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Fails to play?

If you cannot buy it, build it.

-Told Horacio Pagani,

and Dovydas added:

If you cannot build a big one, build a small one.

Began with inception

In the movie Inception(2010) there is a scene, where Ariadne is being recruited and she bends the town like a book. The street goes above the street, roofs meet each other head on. Rubik's cube inside out.

And then appeared Delne

One time, while examining a box for little present, with fliping walls, I suddenly started to imagine little houses and different geometries, that would allow box to close, but when opened, they would represent a little world. Similar stuff to "Inception". That jumpstarted Delne project.

Positioning

When I saw that little folding world, I thought, what if I could move those buildings, pave the roads, then rebuild everything? Can I expand the territory? And how to make this puzzle robust, so that thump on the table would not destroy everything?

Mmm..MMagnets

Of course, magnets. It took quite a few prototypes and iterations to develop a system where everything would interact as it should - expectedly, reliably and, most importantly, - satisfyingly. It does not matter now, in what form will you meet this world, the possibilities are endless. It's just the beginning.

Manufactured using 3D printers

Due to amount of different pieces and complex geometries, the most practical way to bring this world to life is FDM technology. Not only for intricate shapes, while printing you can change materials which allow a lot of creative technics, that would be hard and expensive to materialize in injection molding. Another advantage - you can pause prints, to integrate magnets inside models, thus making pieces disassembly-proof.