Show HN: Sokyokuban, a puzzle game in a non-Euclidian world (opens in new tab)

I have written a quite detailed explanation of this here: http://roguetemple.com/z/hyper/dev.php

There is a teensy explanation on the about page: https://sokyokuban.com/#about

I'm sure the authors would also be more than happy to answer that question.

https://www.redblobgames.com/grids/hexagons/ is the goto resource for this, at least for hexagons

One of my favourite games of all time is called Knossu and is also non-Euclidian (edit: this is wrong, see comment below), although it takes a very different approach to confusing the player. The author, Jonathan Whiting, is probably best known for his article "Why I Write Games In C" around here

It seems like the best games throw you in with no context, and let you explore their consistent but mysterious mechanics and worlds

1. https://jonathanwhiting.com/games/knossu/

2. https://jonathanwhiting.com/writing/blog/games_in_c/

i guess it looks like a sphere but it's hyperbolic space and the opposite "direction" of curving compared to a sphere. But I dig what you're saying, like.. maybe allow us to drag our center of projection around so we can get a sense for the space.

Wow, I haven't seen anyone reference Stumble Upon in a very long time.

I'm going to check this out.

Of course!

Clicking and keyboard work on the computer, and tapping and swiping works on touch devices. I was hoping this would be clear enough since I don't want to take up people's time with tutorials. Maybe we can add a separate "help" button or add this to the about page?

The first one of these videos is not about non-Euclidean geometry, though.

There are many cool 2D and 3D non-Euclidean games already existing and several cool new projects in development, see: https://medium.com/@ZenoRogue/non-euclidean-geometry-and-gam...

I'm not sure if this is the same issue but we've heard from tons of people that the "undo" button should be at the bottom in order to make it easier to reach using a phone one-handed. We've now made that change. If you're referring to something else, please elaborate :-)

Yes, we considered it, but I'm not sure if and when that'll happen. However, we also added PWA features [1], so you should be able to add it to your homescreen and it should work fine offline that way. But we're not experts on this stuff, so definitely let me know if you run into issues with this.

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

It's Z, the traditional undo key in Sokoban-likes. More specifically, the key where Z would physically be on a Qwerty keyboard, regardless of what keyboard layout you have actually selected. Same goes for [R]eset.

Was almost surprised that a little web game gets this right when many native apps don't. I just checked the last three Sokoban-likes I played (Stephen's Sausage Roll, Baba Is You, A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build) and they all follow the currently active layout. Which admittedly is way better than the really annoying games that memorise the layout that's selected when you launch them and have to be completely restarted if it wasn't the one you wanted.

Sound at least!