DieCubesDie by Fate

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made by Fate for LD25 (JAM)
A game in which you must kill maze solving cubes.

Ratings

Coolness 24% 1027
Overall(Jam) 3.36 92
Fun(Jam) 3.14 98
Graphics(Jam) 3.64 98
Humor(Jam) 3.15 78
Innovation(Jam) 3.50 48
Mood(Jam) 3.62 29
Theme(Jam) 3.50 120

Feedback

Princess Buccaneer
17. Dec 2012 路 12:31 UTC
My first thought is "Hooray, a Linux binary!". My second thought is "Eh? It's in a .zip file?"

The game's pretty challenging - especially with a touchpad - but a few times I did manage to block off the exit completely.

I'm on a 16:10 monitor so the text on the sides was cut off - if anybody else isn't on a 16:9 monitor, I'd recommend reading it beforehand.

This was pretty fun and very technically impressive. It's a nice mashup of tower defense and puzzle games!
tomc
17. Dec 2012 路 23:48 UTC
It's definitely possible to completely trap the blocks (try building walls from the entrance up to the first set of spike and closing them in with it). Probably you want to run some search algorithm each time a block is placed to check that no blocks are unable to reach the exit.

Kudos for the linux binary though, and it's a pretty clever idea!
馃帳 Fate
18. Dec 2012 路 03:06 UTC
Thanks for playing, I will play your guy's games later when I finish work.

The game does stop you from placing walls that block cubes from finishing, but I coded it quickly before submitting the game, so it probably has some major flaws. I know that it doesn't take the entrance into account, so you can block the entrance, and then no cubes can solve the maze, or if there are no cubes in the maze you can block the exit.
MaTX
18. Dec 2012 路 17:57 UTC
Pretty nice gameplay and stylish graphics.
oldtopman
19. Dec 2012 路 04:29 UTC
While not a spectacular game, this one left me feeling dirty afterwards. 5/5 in Mood.
someone
19. Dec 2012 路 20:47 UTC
That was great.
The input was a bit awkward though. Mouse picking would have been better.
myachin
20. Dec 2012 路 12:19 UTC
dont have lunix
馃帳 Fate
21. Dec 2012 路 03:48 UTC
@myachin you can still play on windows. The download is a zip that contains all the source. I've been meaning to compile for windows, but just haven't got round to booting up windows and getting sdl and opengl for it.
Frozen Fractal
24. Dec 2012 路 14:36 UTC
Apparently my 16:10 screen isn't wide enough, because the instructions got clipped off. But very original puzzler, and pretty gory looking too!
Mista Koo
25. Dec 2012 路 09:38 UTC
It appears flickery for some reason, it hurt my eyes and crashed my pc :(