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Have you considered making a maze that can not be solved by the follow-the-left-wall or follow-the-right-wall strategies?

I think it'd be fun to send anyone following one of those into an inescapable large loop of some kind.



Have you tried it? Because you're very likely to get stuck ;).

If you strictly follow a wall from the start (or any of the checkpoints), you'll find your way to the end. However, most walls are on loops. The style of maze I used is called a braid maze, and replaces all dead-ends with loops. (The maze algorithm considers a 2x2 square a loop though, while the renderer doesn't fill anything in the center, so those still look like dead ends.)


I did, I followed the right wall all the way (I think, unless I made a mistake).


It's possible, just uncommon! Congrats, you're uncommonly good at wall-following.


I think a cool upgrade would be to make what I did impossible.




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