Young David's Mazes

1982-87: This collection honors my childhood love of drawing mazes. Follow my design progression from forking lines into classic path & barrier style and beyond, with inspirations from 1980’s Atari, comics, TV and real life. At the most advanced, I explore arrow flow, DND-like item collection and leveling, word building and transportation mazes. In what I called “beam mazes,” when the solver encounters an icon (or character) in their path, they get transported to its matching pair. This changes how the solver’s eye would naturally flow; a dead end is no longer an end if you can transport to a new part of the maze. In the item collection and leveling mazes, the solver must first come acr...View all