Mazeworld

Mazeworld is a real-time 3D maze-exploration adventure for the Macintosh, written by MHOW (Delphi) and released as shareware in April 1995. Version 1.0.3 marked the point at which the title shifted from a demo to a fully playable shareware game, the first entry in a small family that later included Mazeworld Catacombs and Mazeworld Abyss.

Gameplay

Mazeworld puts the player inside a first-person 3D maze rendered in color, navigated entirely by mouse. There is no sound and no auto-mapping in this Original release; orientation comes from carefully reading the corridors themselves.

System requirements

The game requires a color-capable Macintosh running System 7 with at least 1.5 MB of free RAM. Color display is mandatory for Original Mazeworld, distinguishing it from the later monochrome-tolerant siblings.

Place in the series

Original Mazeworld is the slow, atmospheric ancestor of the line. The author explicitly directs players who want sound, keyboard controls, or auto-mapping to Mazeworld Catacombs, the faster arcade-style follow-up. Combined registration for both titles was offered for $10.

Distribution

Released through the Info-Mac archive (game/arc/mazeworld-103.hqx) as a BinHex 4.0 download, Mazeworld 1.0.3 stands as the fully unlocked shareware release rather than the earlier demo.