Dimensional shift

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Examples
Switching between perspectives – it’s the same life but a different way of looking at it. And sometimes the answer you need is right there in front of you if just look at things slightly differently.

To my mind these are games of split-focus, of attention, of finding calm in the face of tumult, mindfulness and determination to think differently in order to get through a situation.

There is something to these kind of games that makes you think in a way that you can actually feel your brain changing how it works – the same way that valve got usThinking with Portals.

In fact, I wonder now if playing Portal is the closest you can get to understanding ahypercube?

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Here are some reality bending games.

Continuity



Hitting space ‘pauses’ the main action game and pulls back to a calmer sliding puzzle game that will help you solve the internal platformer.

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Every time you lose a life/sanity, the game devolves down to a more basic type of interface, that also gives you a different view on the gameworld. There are points where you have to get really low in order to progress.

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