Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

91: Finding Poetry in Geometry with Mahdi Bahrami (Tandis)

May 27, 2022

01:16:21

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Tondis Is an Exploration of Three D and of Math and and Motty

01:47

The Playfulness of Mathematical Programming

04:10

The Right Answer Is in Your Hands

01:35

Introduction

2min

Tondis - A Three D Puzzle Game About Exploring Geometric Forms

1min

Touching Your Nose Gameatol

2min

The New Movie That Cano Cammatrick Transformations

2min

Is It Part of Your Calling as a Designer?

2min

The Mathon Screen

2min

A Game Without Math - Is This Really a Game?

2min

Can We Express Our Feelings Through Shapes?

2min

I Hadto Sa Ilang and Garei, You Know, the Beauty of It.

3min

10.

Prototyping a Game Engine or Something Like That?

2min

11.

Is Your Hit Rate Super Hih?

2min

12.

Is There a Difference Between Islamic Art and Cleric Art?

3min

13.

Angara

2min

14.

Is There a Role for Play Testing in Your Process?

2min

15.

The Hint System in Intandis

2min

16.

Play Testing

2min

17.

How Do You Write the Right Words in the Poem?

2min

18.

Did You Ever Consider Engaging With the Player When They Are Doing the Wrong Thing?

3min

19.

I've Never Played a Game Before, but I Didn't Have a Sense of It.

2min

20.

Yu, Much Er, Simpler Than Tangis

2min

21.

Is There a Singularity at the Poles of the Earth?

2min

22.

How Quickly Did You Come to the Four Hundred Degree Rotation?

2min

23.

Doom and Quake - A Thousand Years of Computer Graphics

2min

24.

Isn't Doom Three D?

2min

25.

Tondis Is an Exploration of Three D and of Math and and Motty

2min

26.

The Right Answer Is in Your Hands

2min

27.

Is There a Wrong Answer?

3min

28.

I Feel Like I'm Seeing the Top of the Iceberg

2min

29.

The Playfulness of Mathematical Programming

4min

30.

I Love Puzzle Games That Work in This Kind of Headspace

2min

31.

I'm So Happy You're Here. Same. Thank You.

2min

32.

How to Make a Puzzle Game Work?

1min

33.

Game Development in Iron City

2min

34.

I've Been There. And I'll Be Able to See You in Person

2min

35.

I'll Come Back in as the Commander, Right?

4min

36.

I'm Glad to Be Back. Thanks for Listening to My Own Show.

2min

Mahdi Bahrami joins us to discuss his beautiful, mind-bending new puzzle game Tandis. We discuss teaching complex geometry concepts without any numbers, poetry as playtesting, and drawing a line through Mahdi's math-inspired oeuvre.

Show notes:

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