Wolfenstein 1D

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by prawn • 15 years ago

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eulo• 15 years ago

MEMORIEZ!

hoodoof• 15 years ago

Some people have too much time on their hands. :-)

TeMPOraL• 15 years ago

First 1D game that I actually enjoyed playing :).

eps2• 15 years ago

And probably the last one too :)

cturner• 15 years ago

Very cool. I've been working on a 1d roguelike for a while, similar approach. Although a bit easier to know what's going on there because you get symbols rather than shadows.

e1ven• 15 years ago

I love the idea, I just wish there were more of a game there! I think this might be do-able with timing puzzles, perhaps, or having to open doors on the right, then double-back, and open a door behind you, etc.

It's a great concept for a joke, but It'd be even cooler if it were playable, more than just move-right, shoot stuff ;)

tedkalaw• 15 years ago

I kind of like it as commentary on the state of modern shooters ;)

Groxx• 15 years ago

Would that make this a post-modern shooter?

edit: if so, I wonder what the Jackson Pollock FPS of our current era would be. Or Mondrian Tournament?

aashay• 15 years ago

I literally lol'd

drivebyacct23• 15 years ago

Is it still two dimensional if one of the dimensions is only observed in a single of its smallest divisibly sized unit?

jeffool3• 15 years ago

To be fair, if it were first-person, it would be 1d. You'd just have the one pixel of what was in front of you.

drivebyacct23• 15 years ago

How does "in front of you" exist in 1d?

bnegreve2• 15 years ago

No coordinate system required, that would be Wolf0D.

starwed• 15 years ago

Nah, because a single number defines your position in the world.

There is no movement or freedom along the axis you're talking about.

yuvipanda2• 15 years ago

The "Send $35 to Apogee Software Productions" bought back fond memories of playing these 'demos' as a kid and wishing I were in the US so I could actually buy these things.

atomicdog• 15 years ago

Call Apogee and quote "Aardwolf".

yuvipanda2• 15 years ago

So they can tell me 'you are stuck, restart!'? :D

Luyt• 15 years ago

Did the original Wolfenstein also feature the Horst Wessel Lied?

BTW, Castle Wolfenstein's scenery is based on Wewelsburg [1] which housed a SS 'school' before WW2.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wewelsburg#The_Wewelsburg_SS_Sc...

ido2• 15 years ago

I believe all the sounds and music are direct rips from the original game.

CWuestefeld• 15 years ago

Wolfenstein 3D != Castle Wolfenstein

The latter was a game almost 30 years ago on Apple ][ (and other 8 bit machines?).

dimentions2• 15 years ago

The game is actually two dimensional in the sense that videos are considered three dimensional. The independent variables involved are the 1-D line and time.

(Sorry just got up from studying signal processing, couldn't help but point that out).

wlievens• 15 years ago

Nobody calls Quake a 4D game.

dimentions2• 15 years ago

Well they should, because with just 3 co-ordinates you would be able to define the point in space and that is not enough. Dimension refers to the minimum number of independent variables that must be used to define a given point.

Anyho, a little sense of humor would not have killed you you know.

grannyg00se• 15 years ago

Even just listening to the audio was great.

joshu• 15 years ago

Waiting for Wolfenstein 4d.

wbhart• 15 years ago

1.5D would have added that half-realistic quality which is sadly lacking in this unrealistic shadow game.

prtk• 15 years ago

I'm much better at this advanced 1D version. :D

olalonde• 15 years ago

First thought: people living in parallel 5D universes must find 3D games boring to hell :)

skrebbel• 15 years ago

I just landed and I can confirm that things are very bland here (and somewhat confusing).

mootothemax• 15 years ago

First thought: people living in parallel 5D universes must find 3D games boring to hell

Just for the sake of argument, don't 3D games also include the 4th dimension? Surely a marketing guy from a games must have tried "NEW 4D ACTION YEAH!"-sloganed advertising by now?

morsch2• 15 years ago

You mean time? Not really. Few games allow any movement backwards in time, and practically none have free interaction with this "fourth" dimension as they have with the other three.

locci• 15 years ago

Ken Kutaragi, ex CEO of SCEI, around 2006 declared the new Playstation 3 would be 4D.

jeffreyg• 15 years ago

There's also a 4th spatial dimension. The 4th dimension does not automatically equal time - it is only considered that when talking about "space-time".

also, check out Braid (braidgame.com) for a fun puzzle game that requires you to consider time travel.

shin_lao• 15 years ago

The sad thing is that most FPS are now 1D as well : one big long corridor...

siphr• 15 years ago

I know exactly what you mean. I have stopped classifying many of the new ones as games. Instead I refer to most of them as Interactive experiences which is more suited to them for what they do.

pmjordan• 15 years ago

I know it was made in 2008, but I'm really enjoying Far Cry 2 at the moment, which is about as far removed from an on-rails shooter as you can get.

antimora• 15 years ago

Making the figures and line bigger than 1 pixel would have still preserved 1D affect. Also the line does not need to be straight either - it could have been curved. The only requirement is the degree of freedom to move (back and forth).

rimantas4• 15 years ago

Curved line means 2D.

perokreco• 15 years ago

No it does not. If you can only move forward or backward on it, it is still 1D, as your position can be described by 1 coordinate.

smilliken• 15 years ago

Incorrect; a curved line is a 1-dimensional space embedded in a higher dimensional space. There's still only one dimension of freedom on that line.

lucasjung3• 15 years ago

You are correct, but when you look at it this way, Wolf 3D was actually 2D: you couldn't move up or down.

If, instead of defining the number of dimensions according to the degrees of freedom in movement, we instead define them according to the visual appearance of the space in which the game is played, then Wolf 3D was 3D, this game is 1D, and a game with more than 1 pixel would be 2D.

eps2• 15 years ago

> Wolf 3D was actually 2D

And Doom was 2.5D - you could be at different heights, but could never be at the same x-y at two different z.

drungli2• 15 years ago

I wish I didn't have daltonism.

kbutler• 15 years ago

daltonism: red-green color blindness

drungli2• 15 years ago

I see you are not Daltonic at all... good to know

intended• 15 years ago

Isn't this some weird sort of Turing machine?

EDIT: also isn't it 2d, seeing as it has to include the dimension of time?

bnegreve2• 15 years ago

Well then Wolfenstein3D should be Wolfenstein4D

EDIT : I would say the number of dimensions is roughly the number of coordinates you need to store the position of a sprit in the game. (In this sens, Wolf3D is not real 3D since the third dimension (up-down) is just "emulated".)

hackermom• 15 years ago

I look forward to playing this on my 800XL.

d35m4dr32• 15 years ago

this is not 1d it is obviously 2d because it has a x and a y coordinate (1px * 300px), why call it 1d ?...i dont get it! maybe someone can explane that.

TechNewb• 15 years ago

The Y coordinate is constant, thus giving a 1D feel. But yes, technically speaking, it's still a 2D game, with 1D movement.

d35m4dr32• 15 years ago

ok, got it!

benhoyt• 15 years ago

I've just finished reading Flatland by Edwin Abbott, a really good read in which a Square from Flatland (a 2-D land) gets pulled up into Spaceland (3-D land) and then down into Lineland (1-D land). This is Wolfenstein in Lineland.

colanderman• 15 years ago

Why CTRL for shoot? It doesn't work in my browser for who knows what number of reasons, rendering the game unplayable. Games running on unknown hardware should stick to common keys which can be expected to work/exist.

rkowalick• 15 years ago

I imagine CTRL was chosen for historical reasons; it was the fire key on the original game.

JoeAltmaier• 15 years ago

Very cool

A buddy in college updated the old Trek73 game with a 3d version. It was colossally confusing to play. In response I wrote Trek1D which was played very like this game. My universe had stars, which had to be gotten around by firing up the warp engines and entering the 2nd dimension!

Killah911• 15 years ago

Freekin' Genius! I think this can be used as a relaxation exercise. Low input, low stress gaming. Only wish the whole screen didn't go read when you died. What's even more interesting is that I started imagining the bad guys after a little while.... hmm, are you sure it's 1-D, I'd argue it was 1Di.

Wolfenstein 1D

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