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Cube Infection

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness371
Audio393.59
Innovation663.71
Graphics1073.75
Mood2363.03
Overall2633.17
Fun3102.94
Theme6622.35
Humor6811.54

Comments

dst 2012-12-17 12:59

I couldn't run the Linux version (I'm on 32 bit), but the windows version works in wine, absolutely beautiful game, stunning music. Takes some figuring out. Very nice.

robashton 2012-12-17 13:02

I wasn't able to win (I tried a few times), so your point about the random levels holds (or I'm an idiot :-))

Still, nice idea and I like the graphics and the music - next time MOAR HELP pls

geoege 2012-12-17 13:03

Are guardians your friends or ennemiy ?

robotic 2012-12-17 13:06

It looks really nice, but it is really confusing... I didn't rate the fun and innovation because I do not want to put a bad rating if I didn't understand

nokid 2012-12-17 13:09

As you are the villain, Guardians are your ennemies.

Sorry for the rules not being clear, I'm gonna write a little guide right now ! Thanks you anyway for giving it a try.

geoege 2012-12-17 13:10

Ok they're ennemies, had a lot of fun , graphics and sound are pretty cool too. A bit hard to understand on firsts try but finally won :) !

Nonakesh 2012-12-17 13:14

That game is awesome! I really like the graphics, those lighting effects are just cool. The audio was really good as well. It's really fun to play as well.

A little bug: you can only conquer the core with connections that were there at the beginning. Your own connections don't work.

nokid 2012-12-17 13:19

Nonakesh : Weird behavior. I'll retest it, but that's not the way it should work. Thanks you for pointing it out, I apologize. I hope you had fun though ;)

arch-jslin 2012-12-17 13:20

The gameplay itself is pretty novel, but I don't know if is it just me, I find that unsolvable maps too common.

tumoxep 2012-12-17 13:21

It took me a while to figure out, but then I replayed it about ten times.
Awesome! Five's in all fields.
Also, music kick ass!

nokid 2012-12-17 13:22

The main problem is that they're totally random. I could have done hand-made levels, or write a solver to check the difficulty, but time was running out :(

gamexcore 2012-12-17 13:23

Really fun, best extremely frustrating, took me a while to work out what I was supposed to be doing, but then I could never get a board that I could win, there were always greenies next to the yellow bloke!

cthu 2012-12-17 14:28

Looks great, but I second the confusion of figuring things out.

delpes 2012-12-17 14:40

Enjoyed this game very much. A create concept. I almost beat the good GREEN guys ;) I will definitely try this again later to see if i can win.

amour-maternel 2012-12-17 17:46

Great, i liked it. Very nice and innovative. For me the fact that your "avatar" is the red cube and ennemies the green ones is enough for the theme. One of my favorite tested games so far.

pfirsich 2012-12-17 21:48

Even though it took me quite a while to figure out what I have to too, this game ist actually quite a bit of fun! It's a pain in the a** though to make sure you draw perfectly(!) horizontal or vertical lines.

nokid 2012-12-17 23:12

Aw, I was aware of that as being sometimes a bit annoying, but not that much :(
The tip is, to succeed in your drag, do it slowly. Even if there are timers in game, you have much time to do it.

But I have to say, honestly, yes, the code I wrote for this function is quite awful :-)

dustystylus 2012-12-18 15:25

Curious and addictive little game. Nice music as well with a pleasant graphical aesthetic. Me likey. :)

shaneshanekavanagh 2012-12-18 19:13

Nice game! There's a definite strategy that's worth developing there.

cyboot 2012-12-18 21:55

fun game, first game i played this LD and its a good one :)
I agree that it was a little confusing at first (had to restart to reread the rules) but it was fun after that.

Also the graphics are really nice. Good job

dragonkn 2012-12-19 15:43

quite confused game ! but nice graphics

deathbysnail 2012-12-20 22:56

Interesting idea. Afraid I had no idea what I was doing, however. But that made it somehow appealing...

doos 2012-12-20 23:08

I think the game could have been a bit quicker to go with the music but thought the graphics were well done.

alexrose 2012-12-20 23:22

That was pretty cool once I figured out how to play!

By the way, what was the song based off of again? It feels like it was either The Prodigy or something off The Matrix soundtrack but I can't think of the song.

Anyway, fun game.

csanyk 2012-12-21 01:57

Played a few times but couldn't figure out how to get anywhere. One, two hops at most. I guess your level generator needs a little tweaking. Good music tho!

singpolyma 2012-12-22 19:32

32bit version would be nice.

valeroth 2012-12-23 21:06

Liked the idea but couldnt get very far. Audio and graphics were really good.

One BIG bug though, I thought the game was unplayable for a while. Fullscreening comletely screws things up. I'm guessing youre using absolute window coordinates or something cos clicking the squares meant nothing happened. You might want to update it and get rid of the option to fullscreen

spe 2012-12-26 13:38

Nice idea and game rules. Like the graphics, but overall a bit too slow-paced for my taste.

strong99 2013-01-06 16:20

I like this game and setting. Most of the time the gold cube gets captured by green! :0 Arg!

jacksgamessucks 2013-01-06 16:21

at the beggining i thought it will be great game but after few tries i gave up - game is not playable - i stack after few moves, nothing can be done, no more cubes to take over, nothing is changing on map.
i love the idea but you must implement some system that will ensure that use is able to win somehow or make more moves