Maze Design Principles

Concepts and techniques for designing mazes.

Mutually accessible centres

• Nodal junctions that convert a Maze into a Network.
• Can circle indefinitely.
• Invented by Greg Bright, The Maze King

The Rhizome Labyrinth

• Rhizome - One single, connected maze. Any 2 points may be connected in multiple ways.
• The Library of Babel is a Rhizome universe.

Partial Valves

• 3+ paths swirl around each other into a centre point.
• Controls movement by making it hard to retrace steps.

Bridges

• In 2D, there is only so much room and complexity is limited.
• Bridges make mazes a three dimensional problem and allow new ways to traverse the maze.

Conditional movement

• Only certain paths available at any one time.