M-Cubed

Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.55
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.49
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.65
Humor★★★★★★★★★★3.00
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.41
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★100%
In our game you play a maintenance engineer, you work for an art gallery where new restoration robots are being trialed. The robots have malfunctioned (as robots are prone to doing) and have started turning the paintings into minimalist art! You must head into the paintings and bring the faulty machines back to your workshop.

Controls:
Left & right arrow keys = move player left and right
Up arrow key = jump
Down arrow key = pick up block
Hold space & cursor keys = aim and charge your laser
Release space = fire laser (if charged)
Press space (if carrying block) = drop block

This is a game jam entry made in Construct 2 by three team members:

Adam Summerton (SecondDimension) - design, programming and music.

Adam Duncan (Kmad) - design and programming.

James Crossley (who is new to LD) - design and art.

We hope you enjoy our game!

Comments30

rab236
rab23629 Apr 2013, 18:00
This is great. It has a good storyline and concept and is nicely polished.
BradleySmith
BradleySmith29 Apr 2013, 18:02
Really interesting game, like the walking animation and the music is nice too. Great effort for 48 hours.
rezoner
rezoner29 Apr 2013, 21:01
I love the ... polygon animal, feels like Salvador Dali. The assets could be more consequent, overall quite a well established entry for a 48h
Kortuga9829 Apr 2013, 21:04
Cool concept, reminds me of Super Mario 64 in a sense.
Norritt4229 Apr 2013, 21:06
Wow that is a good game full game. I had some tarring between the blocks but that's just a minor.
Milktoast
Milktoast29 Apr 2013, 21:12
Nice minimal Mario. Good mechanics.
goleegrees1 May 2013, 11:43
Great game! I really like the music.
Hatscat1 May 2013, 12:46
I like it!It's really fun and ful. So, I played your game at least 30 minutes.
Good graphics, sounds and gameplay !
MRvanderPants1 May 2013, 13:06
Very nice atmosphere and interesting gameplay. Also, music is pretty good.
Colapsydo
Colapsydo1 May 2013, 14:01
I love the plot and the game mechanic.
SecondDimension
SecondDimensionauthor1 May 2013, 18:27
Thanks so much for the nice comments everyone
TeamEagle3 May 2013, 13:55
Cool little game! I think the controls could use some work - alternating between down, up, space feels a little clunky still and I got hit a few times when I had intended to charge the beam. I liked the background music, it's very relaxed, but the sound effects are a bit typical. But pretty original overall, so good work!
ovenchips
ovenchips3 May 2013, 16:05
Good concept. Music was very nice indeed. Controls were slightly fiddly - I kept jumping instead of aiming. I'm giving extra marks for the potato reference. :) Well done!!
SecondDimension
SecondDimensionauthor3 May 2013, 21:14
We agree about the controls, they are a bit of a pain. We were planning to revamp them to use mouse-aim, but it just never happened due to the time constraints.
I just played through it again and some of it is bloody difficult. I was cursing the stupid people that made it...
NateNaterson
NateNaterson3 May 2013, 23:04
Wow! Great art/music, and a very nice interpretation of the theme. Not perfect, but deserving of an Overall 5/5. Fantastic work :)
Grouflon3 May 2013, 23:06
Very polished game, nice gameplay, nice graphics, nice audio. It's a risk to do a story-based game in a such small amount of time. Lovely experience I really enjoyed!
Pixelfan Games
Pixelfan Games3 May 2013, 23:48
I like the music, the story i think is very good game!!!
nseward
nseward4 May 2013, 21:15
So...much...fun! Great concept and follow through.
joekinley
joekinley4 May 2013, 21:16
I love the music. These 2 tracks are plain brilliant and they set an awesome dreamy mood for the game.
The puzzles got quite hard in level 2 and 3. But overall it was a nice concept. Very well done.

The picture stuff reminded me of mario 64, and in a good way too. This is a nice game and I had a lot of fun playing it.
tsb4 May 2013, 21:33
Great entry, very interesting ambience
FREEZX
FREEZX5 May 2013, 00:08
Fun game. Feels very finished. Awesome game mechanics!
SecondDimension
SecondDimensionauthor5 May 2013, 15:03
Added a download of the soundtrack if anyone wants it, it's just a zip file with both MP3s inside
MinionStudios
MinionStudios6 May 2013, 03:27
Interesting game. I could not get very far...
onzephyr6 May 2013, 03:34
great idea. Very finished feel . liked the mechanics , and the audio complemented the style and pacing well.
_Rilem6 May 2013, 15:28
Loveley little game with a good mechanic. You should definitely continue to work on it. Sometimes the laser was a bit hard to control though.

Good job guys!
SuperDisk11 May 2013, 04:27
Game was good. Couldn't muster up the strength to beat it, however. Why does the technician have some sort of painting corrector? Why do the paintings need corrected, weren't they perfect from the artist's point of view from the very start? It's all very deep.

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