Kubism by Znurre

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made by Znurre for LD31 (COMPO)
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.

Ratings

Coolness 36% 1818
Overall 3.33 409
Audio 3.09 326
Fun 3.78 72
Graphics 2.50 936
Humor 2.63 451
Innovation 3.33 402
Mood 3.05 446
Theme 3.67 459

Feedback

Wakka
07. Dec 2014 路 17:57 UTC
Simple, yet challenging and fun principle. Awesome sound
volkoivan
08. Dec 2014 路 05:45 UTC
49665!
Cool, liked it! :)
Will certainly play again and challenge friends :)
olligobber
08. Dec 2014 路 05:52 UTC
Sounds were not working for me on Linux, but I found the game fun.
馃帳 Znurre
08. Dec 2014 路 06:19 UTC
@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.
Neonian
08. Dec 2014 路 16:52 UTC
Very nice! I like the challenge
Harsay
08. Dec 2014 路 16:55 UTC
Game flickers by what it's unplayable. Looks like realtime loop has some kind of bug. I'll rate when you fix it.
馃帳 Znurre
08. Dec 2014 路 16:57 UTC
@Harsay: Forcing vsync is a temporary fix, but I'll see what I can do about the flickering.
JNyknn
08. Dec 2014 路 17:35 UTC
My eyes, my eyes are burning!

Good game, though.
hwinwuzhere
08. Dec 2014 路 17:40 UTC
Very challenging and cool :)
lantto
09. Dec 2014 路 18:03 UTC
Great mechanics and well executed. Very fun and innovative!

I also beat the highscore. 110540. :)
inkeystring
09. Dec 2014 路 21:36 UTC
Fiendish...and I like fiendish....
Wakka
10. Dec 2014 路 14:41 UTC
36466 that game is sooooooooo hard =) Nice little game with awesome sound! Had much fun!
f7f5
10. Dec 2014 路 20:42 UTC
Is there a restart key? I had to quit and launch again...
oranebeast
11. Dec 2014 路 05:40 UTC
Wow! I would totally buy this as an app!
馃帳 Znurre
11. Dec 2014 路 06:30 UTC
@f7f5: The Return key should work :)
hbocao
13. Dec 2014 路 19:54 UTC
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-idiot
29. Dec 2014 路 05:28 UTC
Epileptic, but funny %)