My Cube

by gajop
co-authored: @anarchid, @picassoct
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.42
Fun★★★★★★★★★★2.95
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.24
Theme★★★★★★★★★★3.47
Graphics★★★★★★★★★★3.90
Mood★★★★★★★★★★3.25
It's been two years since our last LD submission, and we're excited to release our new game!

Stay on land, the water is freezing. Keep your people alive, heated and well fed. Survive.

Controls:
- Standard RTS controls (Left Click to select, Right Click to give orders, Mouse, WASD or Arrow to move Camera)
- 1 to sell ice
- 2 to buy heat
- 3 to buy food!

Recommended spec:
- Linux (with libcurl3) or Windows
- OpenGL drivers and a relatively modern GFX card (at least GLSL 3.x + support)

Comments11

DeinFreund14 Aug 2018, 10:02
The game somehow started off-screen on windows for me. Type {Enter}/fullscreen{Enter} to fix.

It would be nice if people wouldn't run off the cliff by themselves (either use hold position by default or auto-kite).

+1 for the throwing animation. The victory event is a bit boring though, it should come immediately after fending off the last wave or something similar.

Even though the game seems more simplistic than your previous LD entries, I like seeing one with more standard RTS controls/gameplay.
gajopauthor14 Aug 2018, 11:55
@deinfreund I agree with your review.

- Didn't have time to make them act as spiders.
- The victory event is boring but it's better than no victory event. Was pretty exhausted when I was finishing it so I went with the easiest victory check I could with the existing code. Of course this wouldn't be difficult, just couldn't fit in the finale.
Fluffy_Kaeloky
Fluffy_Kaeloky16 Aug 2018, 14:13
I'll admit that the game was really, really confusing for me. I had some huge UI issues as well unfortunately, notably with the bars and selection.
I would also have really liked if the characters could automatically fallback when the ice is being destroyed by the ships.

Other than that, the art is really good and the mood is set, good job !
George Lancaster
George Lancaster16 Aug 2018, 14:14
I liked it. The controls were a little funky but overall it's a good entry. I like how you punch holes in the ice and run out of space.
gajopauthor16 Aug 2018, 14:22
@fluffy-kaeloky Thanks for the feedback. Any idea what the UI issues were? Sounds like some shader issues. The engine we use sometimes has troubles with ATI or Intel cards, but I'm really just guessing.
Our characters are a bit stupid, yea
gajopauthor16 Aug 2018, 14:24
@george-lancaster Thanks for playing :) The 1-3 key combinations were a bit unnecessary (and confusing) indeed. We had greater dreams :D
Fluffy_Kaeloky
Fluffy_Kaeloky16 Aug 2018, 14:34
@gajop Well, I had issues with the police. It started flickering here and there. I'm not sure, but maybe the values weren't updated as well (I had a warning saying they were cold and hungry when the bars were almost full).
For the selection, instead of having a square, it was simply glitched and all over the place.

My GPU is a Nvidia Titan XP CE.

I hope I was able to point you to the right direction o7
gajopauthor16 Aug 2018, 15:02
No idea but oh well :P (Actually could probably figure out the reason behind it if you provided the infolog.txt file, but it's just a Ludum Dare game so don't worry about it)

The warning was mostly there to introduce players to the mechanic. It didn't reflect your actual state.
DarkGuardsman
DarkGuardsman16 Aug 2018, 15:13
Game is a bit confusing, I had units landing in buildings without much explanation. Keep getting attack from all sides and the game kept telling me to buy resource even when full.
icxon
icxon16 Aug 2018, 21:15
I love the rts style. But I didn't get some mechanics -- how to refill units heat/food/money bars? What buildings do? Why money limit is 100 only (while I can keep melting ice and just wasting it)? Zoom is really helpfull, but I just discovered it in the middle of the game. And I'd like to see enimies hp bars too.

Here is my playthrough:

PicassoCT17 Aug 2018, 16:17
@icxon

Hey, thanks for playin icxon.
Heat is refilled by the stove (that little building looking like a barell with chimneys).
Food is refilled by walking close to a iglu.

@darkguardsman Advice is hardcoded. Its difficult to actually detect players fullfilling conditions.

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