Fan concept page: a what-if pitch, not a Microsoft product. VMX is an unofficial fan project, revealed Nov. 15, 2026. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Microsoft.
Manufacturer: VMX Studio
Release: Nov. 15, 2002
Type: Puzzle
Plays on: VMX and Xbox
A cell in FOLD ROOMS.
FOLD
A box-pushing puzzle in rooms that fold round a shape you can't see. Build a level on the Xbox, then play it on the VMX.
FOLD ROOMS on the VMX: push every box onto a target, one cell at a time. Walk off the edge of a cell and you're in the next one.
Cells move. A box on a button can flip a cell, turn it, slide it or swing it on a hinge, and the rooms you knew are not where you left them.
Tiles to build with: ice, one-way floors, pits, teleporters, gates, keys and locks, grates, pressure plates, lights, signs, keypads and more.
Wiring: buttons, plates and sensors send signals through and / or / not, latches, counters, timers and delays to the cells and tiles they work.
FOLD BUILDER on the Xbox: build your level in 3D with the controller, try it in a VMX window on the TV, then send it to your VMX.
Undo every move with B; hold B to start the level again.
Fifteen levels come with FOLD ROOMS. The rest are the ones you build yourself or, soon, download from the internet.
FOLD Demo
This feature requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 1.0 and Internet Explorer 5.01 or later. This page runs it in your browser instead (WebAssembly). Nothing is downloaded or installed. Five early levels from FOLD ROOMS. Nothing is saved: reload the page and it starts again at level 1.
A level is a set of cells: square rooms of 8 by 8 tiles. Walls, floor, boxes, targets and buttons
are all tiles. The cells join edge to edge, and in FOLD they don't lie flat: they wrap round a shape. You only ever see
the cell you're in, so working out how they fit is part of the puzzle.
When something moves
Push a box onto a button and somewhere a cell moves. The VMX tells you what happened, but not where: finding that out
is up to you.
Cleared.
FOLD BUILDER
FOLD BUILDER is the Xbox half. It runs on the TV with the controller: lay cells out in 3D, paint their tiles, wire buttons
to the cells they move, and play the level right there in a window that shows exactly what the VMX will. When it's ready,
VMX World puts it on your VMX, and FOLD ROOMS lists it under MADE with the levels you've built.
One game, two machines
A level is a small text file, and both machines play it by the same rules: a level that works in FOLD BUILDER works in your pocket in the same way.
This site is best viewed with Internet Explorer 5.5 or later at 800 x 600 or higher.
The demos also run in any current browser.
Get VMX
The VMX isn't for sale yet. We're looking for a partner to build it, with a Kickstarter as the backup.
Xbox Live launched Nov. 15, 2002. VMX scores go online from VMX World, or by phone from the VMX itself.
(Score service in development.)
About this page
A fan concept: what an Xbox memory unit with a screen might have looked like on launch day of
Xbox Live. Made by fans, with our own art. Not a Microsoft page.
