How to walk through walls using the 4th Dimension [Miegakure: a 4D game]

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A gameplay demo of Miegakure, a long-in-development 4D puzzle platformer in which the player shifts between slices of a fourth spatial dimension to walk through walls. It shows how the world looks and changes as the 4D rotation happens.

HN people hold it up as the most intuitive look at how a 4D world could be played, and wait years for the game's release.

“Miegakure is a not-yet-released 4D puzzle platformer. Think Flatland but as a 4D video game.”
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7 comments from Hacker News

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@danbruc2026 · in “4D Doom”
Now waiting since 16 years for the release of Miegakure [1][2][3]. [1] link [2] ▶ this video [3] link
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@zcw1002022 · in “Visualizing Large Trees Using the Hyperbolic Browser (2021) [video]”
That reminds me of a similar game, Miegakure. Not hyperbolic but 4D. It looks sooo cool ▶ this video
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@rinesh2015 · in “How to walk through walls using the 4th Dimension[Miegakure:4D platforming game]”
Submitted the video to Hacker News.
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@garaetjjte2017 · in “Automatic Mapping of NES Games with Mappy”
Aren't 3D games already 2D, as they are just projecting 3D world onto 2D plane? Alternatively, taking 2D intersection of 3D world would lead to something like 2D/3D mode of Miegakure: ▶ this video
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@Pulcinella2017 · in “The World of Miegakure”
For those wondering, Miegakure is a not-yet-released 4D puzzle platformer. Think Flatland but as a 4D video game. ▶ this video
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@p1esk2015 · in “Aphantasia: A life without mental images”
The test in the article was extremely easy for me, I guess I can visualize better than most people (I had no idea some people have trouble with that). It's funny, because I've considered myself to be an "auditory" person. Something I tried to visualize recently, and found quite challenging, was trying to remember this video: ▶ this video I watched it a couple of years ago, and last night I replayed it in my head, but with great difficulty.
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@tomerico2014 · in “How to walk through walls using the 4th dimension [video]”
The plane exists - it is passing through the character body (perpendicular to the ground) and parallel to the desert, grass border in the example video. You can see when the 4D rotation occurs there, that in that plane, everything stays constant (e.g. rocks stay there, trees, etc.) You just look at the objects from different angles as it rotates. Edit: Link to the relevant point in the video - ▶ this video
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