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Manifold Garden's latest trailer bests Antichamber as the most M.C. Escher-inspired video game I've seen. Set in a world where the player manipulates gravity on one of six axis, you decide how to navigate this omnidirectional world by tilting it around like a box."The original prototype was based on the M.C. Escher print Relativity and just involved changing gravity to walk on walls. The game is so much more than that now," developer William Chyr explained on the PlayStation Blog. "We've added a ton of new mechanics, and the game is now really about exploring architecture and consequences in a world where physics is turned upside down."
Manifold Garden also uses the old "screenwrap" idea where going to the right side of the screen makes you come out the left, only applies it to a 3D space. So if you drop a cube into the ether it will also fall from the sky.
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