27th September 2008, 12:15 PM
Um, the 3rd panel is a perfectly possible shape, it just isn't the original 3D shape.
No I'm not saying that. Yes I understand it was partially inspired by escher. That's irrelevent. The idea is you can ROTATE the level into different shapes. That's the joke. Escher never rotated a shape into another shape in real time like that and had a little guy navigate a level entirely via real time perspective shifting.
I'm not saying the game wasn't inspired by escher, and I know that the penny arcade guys know about him. I'm saying the comic is ABOUT the game, and it's funnier if you know about the game they are referencing because the joke makes a lot more sense.
No I'm not saying that. Yes I understand it was partially inspired by escher. That's irrelevent. The idea is you can ROTATE the level into different shapes. That's the joke. Escher never rotated a shape into another shape in real time like that and had a little guy navigate a level entirely via real time perspective shifting.
I'm not saying the game wasn't inspired by escher, and I know that the penny arcade guys know about him. I'm saying the comic is ABOUT the game, and it's funnier if you know about the game they are referencing because the joke makes a lot more sense.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)