One Maze - Many designs - experiment #17

This is a continuation of my maze design experiments. Read about it in post #1, One Maze - Many designs, and so on with a new post every Friday.

The original maze:

Simple Maze

I used Inkscape to expand on what I did last week. What if I expanded and reduced the maze in layers, but instead of centering it I did that from a point of screen ? So the expansion is essentially off-center from the object.

  • The first maze I use a point off the page to the East/Right to do the expansion from, making the maze layers on the left greater then those on the right.

  • The second maze I used a point NE from the center of the page, giving the lower left walls emphasis during the expansion.

  • The third maze I did the same but changed the layer colors to greys as I went.

  • The fourth maze I reduced the layers instead of expanding and again used greys.

  • The fifth maze I made each layer offset slightly to the bottom of the page (South).

Nothing each shattering here, but It gives the expansion/minimizing more interest when you change the focal point of the job.

Maze and Labyrinth News - May 2026

It is that time again. Time for maze and labyrinth news from the past month. So this makes a full year of news posts. I like how they are turning out. It makes me seek out news and gives me a location to write about more things ! You can find all the past news posts in the footer below.

  • Circulation - An upcoming maze game

There are plenty of maze games out there, but this one might be the most interesting looking. You play by moving a ball through a mechanical maze that looks futuristic, avoiding traps, pitfalls to reach the goal. Here is the Steam page for the upcoming game. Developed by Oleg Klaus, this is a game I will be watching.

  • Minos, a maze game, launched

Does this remind anyone else of the old arcade game Gauntlet ? I was addicted to that game. In this game you play as the Minotaur ! Check out the video below and the Steam game page for more details. Another cool game this month !

  • I did a mini-project to add more Indian name mazes

So I currently have 3 Indian roommates. That, and the fact that I started watching a bunch of Bollywood movies inspired me to research and create more Indian names for the Name maze section of the website. I found a list of the top 1,000 Indian names and had already made 132 of them (mostly the top names). I decided to fill-in any top name I had not yet made into a maze, then add some similar variations (if you make a maze of Chand, you might as well make Chanda and Chandan). In the end I added 135 new popular Indian names, more than doubling my total !

  • Coachella featured a maze installation this year

The Coachella festival is a cultural event every year (or at least it used to be, is it still ?), and this year artist Sabine Marcelis created an inflatable Maze installation on the grounds to provide shade. The sunset colored maze includes curved places to sit and you can read more about it in this article.

  • A 3D puzzle maze game that rotates like a Rubik’s Cube

This interesting clear 3D maze game caught my attention. I wonder how difficult it is ? I might need to buy one of these. Comes in 5 colors. There are multiple versions when I open the link, most of them less expensive than this one !

Large Labyrinth 3D Maze Cube
 

Some news is evergreen and can be found in past monthly news posts:

June 2025, July 2025, August 2025, September 2025, October 2025, November 2025, December 2025, January 2026, February 2026, March 2026 and April 2026.