Penny Arcade posts interesting puzzle challenge

[Dannager]

Oh, dammit, Gabe.

 

[jbear]

Looks cool, but it's ripped from, at the very least, Resident Evil 5, which had a puzzle just like that. Nice set up though. I'd like to have the money and time to make something approaching that.

err... he actually says in his post that he was inspired by God of War, which if you've played, you'd know has several battles where you have to drag things around to make the sun reflect off the light of statues shields etc. to open a doorway to get to the next part of the game. So, he's pretty blatant about about the fact he's 'ripped' the idea and where he 'ripped' it from.

That takes absolutely NOTHING away from the fact he has applied that idea to an incredibly fun/cool/awesome encounter where the players actually have to find the right angles to direct light of an actual pen light and real mirrors in an absolutely magnificent 3d dungeon...

Why would anyone even think of snarkily saying... '' oh, yeah, but he stole the idea from a videa game..." ????

Now what I really wanted to say (before I read that last snarky comment) was:

Wow!

 

[Deuce Traveler]

As Raven mentioned, what's embarrassing is that Gabe is brand new to DnD... around a year of time playing and only 4E.

 

[OchreJelly]

I vaguely remember a puzzle like this from a Zelda game, but it could just be a fever dream on my part. That twitter pic is cool. Did he add cobwebs to his tiles?? Very clever.

 

[Gort]

Man, how video gamey.

Pshaw, maybe that would be cool if you like popular MMORPG World of Warcraft but it's not for me.

 

[Dannager]

Speaking of World of Warcraft: Penny Arcade - Garbled For Your Protection

I know a lot of people grumble about how WoW is supposedly a negative influence on D&D, but Gabe's game really makes me want to play D&D WoW-style. It just looks like a ton of fun.

 

[darjr]

Those are some really cool ideas. I've got to steal many of them.

 

[Uzzy]

err... he actually says in his post that he was inspired by God of War, which if you've played, you'd know has several battles where you have to drag things around to make the sun reflect off the light of statues shields etc. to open a doorway to get to the next part of the game. So, he's pretty blatant about about the fact he's 'ripped' the idea and where he 'ripped' it from.

That takes absolutely NOTHING away from the fact he has applied that idea to an incredibly fun/cool/awesome encounter where the players actually have to find the right angles to direct light of an actual pen light and real mirrors in an absolutely magnificent 3d dungeon...

Why would anyone even think of snarkily saying... '' oh, yeah, but he stole the idea from a videa game..." ????

Now what I really wanted to say (before I read that last snarky comment) was:

Wow!

I didn't mean to be snarky in my original post. My point was more along the lines that it's from a video game, which is no bad thing at all. I've done it plenty of times in my own games, be it interesting quest ideas, dialogue, puzzles or ideas for NPC's. I said I liked the set up, and wished I had the time and money to do something similar, but being a University Student, my money is going on more important things, like food.

The actual design, and heck, being willing to create the puzzle physically is an impressive thing.

 

[DragoonLance]

Honestly I'm not suprised he's taking from video games, I do the same thing. I've seen some very clever dungeon based puzzles in video games over the years, while sadly it seems like searching for D&D related ones only get you a Rube Goldberg TPK.

 

[darjr]

That's awesome and all, but when will he borrow from tee-ball?!?!