Scholar Sauce | Classic JRPG World Maps aren't Spheres?!? #some3 @scholarsauce | Uploaded July 2023 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Classic Japanese Role-Playing Games (JRPG) are incredibly engaging to play and explore in. They almost always included a large world map that you would eventually get some kind of airship or plane to traverse. But those maps hid a dark secret: they were only pretending to be spheres. And no, they aren't flat planes either. They are actually shaped like a donut, or more precisely, a torus. This shape is pretty bizarre, but there are good reasons why early game developers chose to use a torus. In this video, come explore the strange geometry and topology of a classic JRPG toroidal world map and see why it was able to convince most gamers that the games actually occurred on spheres.
This video was submitted to the #some3 competition sponsored by @3blue1brown and @LeiosLabs.
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*Music*
_Elevators Need Rock Too_ by Spence
*Images*
_Blue Marble 2002_
Source: NASA Visible Earth: Blue Marble: Land Surface, Shallow Water, and Shaded Topography
Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Marble_2002.png
License: Public Domain
*Video Game Captures (Fair Use)*
_Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster_
Square Enix
_Final Fantasy VII_
Square Enix
_Final Fantasy VIII Remastered_
Square Enix
_Wild Arms_
Media Vision
Classic Japanese Role-Playing Games (JRPG) are incredibly engaging to play and explore in. They almost always included a large world map that you would eventually get some kind of airship or plane to traverse. But those maps hid a dark secret: they were only pretending to be spheres. And no, they aren't flat planes either. They are actually shaped like a donut, or more precisely, a torus. This shape is pretty bizarre, but there are good reasons why early game developers chose to use a torus. In this video, come explore the strange geometry and topology of a classic JRPG toroidal world map and see why it was able to convince most gamers that the games actually occurred on spheres.
This video was submitted to the #some3 competition sponsored by @3blue1brown and @LeiosLabs.
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*Music*
_Elevators Need Rock Too_ by Spence
*Images*
_Blue Marble 2002_
Source: NASA Visible Earth: Blue Marble: Land Surface, Shallow Water, and Shaded Topography
Link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Blue_Marble_2002.png
License: Public Domain
*Video Game Captures (Fair Use)*
_Final Fantasy VI Pixel Remaster_
Square Enix
_Final Fantasy VII_
Square Enix
_Final Fantasy VIII Remastered_
Square Enix
_Wild Arms_
Media Vision
