PEOPLE, IDEAS & MATERIALS
Behind the Weave.
Creator
Created by Oana Rinaldi, whose practice connects art, architecture and algorithms.
Art & sound
The game combines original fantasy architecture, generated realm illustrations and icon artwork, a character based on MakeHuman assets, and CC0 environmental materials and models from Poly Haven. Its ambient soundscapes and interactive cues are synthesized in the game.
Typography
Browser and Windows game menus use Crimson Text by Sebastian Kosch and Lato by Łukasz Dziedzic, distributed under the SIL Open Font License. Their licenses are included in the project.
Foundations & further reading
Miegakure, by Marc ten Bosch is an inspiration for exploring a four-dimensional world through three-dimensional slices. Aetherfold is an independent project and is not affiliated with Miegakure.
N-Dimensional Rigid Body Dynamics, Marc ten Bosch, ACM Transactions on Graphics (2020), provides further context on higher-dimensional simulation. Aetherfold uses a simpler custom movement and collision system, not that paper’s full dynamics solver.
Further reading on four-dimensional rotations and hyperplane sections accompany the project’s research notes.
About this website
The large hero and realm images are AI-enhanced promotional artwork created with ChatGPT from in-engine photographs. They retain the game’s recognizable architecture and viewpoints while enriching surface details, lighting and fantasy atmosphere. They are artistic interpretations, not screenshots of the game’s rendering or a first-person gameplay mode. Every chamber thumbnail is a separate frame from that chamber’s actual desktop walkthrough. Video panels show actual desktop gameplay. The campaign contains 136 chambers built from a set of recurring puzzle structures with different quests, geometry, and realm treatments.