CalinFounder, Fractal Games · Founder of Fractal Games

Can you reach the edge of the universe?

26 Apr 2025 · 1 min

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In this short video, the creator showcases a first‑person shooter level that appears boundless. The player moves forward and, after traversing the environment, returns to the same pyramid structure regardless of direction, demonstrating an infinitely repeating world with no visible boundaries. The narrator frames the demo as an answer to the question “What happens if you reach the edge of the universe?” and explains that the level loops forever, preventing any brick‑wall limit. The clip serves both as a gameplay demonstration and a conceptual illustration of how game designers can simulate an endless universe through looping geometry.

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What happens if you get to the edge of the universe? Will you hit a brick wall where you can't go any further? All games have boundaries, even open world games. But what about my game? So this is my game. I'm just gonna go forward. It's a first person shooter. Just going forward. And lo and behold, I'm back to the same pyramid. What the hell's going on here? Let's try that again. Do do do do do do do. And okay, we're back to the same place. So you can go in any direction and you're always going to come back to where you started. Going this way, I get to the pyramid again. I go this way, same pyramid. So this is a level that has no boundaries, which means that it repeats infinitely in all directions, and you never get to a place where you hit the brick wall at the end of the universe. It just keeps going and going and looping forever.