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Cubyrinth

By kezhaar

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CategoryRankScoreCount
Coolness373
Innovation1243.74
Audio1543.70
Mood2183.61
Overall2753.58
Fun4983.18
Graphics5183.46
Theme9243.00

Comments

eingya 2015-12-15 03:25

Nice little 3d "puzzle box", haven't got the patience to compete it though :p

Also not entirely sure about how it fits into the theme (oh wait, is it because the screen thing has two buttons on it?)

tentacode 2015-12-15 08:41

Hello everyone ! Gamedev of the game here.

Yep, "Two Buttons" is because every terminal in the puzzle has two buttons. Enjoy this mind breaking little level ! Try it in VR if you have an Oculus.

You should be able to control it "FPS Style" (QSDZ, shift for run, space for jump, mouse click for interaction) or with an Xbox 360 controller.

nicso 2015-12-15 12:50

Really cool idea and nice production.
The mood fits perfectly with the gameplay.

Controls seems a little bit on the slippery side.

Maybe you should block the player while the cube is rotating tho, cause i managed to pass from the "factory" to the "labyrinth" while the cube was rotating :)
Death after that spawned me upside down ^^

tentacode 2015-12-15 13:01

nicso : thanks for the review :D obviously it's a lot buggy and I did not have tome to playtest it enough, glad you liked it though. I have the same feedback for the controls, we used the Oculus FPS Controller and it could be improved a bit.

chubb1337 2015-12-15 17:25

Love it! The atmosphere, the puzzling, the graphics, it's great! One thing though, where do I go? Haha ;)

p.s. the buttons are hard to press sometimes

kezhaar 2015-12-15 17:39

Thanks for the review :) Yeah, I know the button pressing is not optimal, especially when not using the Oculus, will fix this in a future version !

gogo199432 2015-12-15 18:22

Interesting idea, but a bit of directions would have been very helpful ;)

kezhaar 2015-12-15 20:34

Directions : you have to go at the top of the blue tower :p Keep at it, kezhaar who knows the route by heart does it in 10 / 15 min :p - tentacode (logged in as kezhaar for voting).

There is a chrono at the end, anyone wants to speedrun it ? We challenge you !

clavus 2015-12-15 22:35

Pretty great puzzle design! Played it in my DK2. Sadly the default first-person movement system is a bit too nauseating for me to play for extended periods, so I had to stop after 10 minutes. I might come back to it later because it did look very interesting.

kezhaar 2015-12-16 02:42

For information, you have to open 3 doors in order to complete the game. This 3 doors need to be open in the right order (since opening one close the away to another one)
The first one is in a scify styled room, the second after a big labyrinth and the third after a serie of jumps from high pillars. All of these door openers are accessible from the first section ( the one with the red tower ), so you mainly have to run across section 2 and section 3 to unlock the right paths. I also leave some unexpected routings with funny exlpoit when i realize how hard the game will be :)

kezhaar 2015-12-16 13:51

Updated the description and added a video demo :) enjoy! - @tentacode

codexus 2015-12-16 18:08

Nice idea.Played it in VR but after a while there was just too much slow going trial and error to make any progress and i gave up.

dinnerinthedark 2015-12-20 12:22

Cool concept, nice mood, could use some more direction for the player. Good job!

marknc 2015-12-20 12:50

I think that the game itself seems well made given the time constraints. My biggest critique would be that the graphics are a bit too simple, I think you could have tweaked the shaders to give it more polish and appeal.

kezhaar 2015-12-20 13:03

@marknc thanks for your review, indeed the shaders have been setup in a hurry, we will polish them on the next version !

tantumgames 2015-12-20 13:13

Great puzzle game and nice mood. Good job.

leaden 2015-12-20 13:43

Amazing idea. This game is too cool for LD. Only one concern - slow moving without pressing Shift and slow part of cube rotation.

tapehead 2015-12-20 14:04

very nice concept for a puzzle game! like it! sometimes i was lost and had no idea what i do :D .. but i enjoyed this game. very well dobe :)

gipzo 2015-12-20 14:32

Interesting idea, but should be more polished to play ;)

f7f5 2015-12-27 18:54

This is a cool concept and the VR looks OK, but I just fell kind of lost and couldn't get anywhere, even with the directions provided.