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New 'Backrooms' Game Merges Quantum Mechanics With an Old-School Dungeon Crawler
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New 'Backrooms' Game Merges Quantum Mechanics With an Old-School Dungeon Crawler

Gizmodo·Tom Hawking·2 days ago
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Unless you’ve spent the last month hiding under a rock (or marooned in an endless maze of liminal spaces), you know that the Backrooms movie is huge. It’s so huge, in fact, that it’s all Backrooms everything on the internet at the moment, with a whole lot of people rushing to capitalize on the film’s popularity. One of the more intriguing projects piggybacking on the Backrooms phenomenon is a recently released online game called Quantum Backrooms . The title might sound like a Deepak Chopra cash-in, but the game isn’t just using the word “quantum” to sound cool and science-y—its levels were generated by an actual quantum computer at London-based company Moth Quantum, which describes itself as “the first and only consumer-facing quantum computing company.” The game experience is reminiscent of old dungeon crawlers like Eye of the Beholder or Dungeon Master . Your character’s movement is constrained to a grid—quantized, in fact—so you can only move forward in discrete steps and turn at 90º angles.…

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