3d Maze Question

Just brainstorming here since I'm stuck at work without Construct 2 but I'm trying to come up with a system to do a 3d maze. Kind of like an old 1980s first person dungeon crawler where you step forward or can turn 90 degrees.

Now I think this would be pretty easy if every piece of the maze was in its own layout and you simply set a command to move to the desired layout when moving. This would end up taking up a lot of layouts though and I have no idea if that would slow things down in the end. Any other ideas that could be easy to implement? I suppose some sort of array that changes the maze sprite would work too but might be a little complex.

Do you mean like in Wolfenstein 3D or the old-school brick maze screensaver for windows?

Man, that brick maze really brings me back.

But I mean something like

oh happy memories ...

I have an idea that should work - I will try to post some code in a couple of days time.

Sounds good to me. I think my method above would be the easiest route but I am not sure if using layouts is goon on the user end compared to making some sort of array to keep track of the player's X and Y coords and displaying the proper sprites.

I guess if I really wanted to I could just make it Myst style where you click around and move between prerendered backgrounds

I've seen this done on the forums before - just the other day in fact. I just can't find it at the moment.

Edit: found one:

copperlicht

I appreciate the find but I am afraid that is too advanced for what I'm looking for. I'm looking for something less smooth and more like an old pseudo 3d maze game from the 80s

You could use layers. You can then cross-fade your layers for transitions.

Not getting time to play anymore - but have a quick look at maze blocks

all it does is use sprites - and at the moment it just displays random one to represent a maze type of view, there is no movement or any interaction.

Anyway it might be one way to go ? Probably better to remove all the empty space ...

See this thread and the examples by rojohound