Lobby 4D

Lobby 4D is an online game where you can hang out with your friends in a 4D space, and look at some of the cool shapes and scenes scattered around the map. I call it a "game", but it's more of a social app I guess? That's not the right word either. Anyway, even though it doesn't have any gameplay, I'll continue to refer to it as a game since that's the simplest.

Since there's a lot of people who took what Einstein said and applied it to mean "the fourth dimension is always time", and string theory nonsense like "the fifth dimension is across parallel universes, and the sixth is time inside those universes" or whatever it is, I suppose I should define 4D. "4D", in this context, means "a space in which you can find 4 lines that are all perfectly perpendicular to each other. It's impossible to find a fifth line that's perpendicular." In 3D, it's only possible to find 3 lines that are all perpendicular to each other. You can't find a fourth*.

*But just because 4D doesn't exist in our universe, and you might not understand or be able to visualize it, does NOT mean that it's not logically possible. And actually, it's very logically possible! It's super simple and never needs any "this doesn't actually make sense/isn't consistent, so we'll just pull it in this direction to make it work". It just works on its own. In other words: logic and geometry don't care where you're from, and it cares about 4D just as much as it cares about every other dimension.

I made this game using my very own renderer and a godot engine addon that I made with aaronfranke. https://github.com/aaronfranke This game is more of an experiment to see what it's like to make a real game with the addon, and I'm really happy with how it came out! Our addon is ready for making real fully fledged games! We'll release the addon someday.

Controls:

Fullscreen - F

Chat - Enter (or slash for commands)

Focus (narrows your 4D fov and slows your character) - Right Click

Ground view (in 4D, the ground is 3D, ground view shows all 3 dimensions of ground. analogous to volume view in 4D golf) - G

4D Look - Mouse + Left click

Wave arms around - 1

Look - Mouse

Move - WASDQE

Jump - Space

Run - Shift

I tried to make these controls as intuitive as possible. Also, there's commands in the game. Type "/help" for more. Also, all settings are accessed through the command line, and they are saved.

SORRY that this game is windows only!! I might be able to support mac in the future but I genuinely can't export to mac and linux despite the game being made in godot. It would take a while to explain but just trust me, if I would I could :(