DieCubesDie

Category	Rank	Score
Mood	29	3.62
Innovation	48	3.50
Humor	78	3.15
Overall	92	3.36
Graphics	98	3.64
Fun	98	3.14
Theme	120	3.50
Coolness	1027	24

princessbuccaneer 2012-12-17 12:36

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 2012-12-17 23:53

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!

fate 2012-12-18 03:11

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 2012-12-18 18:02

Pretty nice gameplay and stylish graphics.

lansiir 2012-12-19 04:34

While not a spectacular game, this one left me feeling dirty afterwards. 5/5 in Mood.

someone 2012-12-19 20:52

That was great.
The input was a bit awkward though. Mouse picking would have been better.

myachin 2012-12-20 12:24

dont have lunix

fate 2012-12-21 03:53

@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.

thomastc 2012-12-24 14:41

Apparently my 16:10 screen isn't wide enough, because the instructions got clipped off. But very original puzzler, and pretty gory looking too!

mistakoo 2012-12-25 09:43

It appears flickery for some reason, it hurt my eyes and crashed my pc :(