Triforce is a short puzzle game by Patrick LeMieux (alt254) and Stephanie Boluk (chouxsalad) inspired by paradoxical places from the original Legend of Zelda.

In The Legend of Zelda, there are several strange spaces hidden around Hyrule that defy the logic of the Cartesian grid: the Lost Woods, the Lost Hills, and the Lost Roads. When navigating these 2D mazes, Link finds himself endlessly looping, temporarily arrested by a classic gaming trope. But when visualized in 3D, these labyrinths start to look different. Triforce features a non-Euclidean Hyrule full of donuts, Möbius strips, and Klein bottles as well as other secrets folded within the topologies of Zelda. Can you navigate three new dungeons in three dimensions to discover the three pieces of the triforce?

Triforce is a free game, designed for educational purposes and originally published in 2017 as part of Metagaming, a book by Stephanie Boluk and Patrick LeMieux available open access at manifold.umn.edu/projects/metagaming. Graphics, music, sound and text from The Legend of Zelda are property of Nintendo.

Reviews
"Nintendo has used spatial tricks before, like the flat walls of Super Mario Odyssey, the 2D/3D switching of Super Paper Mario or quick minigames in WarioWare: Twisted!, but Triforce takes it a step further to something that really needs to be played to do it justice." —Heather Alexandra, Kotaku

NES Remix "took classic NES titles and reimagined how people played them. It was a great success, but after watching the trailer . . . for Triforce, I realize there are so many more interesting ways to reimagine classic games than just replacing Mario with Link." —CJ Andriessen, Destructoid

"The Topologies of Zelda: Triforce is a head melting non-euclidean puzzle adventure in which you attempt to collect three Triforce pieces while traversing a The Legend of Zelda’s inspired 2D world that’s mapped onto rotatable 3D structures." —Free Game Planet

Awards
"100 Best Free Indie Games of All Time" —Indie Game Website
"Weirdest Video Games of 2018" —David Wildgoose, Junkee
"Best Video Essays of 2018" —Shane Denson, BFI

Updates
Updated 11/18/18 11:00PM PST to fix lag/hanging issues on Windows!! See v2.2 :)
Updated 11/14/18 11:30PM PST to add new dialog, new music, new endings!
Updated 11/12/18 10:40PM PST to edit major dialog, adjust bomb menu, fix sound.
Updated 11/12/18 9:30AM PST to edit dialog and add music to Triforce rooms.
Updated 11/11/18 11:35PM PST to edit dialog, adjust bomb menu, fix speed.
Updated 11/10/18 11:45PM PST to edit dialog and adjust the main menu
Thanks to Shenjoku for helping find the Windows bug!