Kubism

by znurre
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.78
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.67
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★2.50
Audio★★★★★★★★★★3.09
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.63
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.05
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★36%
A very simple game where you control a black square using the arrow keys.
Red squares spawn from the edges of the screen at random positions and attempt to attack you by flying towards you.
You earn score for every milisecond you manage to stay alive.
If two red squares collide, they will merge into a bigger one and the battlefield zooms out and becomes larger.
At the same time, a few other parameters will change, such as spawn rate of the red squares, movement speed and score multiplier.

Can you manage to beat the official highscore of 103k? :)

The Windows build is 64-bit and is tested on Windows 7 and Windows 8.
The Linux build is 64-bit and will work ootb on Ubuntu 14.04 and later using the bundled launch.sh script, other distros might require installing Qt 5, including QtMultimedia.

For buliding the game from source, QtMixer is required, which can be obtained from here: https://github.com/Znurre/QtMixer

In case you get flickering, try forcing vsync, it should help.

Comments17

Wakka7 Dec 2014, 18:02
Simple, yet challenging and fun principle. Awesome sound
volkoivan8 Dec 2014, 05:50
49665!
Cool, liked it! :)
Will certainly play again and challenge friends :)
olligobber
olligobber8 Dec 2014, 05:57
Sounds were not working for me on Linux, but I found the game fun.
Znurre
Znurreauthor8 Dec 2014, 06:24
@olligobber: Thank you. Your audio issue could be due to the game using the wrong audio output device, I know it does on my desktop (also running Linux). Manually forcing it to use the correct device in the sound mixer solves it for me.
Neonian8 Dec 2014, 16:57
Very nice! I like the challenge
Harsay8 Dec 2014, 17:00
Game flickers by what it's unplayable. Looks like realtime loop has some kind of bug. I'll rate when you fix it.
Znurre
Znurreauthor8 Dec 2014, 17:02
@Harsay: Forcing vsync is a temporary fix, but I'll see what I can do about the flickering.
JNyknn8 Dec 2014, 17:40
My eyes, my eyes are burning!

Good game, though.
hwinwuzhere8 Dec 2014, 17:45
Very challenging and cool :)
lantto9 Dec 2014, 18:08
Great mechanics and well executed. Very fun and innovative!

I also beat the highscore. 110540. :)
inkeystring9 Dec 2014, 21:41
Fiendish...and I like fiendish....
Wakka10 Dec 2014, 14:46
36466 that game is sooooooooo hard =) Nice little game with awesome sound! Had much fun!
f7f510 Dec 2014, 20:47
Is there a restart key? I had to quit and launch again...
oranebeast
oranebeast11 Dec 2014, 05:45
Wow! I would totally buy this as an app!
Znurre
Znurreauthor11 Dec 2014, 06:35
@f7f5: The Return key should work :)
hbocao
hbocao13 Dec 2014, 19:59
I was kinda sleepy for the required level of coordination. haha I'm fully awake now. I think the controls were a bit too sensitive, but nice job overall.
PS. The audio didn't work for me (Windows).
egor-idiot29 Dec 2014, 05:33
Epileptic, but funny %)

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