Epic Green Cube

Overall★★★★★★★★★★2.83
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.96
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★1.87
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.39
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Audio★★★★★★★★★★2.06
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★48%
Our first Ludum Dare, our first "complete" project, our first time working in team ! Harder than it looks but we will do it again :)
Run launch.bat to launch the game.
Enjoy :)

The story is very simple. You are a green square, and you are a prisonner of a bad AI named PotatOS. Your role ? Survive in the test room. But be careful, everything want your death...

There's no music and not enough levels, because we don't have enough time, but we'll do better the next time :)

screenshot

Comments25

TiDitto29 Apr 2013, 22:42
The Java JAR file "Epic Green Cube.jar" could not be launched.
Check the Console for possible error messages
cant run the game on a 10.6.8 mac...
Can't run, sadly, seems interesting.

K:\GameJam\GameJams\LD26_OtherGames\Epic Green Cube>java -jar "Epic Green Cube.j
ar"
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsupportedClassVersionError: graphics/Main
: Unsupported major.minor version 51.0
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass1(Native Method)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClassCond(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.defineClass(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.access$000(Unknown Source)
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(Unknown Source)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(Unknown Source)
Could not find the main class: graphics.Main. Program will exit.
Robrock55author30 Apr 2013, 11:03
Hum, don't have any problems on my personnal computer.
I'll try to fix that this afternoon
Robrock55author30 Apr 2013, 11:16
I've changed the jar to a zip. Should work.
Thanks for report :D
Pinkerator30 Apr 2013, 14:52
Launched "launch.bat" and... Nothing happened. It seems game needs something to work.
Sebastian
Sebastian30 Apr 2013, 15:16
Hey, not working on mac. Hope you get it running soon!
xandy30 Apr 2013, 15:35
same error as "blasphemous rumours entertainment studios" here
phi
phi30 Apr 2013, 15:55
Could have been more levels, but the ones that you've got there are very nice! Could also use some more sound effects, but overall it's a great game. Loved playing it!
Robrock55author30 Apr 2013, 16:04
It works on Windows, I'm searching for the others OS... Are your Java up to date ?
Thanks phi, we didn't have time for a music, but it was our first LD :)
Leginar
Leginar2 May 2013, 02:36
It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great. I would have loved to see a few more levels though. I'd defiantly check out your next game if you join again
Xaychru04
Xaychru042 May 2013, 08:29
Great game! A music could have added more fun to it :)
Typedeaf
Typedeaf2 May 2013, 17:18
Pretty good game, I especially liked the flavor text every time you die =P
queader2 May 2013, 17:36
Yeah! I won! After a lot of deaths, though.
loxo2 May 2013, 18:05
Nice simple game with good level design. The last level was a little frustrating, but I managed to win.

The game needs Java 7 (Unsupported major.minor version 51.0). I'm on Mac OS X 10.8 and used the official Oracle Java 7 installation. On my system this java version isn't the default java, so I had to start the game with:

/Library/Internet\ Plug-Ins/JavaAppletPlugin.plugin/Contents/Home/bin/java graphics/Main

Maybe there is another way, but this worked for me.
Robrock55author2 May 2013, 18:48
Thanks for the explanation ! It will probably help a lot of people.
We'll try to resolve this before next time ;)
Jiddo2 May 2013, 19:31
Nice work! The game runs perfectly for me using Oracle's Java 7 on Linux. I would have preferred an applet or a runnable JAR file tho, just to skip the unnecessary extraction step.

The game was easy to understand and get into, and it was challenging. The death particle effect was a nice touch as well!

I found it a bit too unforgiving to die whenever you touch a wall. That was a bit frustrating at times.

There seemed to be some stuttering/lagging in the movement when you first press down a movement button. After holding it down for a few frames it went away tho. It wasn't really noticeable in the more complex levels tho, because you didn't really move that much at a time on them.
zerocreativity13 May 2013, 08:19
Level 7 is way harder than it should be. Really liked level 10 though. that was a fun challenge.
GranaDa
GranaDa3 May 2013, 15:05
Great game! Level 5 and 7 are hard!!!
dotteri3 May 2013, 16:24
This runs well on Java 6 Linux. GLaDOS would be proud.
Cyboot
Cyboot6 May 2013, 19:53
Great game, I really like it. It was also a good level of difficulty. The last level was a little hard at first but I beat it after a few tries.

As it is written in my favorite language (Java) there are some things I want to say. First, I really prefer one and only one file a JAR. (I saw you had some difficulties, but it not that hard to fix it). Second, I don't like games that take 100% CPU.

But nevertheless, really good game :)
Good Job!
Nick Cash7 May 2013, 18:11
I have the same error as 'blasphemous rumours entertainment studios'. Running Win7 64-bit with Oracle's Java 7
recursive frog
recursive frog9 May 2013, 06:01
On Mac and could not run the game. Got this error.

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: graphics/Main
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: graphics.Main
at java.net.URLClassLoader$1.run(URLClassLoader.java:202)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at java.net.URLClassLoader.findClass(URLClassLoader.java:190)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:306)
at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:301)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:247)
Benjamin12 May 2013, 15:37
nice death effect + sfx :)
Harsay19 May 2013, 14:00
Simple maze. It has potential to be a screamer :D
Robrock55author21 May 2013, 16:58
I want to thanks everybody who played and rated the game, this experience was awesome, we will surely do another Ludum dare in the future :)
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