[pierrec]

That's a valid point of view, but it sounds like a different, more educated take than your original comment. This education is exactly one of the reasons why I love games like this.

To clarify, "For instance, if you were project the space on to a rectangle, what would fundamentally change about the game?" didn't make much sense in the context of this game, and made it sound like the game's world could have been represented in a simpler, more obvious way. All I'm saying is, as you might understand better now, there is no simpler way, and you can't simply fit hyperbolic space onto euclidean space. I would approach this game partly as a math experiment, and partly as a game, with the goal of exploring the possibilities of this combination.