3d maze screensaver changing textures windows#

Here are some screenshots that illustrate the complete journey through the game, more or less. You're looking for a giant smiley face icon to take you to the next, more complex level before you ultimately find a briefcase icon to conclude your journey. You must shoot the walls to transform them into a different texture, though it's not really clear what purpose this serves other than helping you avoid retreading your steps in the maze. You're a young hacker on a mission to stop your dystopian world from turning into a slightly different kind of dystopian world-this is according to the game's hilariously bad narration that includes 90s hype lines such as, 'Cyberspace has never looked so three dimensional! The geniuses at Microsoft have done it again!' The conceit is that the mazes are actually the tunnels through which truly valuable corporate data travels.

3d maze screensaver changing textures windows#

It takes the assets (they were extracted directly from ssmaze.scr) from Windows 95's iconic 3D Maze screensaver-the one that endlessly wanders a maze of brick walls in first-person perspective-and turns it into a very goofy cyberpunk hacking game. The game is freely available on itch.io for Windows, macOS, and Linux, and it was previously reported on by Motherboard. That's what Screensaver Subterfuge, an indie game made by Cahoots Malone, posits. Maybe they were wrong maybe it was the screensavers that mattered the most. Most would say that Windows 95 was significant for its addition of the Start button, or the merging of MS-DOS and Windows, or plug and play.

Twenty-two years ago, Microsoft Windows took a big leap forward with Windows 95.

The short indie game on itch.io makes you a hacker in a low-fi cyberspace.