FPS? How About an FPP?

           One of my favorite things to do in my free time is find new optical illusions that I have not seen before. I do not think that anyone can say that they have not seen the optical illusion of the two different lines that look like different lengths, but are in reality the same, or something like it. This is a link to it for those who really have not. I am sure that many of us have always wanted to waste a trip to see the Leaning Tower of Pisa just so we could do something done multiple times before, such as leaning on the tower or trying to hold it up. This video shows a game that plays upon this concept termed “forced perspective” which is pretty fascinating for me.

            The possibilities here are fairly large for the gaming world, or so I think. It could be a continuation in the Portal series, or this game would be fun in itself. As long as the visuals are upgraded and the graphics are improved, this could easily become a top seller. Although this is first built for a computer, it could easily be reprogrammed into something for more popular gaming systems, like the Xbox or PlayStation. I can see multiple parents, and me eventually, buying this for their kids to help with education and to explain the concept of perspective, which is a fairly hard concept to teach.

            This game reminded me of one thing in particular, Alice in Wonderland. The perspectives in both of them are so far from the normal that it makes the game extremely fun to play or watch. One of my favorite scenes in this is the portals. It allows the player to change sizes and see things from a different point of view, which brings up an important lesson. This game also has an underlying theme to problem solving in real life, which is if you get stuck doing something and it continuously fails, well maybe it is time to try it from a different perspective. As this game has multiple ways of solving each level, although some may be better or more efficient than the other, it shows that there can be multiple ways to do something, and so unless it is officially proven that one way is better than the other, a person should not dogmatically tell the other that his or her idea is inferior, because nobody likes those kinds of people.