The Geomorph Dungeon Cube Project Continues

[Other Geomorph Dungeon Cube posts]

I went to thrift store today. Didn't find any Scrabble.  But, I did find some 1.5" square blocks. Ten for $.99. Enough for a 2x2 cube.  And when I find more blocks I can reuse those as the corners of a 3x3 cube.

I can use the cubes as is. 2x2 seems to stay together fairly well and it's easy to rotate four blocks.  I'd like to drill holes and add magnets to the inner faces so they stuck together.  Think that would be needed for a 3x3.  Wonder if I have the skill, I certainly lack the drill press/router that would make it easy. [Note: on my skill. Middle school shop class, I picked the very most easiest project.  A box, to hold magazines (Dragon's actually).  When I set it down on teachers desk to be graded it split at the seems and fell apart.]

Your dungeons will be assimilated! 

This is an interesting project.  Due to nature of 2x2 Rubik's Cubes three maps will always be adjacent and it's worth some consideration in choosing the maps and alignments. For instance I put all the natural cave tiles on two cubes.


Next up, besides shellac, is the keyed Dungeon of Geometric Doom and rules on when/why cube rotates!

Geomorph Cube Dungeon

[Follow up to my Dungeon Geomorph Cube and Slidy Puzzles post.]

I created a little proof of concept for a 2x2 Geomorph Cube Dungeon. Rubik's cubes are more complex than I originally thought.  It still lacks some tile rotations, [actually it's kind of screwed up].  I don't think I have enough SAN to code a 3x3 cube.  You can download the code and geomorphs to run it locally and/or mess with it.

It's sort of a pain to mentally translate the cross projection to a cube and I don't DM with computer.  So, I'm less inclined to finish/prettify the above proof of concept, I think... Would like to find large Rubik's cube and actually build one! Cause that would be rad and something I could actually use in game and totally flippin awesome to laugh maniacally as I rotated it.  But, the largest cube I've found has approx 1" faces, which is damn small for these geomorphs.  I have no idea how to build my own Rubik's or working facsimile.  Or rather, I know how, just not how to limited by my poor mechanical / shop skills.


Thanks to Risus Monkey for letting me use their geomorphs. And thanks to mthomas768 for remembering what movie, The Cube, I was thinking of.  And Huge Thanks to Grim and their blog Postapocapost for coming up with this awesome idea to begin with.

Dungeon Geomorph Cube and Slidy Puzzles.

If you've only made one post so far this year make it a quality one!

Idea is to make a mini dungeon using geomorphs placed on the faces of a Rubik's Cube.  When characters think they know where they're at or are about to make it out you spin the Rubik's cube and screw'm (or if you're a wuss DM you could make it a fair and logical large scale puzzle).  Like that bad Sci-Fi channel movie I saw once and don't want to remember name of.

Or, less ambitious make the geomorphs into a slidy puzzle.  Just print out 8, 15, 24, ... arrange in cube.  Maybe with bluetac or magnets and slide them around. 

Rubik's Cube: 9 geomorphs, 6 sides to a cube that is 54 geomorphs.  Hmmmm, where oh where can I get 54 square, smallish geomorphs. If only someone had a Geomorph Mapping Project and had produced like a bazillion awesome hand drawn geomorphs.

At first I was gonna do six screen grabs of Rob Lang's map generator, but it hasn't been updated and only has the first 30 geomorphs. If I go to trouble of doing this might as well do it up right!

Speaking of which I should physically make this, like in RL 3d.  I need a Giant Rubik's Cube.  Er, that's too giant how about Large Rubik's Cube, google be failing me!!  Did you know Rubik sells DIY Rubik Cube with Lube? I didn't, but it too small.  Come on, Internet, wtf?  Ah, found some 10cm cubes on ebay... would make maps about 1" sq.  Flippin tiny, but maybe usable.  Gonna hold off on RL 3d, maybe my wonderful readers will find something better, hint, hint ;)

Downloading 54 maps latter...  TBC