1. Final Major
Project
Because my Final Major Project is mainly directed at
mazes, I began looking into traditional hedge mazes
that already exist and I also looked at 3D models of
mazes includes digital and ones made out of Lego.
The Maze Adventure
2. Hampton Court Maze
• This maze is located in the United
Kingdom (UK), East Molesey,
Surrey.
• This hedge maze was planted out
between the years of 1689 and
1695 by two maze designers
George London and Henry Wise
for William III of Orange at
Hampton Court Palace. The maze
covers around 60 acres.
• The reason I chose this maze was
because even though its on a small
scale it’s a very complex maze as
most people who enter it use the
“hand on wall” method, also when
people enter the maze to the right
the maze is a straight dead end, if I
implied this into my maze it will
make the maze simple but
complex.
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4. Longleat maze
• This maze is located in the United
Kingdom (UK), Warminster,
Wiltshire.
• The 3D Maze was laid out in 1975
by professional maze designer,
Greg Bright. The maze covers
around 1.48 acres.
• The reason I chose this traditional
hedge maze was because during
the maze you have stairs that help
you get one place to the next by
going over the maze, if I implied
this to my maze it would give the
player an advantage to see where
the best way to go through the map
is.
• I also chose this map due to the
intricate lay out design of this map,
this would confuse the player by
the dead ends during the maze.
5. Imprint Maze
• This maze is located in the
United Kingdom
(UK),Gloucester
• The 3D hedge maze was laid
out in 1975 by a hedge maze
designer called Randoll Coate.
The overall outline of the
maze was of a giant footprint
57 m long by 29 m wide.
• The reason I chose this maze
was because of the intricate
layout of the imprint as the
maze is long there are lots of
complex turns and dead ends.
6. I looked into 3D mazes to see how they looked in a
POV or how they looked in a top down view of the
map, these maps will help me on how to structure
the maze and how it will look.
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8. I started to look into mazes that people have
created by using Lego blocks, I looked into these
because they can help me give ideas on how
mazes are structured.
9. I started looking at digital and real life
doors also looked at the door from
“Harry Potter and The Chamber of
Secrets”, as I am thinking of placing a
door at the end of the map to make sure
the player finds the key to open the door.
10. I started to look into things I could have on
my map so I looked at chests which could
contain certain collectables to help proceed
to the next level. So I looked at both digital
and real life models of treasure chests.
11. Because I looked at chests that
will be placed throughout the map
I might also imply placing keys
around the map to open these
chests. So I began by looking at
both 3D digital keys and different
styles of keys
12. M.C. Echer
I chose to look at a artist who is called M.C. Echer, he based his art
work around illusions, I was drew into to looking at his work as its
like being in a maze, an maze can give off somewhat of an illusion
while walking through the maze, this is what I like about his work,
for example one of his works called “Relativity” (one at the bottom
left of the screen) I do like because the illusion of a person going up
and then seeing the person above them but upside down is a top
illusion.
14. I started to look in to films that include mazes the first film I looked into was “Harry
Potter and The Goblet Of Fire” as near the end of the film the last challenge of the
event is to find the “Goblet of Fire” which located somewhere inside of a maze. As
my FMP is about mazes I thought it was appropriate to look at certain screenshots to
see how a maze is structured and the depth of the maze.
15. I also started to look into Greek mythology, so I looked into legend of the minotaur and also the film called the
„minotaur‟. The legend of the minotaur is about a monster with a head of a bull and a body of a human which
lived in a labyrinth where it was fed human sacrifices to surpass its hunger needs.
