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Developer Frictional Games has announced a new 'Safe Mode' for 2015's Soma, intended to keep the title's horror atmosphere while removing the risk of in-game death.
Much like previous player-created mods like 'Wuss Mode,' Safe Mode will leave the game's monsters and puzzles intact. But while the Wuss Mode mod simply made players immune to damage, the official Safe Mode will also change the in-game monsters' behavior while protecting players from harm.
'Our goal has been for Safe Mode to not feel like a cheat, but for it to be a genuine way of experiencing the game,' the developers wrote in an announcement. 'So we’ve considered what each creature should be doing, given their appearance, sound, and voice.'
In Safe Mode, players will no longer have to sneak past enemies stealthily, but 'monsters might sound and act more threatening if they spot you, so there is still an incentive to being careful.' Players will now be able to explore without a 'fear of failure,' Frictional write, and see the game's environments without risk.
Advertisement In a way, this isn't a huge change for Soma's impact. Ars reviewer Steven Strom noted that the game's sense of existential dread is driven more by dialogue and story arcs than jump scares. 'Death isn't much of a punishment here,' Strom wrote. 'The first one or two times you get caught in a section, you'll simply pick up where you last fell.'Or, as Frictional puts it, 'the overall atmosphere that gets to you in a horror game—and, above all, the central themes... will still [leave] plenty to be scared of.'
Frictional's announcement comes two months after Ubisoft announced that Assassin's Creed: Origins would be getting its own combat-free Discovery Tour mode early next year, letting players explore a detailed model of ancient Egypt as a 'living museum.' And Nintendo has been offering an optional 'Super Guide' to push players through difficult challenges in many games since 2009.As games have grown past their quarter-munching arcade roots, the penalty for in-game death in many games has gone from a game-stopping wall to mere temporary annoyance. Now, more companies seem to be realizing the value of letting players simply remove that annoyance entirely if they want. A Safe Mode might not make sense for every title, but for games about exploration of detailed environments, why not let everyone have the option to see that whole environment without risk?
Safe Mode will be added to the GOG and Steam versions of Soma today, as well as the newly released Xbox One version and the upcoming PS4 version.
The Soma cube is a solid dissection puzzle invented by Piet Hein in 1933[1] during a lecture on quantum mechanics conducted by Werner Heisenberg. Its name is alleged to be derived from the fictitious drug soma consumed as a pastime by the establishment in Aldous Huxley's dystopic novel Brave New World.[2]
Seven pieces made out of unit cubes must be assembled into a 3×3×3 cube. The pieces can also be used to make a variety of other 3D shapes.
The pieces of the Soma cube consist of all possible combinations of three or four unit cubes, joined at their faces, such that at least one inside corner is formed. There is one combination of three cubes that satisfies this condition, and six combinations of four cubes that satisfy this condition, of which two are mirror images of each other (see Chirality). Thus, 3 + (6 × 4) is 27, which is exactly the number of cells in a 3×3×3 cube.
The Soma cube was analyzed in detail by John Horton Conway in the September 1958 Mathematical Games column in Scientific American, and the book Winning Ways for your Mathematical Plays also contains a detailed analysis of the Soma cube problem.
There are 240 distinct solutions of the Soma cube puzzle, excluding rotations and reflections: these are easily generated by a simple recursivebacktracking search computer program similar to that used for the eight queens puzzle. Current world record for the fastest time to solve a soma cube is 2.93 seconds and was set by Krishnam Raju Gadiraju, India.[3]
Pieces[edit]
The seven Soma pieces are six polycubes of order four, and one of order three:
- Piece 1, or 'V'.
- Piece 2, or 'L': a row of three blocks with one added below the left side.
- Piece 3, or 'T': a row of three blocks with one added below the center.
- Piece 4, or 'Z': bent tetromino with block placed on outside of clockwise side.
- Piece 5, or 'A': unit cube placed on top of clockwise side. Chiral in 3D.
- Piece 6, or 'B': unit cube placed on top of anticlockwise side. Chiral in 3D.
- Piece 7, or 'P': unit cube placed on bend. Not chiral in 3D.[4]
Production[edit]
Piet Hein authorized a finely crafted rosewood version of the Soma cube manufactured by Theodor Skjøde Knudsen's company Skjøde Skjern (of Denmark). Beginning in about 1967, it was marketed in the U.S. for several years by the game manufacturer Parker Brothers. Plastic Soma cube sets were also commercially produced by Parker Brothers in several colors (blue, red, and orange) during the 1970s. The package for the Parker Brothers version claimed there were 1,105,920 possible solutions. This figure includes rotations and reflections of each solution as well as rotations of the individual pieces. The puzzle is currently sold as a logic game by ThinkFun (formerly Binary Arts) under the name Block by Block.
Solutions[edit]
Solving the Soma cube has been used as a task to measure individuals' performance and effort in a series of psychology experiments. In these experiments, test subjects are asked to solve a soma cube as many times as possible within a set period of time. For example, In 1969, Edward Deci, a Carnegie Mellon University graduate assistant at the time,[5] asked his research subjects to solve a soma cube under conditions with varying incentives in his dissertation work on intrinsic and extrinsic motivation establishing the social psychological theory of crowding out.
In each of the 240 solutions to the cube puzzle, there is only one place that the 'T' piece can be placed. Each solved cube can be rotated such that the 'T' piece is on the bottom with its long edge along the front and the 'tongue' of the 'T' in the bottom center cube (this is the normalized position of the large cube). This can be proven as follows: If you consider all the possible ways that the 'T' piece can be placed in the large cube (without regard to any of the other pieces), it will be seen that it will always fill either two corners of the large cube or zero corners. There is no way to orient the 'T' piece such that it fills only one corner of the large cube. The 'L' piece can be oriented such that it fills two corners, or one corner, or zero corners. Each of the other five pieces have no orientation that fills two corners; they can fill either one corner or zero corners. Therefore, if you exclude the 'T' piece, the maximum number of corners that can be filled by the remaining six pieces is seven (one corner each for five pieces, plus two corners for the 'L' piece). A cube has eight corners. But the 'T' piece cannot be oriented to fill just that one remaining corner, and orienting it such that it fills zero corners will obviously not make a cube. Therefore, the 'T' must always fill two corners, and there is only one orientation (discounting rotations and reflections) in which it does that. It also follows from this that in all solutions, five of the remaining six pieces will fill their maximum number of corners and one piece will fill one fewer than its maximum (this is called the deficient piece).[6]
Similar puzzles[edit]
Similar to Soma cube is the 3D pentomino puzzle, which can fill boxes of 2×3×10, 2×5×6 and 3×4×5 units.
The Bedlam cube is a 4×4×4 sided cube puzzle consisting of twelve pentacubes and one tetracube. The Diabolical cube is a puzzle of six polycubes that can be assembled together to form a single 3×3×3 cube.
See also[edit]
References[edit]
- ^Ole Poul Pedersen (February 2010). Thorleif Bundgaard (ed.). 'The birth of SOMA'. Retrieved 2010-12-04.
- ^Cf. Martin Gardner (1961). The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions. New York: Simon & Schuster. Reprinted in 1987 by University of Chicago Press, ISBN0-226-28253-8, p. 65 (online).
- ^'Fastest time to complete a Soma cube'. guinnessworldrecords.com.
- ^Bundgaard, Thorleif. 'Why are the pieces labelled as they are'. SOMA News. Retrieved 10 August 2012.
- ^Pink, Daniel H. (2009). 'Drive, The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us'. Riverhead Books.
- ^Kustes, William (May 18, 2003), 'The complete 'SOMAP' is found', SOMA News, retrieved April 25, 2014.
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