Piratecat's dungeon design: fun with tesseracts!

Mordane76 · Feb 29, 2004

Cube never specifically stated that it was a tesseract, but it might as well have been. In Cube, each room was more or less a death trap; the rooms where all part of a gigantic cube that cycled where each individual room was in relation to the true exit from the total cube. The cube had an astronomical number of rooms (by the participants' calculations), and one needed a degree in advanced algorithms (or had to a be numbers savant) to figure out the cycling time and pattern of the Cube to escape it.

Hypercube... no idea, though.

Cube could make an interesting one-shot dungeon, particularly for a d20 Modern game, as long as the people playing it hadn't seen or heard about the movie. Such a module would mostly be a meat-grinder, though... but it might be fun to DM if all the players knew up front that they were going to die in the most special-effectsy sort of ways possible.

Allanon · Feb 29, 2004

Piratecat said:
Are the iimages now visible?

Here's an interesting page on mathematical tesseracts and other 4d shapes.

Yes the images are now visible, and they make visualising it all a lot easier

Matafuego · Feb 29, 2004

Thanks a lot!!
I think I'll find some use for this pretty soon

DonAdam · Feb 29, 2004

I'm going to be running a puzzle-heavy, magic-heavy dungeon soon; this will see use.

Many thanks.

alsih2o · Feb 29, 2004

it dudn't get any better than this.

tarchon · Feb 29, 2004

They work great as long as you don't have any 4-dwarves in the party always going "Do I detect a hyper-sloping tunnel?"

Salvador Dali does hypercubes.

Changed your image to a link, Tarchon. ~ PCat

Kesh · Feb 29, 2004

Cube was a great movie. Haven't seen Hypercube though.

Though I'm sure PKitty could use it to take this tesseract dungeon to whole new levels.

RingXero · Feb 29, 2004

The movie 'Cube' didn't have a tesseract, it had just a large collection of cube rooms that mechanically moved around, the whole thing formed a cube itself that was within a larger cube, the larger cube was just large enough for a room cube to exist and move around the cube of rooms. There was one extra cube that acted as the bridge between the cube of rooms and the exit door that was on the side of the larger cube, it was only there at the start and end of the cycle of movement, once every few days. a lot of the rooms were trapped.

Cube 2: Hypercube, was a form of a tesseract, and as portrayed in the movie, had an almost infinite number of rooms, the group gets placed within one room and then that room 'unfolds' into an almost infinite number, then it starts to collapse into itself again. Traps were present as well, no numbers to help out though.

I liked Cube, not as much Hypercube.

RX

Psionicist · Feb 29, 2004

I have seen both Cube and Hypercube, and although the sequel isn't as good as the the original I can recommend it if you liked the first movie because of the cubes and not because it was different.

Anyhow, nice cubes!