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Antichamber: A reason to say 'non-euclidean'
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I follow the path all the way around till I fall in a hole I can't get out of =/
edit: I'm an idiot
Yea, but if you do it that way
and you're pulling cubes from WTF? and not using earlier ones under the forcefield
enough to make a block wall and then to make an elevator to get over the glass
Anywho, just finished it outside of finding purple cubes. Did enjoy the ending, if only because
after hours of square geometry- curves!
Visualante2
Member
RE: Over the edge Anyone get a crash when doing the
puzzle? Happened to me twice in a row now. Again another "puzzle" that doesn't supply you with cubes when you revisit making it a pain in the ass to get to. Late game is basically cube escort mission.
3/3 now. This time
volumetric cube
3/3 now. This time
I encased myself in a cube.
I'm pretty sure that's just an explanation of the tech behind the game, there are a few more rooms like that with the same sign on them and they explain various parts of the game's implementation (e.g. what a certain part of the game looks like in a level editor).
Going past Falling Forward I got through a chain of puzzles but
got to a door with a triplaser and apparently no way to keep it open. The room behind it looks empty, is that just a case of the game trolling players?
I haven't managed to pull Down The Rabbit Hole off yet...
4 hours on the Steam clock and the sign wall filled up.
Only the final room is marked with a big square, does that have two different ways of finishing or is that just never marked as completed because the game ends when you do it?
Visualante2
Member
I got a feeling if you speed run the game you get
another room past the final puzzle
The puzzle is very straightforward. Just
make a brick wall to stop you in midair.
Edit: oh you mean the puzzle after that? That's trickier but still not hard. Yes, it has a no-win condition. However it uses tricks you've already discovered.
Wok
Member
Ahah, I have "solved" this puzzle.
The developer said he wants to add content to that room. But the puzzles are the hardest in the game and that's why I'm doing them
Yup, that's the one.
[...]
The ONLY clue that could be relevant to that room is the sign you encounter immediately before it. It says,. And there are some pretty obvious connotations of what that could mean, if rumours of the dev wanting to patch in more content after the fact are true. It also makes sense if you consider theYou can't do everything yourselfdoor.UNDER CONSTRUCTION
God at this point I kind of just want to try and enable noclip to see if that room's just a cocktease or not.
EDIT:it totally is, fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck goddamnit.
This is also the answer which was made on Arqade, but is there a reference to confirm this room is a dead end?
Just did a quick start to finish run, had about 50 minutes left on the countdown clock after starting the game again but there was no difference in the ending.
Granted, I skipped the whole white city scene by throwing the ghost cube on the ground and using it as a step to jump over the railing, the goal of that sequence is right below the starting point.
In The Chase turn around and go back. There's one behind the door
I managed to get 6 hours out of it, with some secrets still not done, and I'm pretty sure I had a somewhat fast run. I rushed through and understood a few things ahead of time. I've seen people claim 11 hours.
Took me about 6 hours to get everything except the purple cubes, but I am pretty good with puzzles.
took me 8 hours, and I had to turn to the internet for help once
still got a few rooms with exits I need to find, and 10 more drawings.
fushi
Member
Wow, that's quite a lot. And those 6 hours were well spent, I assume? Nothing overly repetitive or anything?
I sound like a miser, I guess, but after paying full price for Thirty Flights of Loving I'm a bit wary on giving out money for experimental games.
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Deleted member 22576
Unconfirmed Member
Why isn't the witness out yet
I thought so. Some puzzles are a bit annoying, and if you return to 'earlier' puzzles with later equipment you can solve a lot of them the same way, but it's not as bad as many other puzzle games. It'll probably take more time if you try to play it in one sitting, you will need little breaks to let your mind process something.
bistromathics
facing a bright new dawn
I'm havin trouble with "red cross"? any hints? i tried brute forcing my way to the top but got
I beat the first room then fell back down somwehre while trying the second. But i still wanna beat red cross...i don't get it
stuck in a crazy room with the tag 'you cant do everything yourself' or something like that.
ctrl+shift+esc is your friend.
The process name is UDK.exe.
I think the steam in-game overlay is continuing but antichamber itself has shut down. I can't crash the in-game overlay without crashing steam either
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
So how are the puzzles in this game?
When I saw some footage of it I was kind of disappointed in how much it uses disappearing and reappearing floors/stairs/geometry, instead of using perspective in an interesting way. Does it have more of the latter?
When I saw some footage of it I was kind of disappointed in how much it uses disappearing and reappearing floors/stairs/geometry, instead of using perspective in an interesting way. Does it have more of the latter?
There's nothing like Echochrome in terms of perspective usage, but there's plenty of puzzles where what you're looking at and what you're not looking at (and when you're looking or not looking) matter in various ways.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Alright, I might consider it.
I doubt it. I've finished the game in 11 minutes and didn't notice anything. It is possible to (endgame spoilers)
escape the final area before you're locked into it, after placing the black cube, and you could feasibly run back to the start of that section (I got about 3/4 of the way there before I hit credits)
Nearly all of the puzzles are block manipulation. The non-euclidean stuff is mostly just navigating the open world, or using it to carry resources from one area to another.
Reading other posts, your enjoyment of the game might come from how quickly you're able to deduce properties in the mechanics. The game only tutorialises a few, minor things, and you're left on your own to work out how you can apply what you have to the problems you're given.
I've said it before in this thread, but Antichamber's puzzles and logic are very similar to that in QUBE. The puzzles and mechanics are completely different, but it's the same use of logic and appliance of untold mechanics that aide you in making progress.
EDIT - Oh, and it's nice to play an indie game made by an Australian developer. Fuck, Australia needs more people making games.
oh god what if antichamber is really just a meta-game-game to fez did anybody see any owls I think I saw some owls
no wait that was proteus
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Hmm, I do enjoy Qube a lot. There were some things that annoyed me, like how fucking physic-y it can get, but the puzzling in qube was pretty damn good.
You also have a good point. Gotta support the Aussie developers.
Bought anyway. I'll see how it goes.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Alright, so this is pretty fun, and I enjoy the look of it too, but goddamn what's with the terrible clip art for the hints? It clashes so terribly with the overall look of the game that I can't help but laugh.
It's funny because for a while those art icons were just stick figures. I think it's just a matter of programmer art. It's one thing to have some pretty shaders and primary colours, it's another thing to be able to draw. The drawings remind me of half of the submissions to reddit's /r/comics, where it's just the default photoshop brush and a crudely drawn dude.
/hypocrite
Wok
Member
The game is nowhere like TFoL.
The puzzle becomes a lot easier once you know that
the door is blue and you have to pull the cubes away from the lasers instead of blocking them.
XANDER CAGE
Member
I think his brother did the art or something.
I'm havin trouble with "red cross"? any hints? i tried brute forcing my way to the top but gotI beat the first room then fell back down somwehre while trying the second. But i still wanna beat red cross...i don't get itstuck in a crazy room with the tag 'you cant do everything yourself' or something like that.
Break the central block and give it a move order while the blocks are respawning. That tends to split them up.
So much this. Although the game explains most of it's concepts, it's done more implicitly. I think it's a great example of a puzzle game. But if you're not much into puzzles, I can understand you don't like the game very much.
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Deleted member 30609
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Just finished this. Easily one of my favourite games of the past few years.
I LOVE puzzle games, but some recent releases have proved to me that maybe I'm not as good at them as I thought (Corrypt, Jelly No Puzzle, Splice, Antichamber). Thus, I'm 7 hours in and still not done! But making several breakthroughs and piecing it all together, this game is immense, maybe one of the best puzzle games I've ever played.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
How big is the download? Steam only or is there a non-DRM option available?
Steam only, he said via twitter he's gonna put it up on the antichamber site "once the steam version is stable". Game clocks in at a bit over 600mb.
Wok
Member
I have finished the game in 6 hours and a half. Strangely, the game quits without warning after the credits.
I still have to explore the map a bit and complete the wall of in-game achievements.
My current wall of proverbs (spoiler, do not click):nine six proverbs left.
My current map (spoiler, do not click):eight five paths unexplored.
I still have to explore the map a bit and complete the wall of in-game achievements.
My current wall of proverbs (spoiler, do not click):
My current map (spoiler, do not click):
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
Alright, I love the puzzles and the progression of complexity in this game so far, but I swear that
is bullshit. I don't really remember the game teaching you about it at all.
Now that I have the
this game has gotten pretty awesome. Some of the puzzles are really fun, though I don't really finding the non-euclideanness all that compelling. Maybe I just hyped up the non euclidean aspect too much. Cube puzzles can be pretty compelling and fun.
creating a box outline with cubes so the middle will fill out
Now that I have the
yellow gun
Visualante2
Member
First time I did it by accident. I think there are a couple of puzzles that elude to it as a strategy, and there's at least one mural that reinforces it once you learned how.
I think the more you play, you begin to internalise what is a very weird set of logic. I think it can start to seem a little ordinary to your brain but if you had someone over your shoulder watching a random puzzle where you're stringing together all these ideas they'd be pretty confused.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I really don't remember any hints prior to the one which you really have to use it
other than the regenerating wall, which is stretching it as it is.
Managing resources
Wok
Member
This game is based on incouscious hints. This is why you don't remember any hint.
The Wizard
Member
I finished it after 7 hours and the map pretty close to 100% from what I can see, (still have 4 of those clip art drawings to track down.) Great game, I really enjoyed it. Also does anyone know what's up with those
or it it just a mystery?
purple cubes
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Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
I've finished the game, but come on, dude. Spoiler that. Half the fun is working this out for yourself.
RaySpencer
Member
I havent had crashes there yet, but I have been annoyed while trying to do it! I just dont understand how to do it I guess, haha.
The overlay is a separate process, should appear as GameOverlay32 or something.
Ventilaator
Banned
Place all of your cubes in positions that open a door.
On the other side of the door there's a hole to put cubes in
Antichamber.
On the other side of the door there's a hole to put cubes in
Antichamber.