By Kieron Gillen on June 28th, 2010 at 11:24 pm.
Continuing my march through the tips folder, I hit upon Nir Gooday – and his brother’s – game. It’s Minesweeper. In 3D. It’s 3D Minesweeper. Which is the sort of thing which strikes you as totally pointless… but then you realise there’s a spark of genius here. There’s something oddly compulsive of taking that step. I mean, it’s become such a social staple that we don’t even think about of its name any more. Minesweeper. A game about stepping on mines, and actually physically doing it actually provokes a tiny shiver of anticipation. Alas, it’s an idea whose execution sells itself short – it demands bangs and whistles one goes off, the full on explosion and shaker-speaking noise. Add that, Nir, and you’re away. Make it turn-off-able for the wimps. Play here. There’s also a facebook app version, if that’s your sort of thing.
29/06/2010 at 00:18 Nyst says:
I don’t have facebook (*obvious joke comparing facebook itself to a minefield here*). Is this available anywhere else?
Also, facebook really hates my ‘back’ button it would seem.
29/06/2010 at 00:33 Springy says:
Maybe Kieron edited it in after you posted, but the link’s at the top:
http://orenyomtov.com/first-person-minesweeper-3d.html
29/06/2010 at 01:00 Kieron Gillen says:
I didn’t, but I normally backload a link as well as frontloading one, so it’s easily missed. tweaked.
KG
29/06/2010 at 12:20 Nyst says:
Thank you.
29/06/2010 at 00:29 Morti says:
add some decent physics behind it and 2-4 player versus and this could be -awesome-
E.g: the player who plants the most flags correctly wins. Both players can throw stones at each other’s tiles to try and explode a mine from a distance, thus killing the oponent.
Man… competitive minesweeper.
29/06/2010 at 00:30 Jimbo says:
But what if we get an eight?
29/06/2010 at 09:03 Rob says:
How would you get there?
29/06/2010 at 09:58 Harley Turan says:
Jump.
29/06/2010 at 00:56 Shazbut says:
It’s exactly what Kieron said. You think it’s totally pointless and then you play it and suddenly “God, the potential”.
I mean imagine if there was a real atmosphere. Ambient sounds, like the waves, all creating that sense of foreboding. Very quiet. You step on a mine and suddenly there’s a defeaning boom and you get shot into the air and blood flies everywhere. Surely that’s the reason you’d bother to make a 3D version of this game.
Someone should make this as a Crysis mod.
29/06/2010 at 05:17 Jugglenaut says:
@Shazbut I would buy Crysis just to play the mod.
29/06/2010 at 14:26 phlebas says:
Better: You step forward and hear a CLICK. You know the game’s over now, but nothing happens until you move.
29/06/2010 at 06:30 Nikica says:
Reminds me of that video from CollegeHumor or something like that.
Internet people, go find it!
29/06/2010 at 13:37 radomaj says:
Here you go, lazyman:
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1770138
29/06/2010 at 07:56 Grape Flavor says:
Sure, you can simply toil away flagging mines and uncovering spaces. But did you ever think to escape the dunes, trek across the seemingly endless plain, and plunge yourself into the black abyss as the known world shoots into nothingness above you?
You gotta think outside the box!
29/06/2010 at 08:11 aruwen says:
hm, a colleague at university built a “real” 3D minesweeper, think a minesweeper in a huge cube – thats strange :)
29/06/2010 at 20:18 Five says:
How about a step further, a horrifying animation of your leg being blown off and then a donate link to an anti-mine charity?