Throwback Thursday: Massively Crushed

Throwback Thursday: Massively Crushed

Cracked

i love the pattern on this one, it looks like some kind of flooring! ...i don't think that's what i intended when i first made it, but that's how it looks now lol

this one looks nearly just as good on paper – not that i'm good at photographing these things, lol

y'know, flipping through my graph paper journal to get pics for these reminds me that i have a lot of good candidates for future mazes to digitize...

Roughshod

this one's a simple maze, but i really love the pattern and at some point i might do a bigger one like this! the underlying pattern here is an alternate take on a diagonal maze – so maybe i could adapt one of my existing diagonal mazes to match...

"op art"! i finally remembered, the term for my mazes is op art. art made from geometric lines and shapes that create optical illusions, distortions, movement, perspective...

considering that's what my inspirations at megamazes called it too, i think i should start tagging it as such. i'll go back and re-tag them when i get the opportunity

i'm a big fan of art that doubles as function, like op art mazes, voxel art stretchmo levels, etc. it gives a reason to explore the art from every angle and discover new perspectives

of course that's related to why i like video games so much, hehe

Second Temple | Gravitas (Mari0)

Speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out! The temple's power may hinder your vertical momentum, but you can still take advantage of horizontal boosts. Even as it continues to teach the player, the puzzle-solving really starts to ratchet up here…

too big for paper... or so i thought! turns out it just *barely* fits in my isometric notebook 💖 this is the first time i've ever DE-digitized a maze!

(final sketch on the left, sketch with underlying grid lines on the right. the shadow is from the binding, it goes right up to the edge!)

Astral Flex

one of the first mazes i did fully digital without sketching it out first – it's just too big for paper! go from one dot to the other and back again along a different path.