screen overview with a single solution, while Adventure produces a claustrophobic view in which only part of the impossibly wrapping maze topology is visible at any time -- usually nearby but inaccessible paths. What all have in common is that they are constructed of horizontal/vertical walls that are orthogonal to the edges of the screen and the scan line of the display. | ||
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