Epic Green Cube by Robrock55

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made by Robrock55 for LD26 (JAM)
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 :)

Ratings

Coolness 48% 1284
Overall(Jam) 2.83 389
Audio(Jam) 2.06 412
Fun(Jam) 2.96 252
Graphics(Jam) 2.50 453
Innovation(Jam) 1.87 531
Theme(Jam) 3.39 228

Feedback

TiDitto
29. Apr 2013 路 22:37 UTC
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.
馃帳 Robrock55
30. Apr 2013 路 10:58 UTC
Hum, don't have any problems on my personnal computer.
I'll try to fix that this afternoon
馃帳 Robrock55
30. Apr 2013 路 11:11 UTC
I've changed the jar to a zip. Should work.
Thanks for report :D
Pinkerator
30. Apr 2013 路 14:47 UTC
Launched "launch.bat" and... Nothing happened. It seems game needs something to work.
Sebastian
30. Apr 2013 路 15:11 UTC
Hey, not working on mac. Hope you get it running soon!
xandy
30. Apr 2013 路 15:30 UTC
same error as "blasphemous rumours entertainment studios" here
phi
30. Apr 2013 路 15:50 UTC
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!
馃帳 Robrock55
30. Apr 2013 路 15:59 UTC
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
02. May 2013 路 02:31 UTC
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
02. May 2013 路 08:24 UTC
Great game! A music could have added more fun to it :)
Typedeaf
02. May 2013 路 17:13 UTC
Pretty good game, I especially liked the flavor text every time you die =P
queader
02. May 2013 路 17:31 UTC
Yeah! I won! After a lot of deaths, though.
loxo
02. May 2013 路 18:00 UTC
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.
馃帳 Robrock55
02. May 2013 路 18:43 UTC
Thanks for the explanation ! It will probably help a lot of people.
We'll try to resolve this before next time ;)
Jiddo
02. May 2013 路 19:26 UTC
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.
zerocreativity1
03. May 2013 路 08:14 UTC
Level 7 is way harder than it should be. Really liked level 10 though. that was a fun challenge.
GranaDa
03. May 2013 路 15:00 UTC
Great game! Level 5 and 7 are hard!!!
dotteri
03. May 2013 路 16:19 UTC
This runs well on Java 6 Linux. GLaDOS would be proud.
Cyboot
06. May 2013 路 19:48 UTC
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 Cash
07. May 2013 路 18:06 UTC
I have the same error as 'blasphemous rumours entertainment studios'. Running Win7 64-bit with Oracle's Java 7
recursive frog
09. May 2013 路 05:56 UTC
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)
Benjamin
12. May 2013 路 15:32 UTC
nice death effect + sfx :)
Harsay
19. May 2013 路 13:55 UTC
Simple maze. It has potential to be a screamer :D
馃帳 Robrock55
21. May 2013 路 16:53 UTC
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 :)