World Wide Maze Turns Any Website Into A 3D Maze In Google Chrome

There's no shortage of browser-based games available to casual gamers, but none are as quite unique as a new project called "World Wide Maze." The game uses actual websites to build 3D mazes in which players can then guide around a small steel ball, similar to the likes of Marble Madness or Super Monkey Ball.

The game builds the 3D mazes dynamically using the HTML elements of the website, and players use their Android smartphones as a controller for the game, which is played on their computer in the Google Chrome web browser. You simply sync the two devices through Chrome using a unique code, then you can fire up the game and go at it.

Players either tilt their mobile devices or use the on-screen controls to guide the steel ball around, and just the Wii U's gamepad, your Android smartphone's display can mirror what's on the computer screen. The video above shows what the game is all about and provides a quick demo so that you can see it in action. It's in Japanese, but most of the important stuff is all visual anyway.

You'll need a fairly decent computer to run the game, even if it is purely browser-based. World Wide Maze works uses the WebGL standard, and it requires at least 1GB of RAM and a 256MB graphics card for hardware acceleration. However, most computers nowadays will be able to handle it. While this may not be a game that you'll spend hours playing, it's certainly a cool thing to try out, and it could very well be the future of a new type of gaming.

[via Ars Technica]