This Will Make Your Head Hurt and Blow Your Mind Away: levelHead

by Samuel Febres

I don’t even know how to explain this, but it’s a game that you play with cubes.  According to the creator, it’s a ‘spatial memory game.’ The game is called levelHead.

Here’s a bit more of a description from the creator’s site. His name is Julian Oliver.

levelHead uses a hand-held solid-plastic cube as its only interface. On-screen it appears each face of the cube contains a little room, each of which are logically connected by doors.

In one of these rooms is a character. By tilting the cube the player directs this character from room to room in an effort to find the exit.

Some doors lead nowhere and will send the character back to the room they started in, a trick designed to challenge the player’s spatial memory. Which doors belong to which rooms?

There are three cubes (levels) in total, each of which are connected by a single door. Players have the goal of moving the character from room to room, cube to cube in an attempt to find the final exit door of all three cubes. If this door is found the character will appear to leave the cube, walk across the table surface and vanish.. The game then begins again.

Alright, makes sense right? Now to see it in action, watch the video below.


levelHead v1.0, 3 cube speed-run (spoiler!) from Julian Oliver on Vimeo.

Amazing, yes?