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The Deranged Mathematician

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Nathan Hannon

Jun 6

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Now I want to see a game played on a Klein bottle.
To do the concept justice, you would need to make orientation meaningful. Perhaps something like a puzzle-platformer where your character has asymmetric abilities, so that you have to return to the same location in the opposite orientation to make progress.

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Paisios Roper
Jun 6

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There's a version of snake by a grad student in Belgrade that is on the projective plane. It's not a Klein bottle but it's a non-orientable surface.
https://ubavic.rs/snake/snake.html

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Justin Veazey
Jun 6

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Well are you in luck! How do you feel about snakes?
https://thinkstrangethoughts.substack.com/p/snakes-on-a-projective-plane

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Senia Sheydvasser
Jun 6

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I love the fact that it clearly demonstrates the problem with using the projective plane as a map: you can see a second copy of the snake if you approach a particular pair of points!

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