M-Cubed by SecondDimension

made by SecondDimension for LD26 (JAM)

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!

Web (HTML5)	http://www.seconddimension.co.uk/games/M3/
Source (.capx)	http://www.seconddimension.co.uk/games/M3/mCubed_source.zip
Soundtrack	https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/134864110/LD26/M-Cubed%20Soundtrack.zip
Original URL	https://ludumdare.com/compo/ludum-dare-26/?action=preview&uid=14838

Ratings

Coolness	100%	1
Overall(Jam)	3.65	84

Audio(Jam)	3.65	76
Fun(Jam)	3.55	72
Graphics(Jam)	3.49	202
Humor(Jam)	3.00	96
Innovation(Jam)	3.33	151
Mood(Jam)	3.41	133
Theme(Jam)	3.09	345

Feedback

rab236

29. Apr 2013 · 17:55 UTC

This is great. It has a good storyline and concept and is nicely polished.

BradleySmith

29. Apr 2013 · 17:57 UTC

Really interesting game, like the walking animation and the music is nice too. Great effort for 48 hours.

rezoner

29. Apr 2013 · 20:56 UTC

I love the ... polygon animal, feels like Salvador Dali. The assets could be more consequent, overall quite a well established entry for a 48h

Kortuga98

29. Apr 2013 · 20:59 UTC

Cool concept, reminds me of Super Mario 64 in a sense.

Norritt42

29. Apr 2013 · 21:01 UTC

Wow that is a good game full game. I had some tarring between the blocks but that's just a minor.

Milktoast

29. Apr 2013 · 21:07 UTC

Nice minimal Mario. Good mechanics.

dualtagh

29. Apr 2013 · 21:14 UTC

cool idea!

goleegrees

01. May 2013 · 11:38 UTC

Great game! I really like the music.

Hatscat

01. May 2013 · 12:41 UTC

I like it!It's really fun and ful. So, I played your game at least 30 minutes.
Good graphics, sounds and gameplay !

MRvanderPants

01. May 2013 · 13:01 UTC

Very nice atmosphere and interesting gameplay. Also, music is pretty good.

Colapsydo

01. May 2013 · 13:56 UTC

I love the plot and the game mechanic.

🎤 SecondDimension

01. May 2013 · 18:22 UTC

Thanks so much for the nice comments everyone

TeamEagle

03. May 2013 · 13:50 UTC

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

03. May 2013 · 16:00 UTC

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

03. May 2013 · 21:09 UTC

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

03. May 2013 · 22:59 UTC

Wow! Great art/music, and a very nice interpretation of the theme. Not perfect, but deserving of an Overall 5/5. Fantastic work :)

Grouflon

03. May 2013 · 23:01 UTC

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

03. May 2013 · 23:43 UTC

I like the music, the story i think is very good game!!!

Abdullah Elsayed

04. May 2013 · 07:24 UTC

Nice game .. great graphics

nseward

04. May 2013 · 21:10 UTC

So...much...fun! Great concept and follow through.

joekinley

04. May 2013 · 21:11 UTC

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.

tsb

04. May 2013 · 21:28 UTC

Great entry, very interesting ambience

FREEZX

05. May 2013 · 00:03 UTC

Fun game. Feels very finished. Awesome game mechanics!

🎤 SecondDimension

05. May 2013 · 14:58 UTC

Added a download of the soundtrack if anyone wants it, it's just a zip file with both MP3s inside

aquilicoco

05. May 2013 · 22:21 UTC

Nice game!

MinionStudios

06. May 2013 · 03:22 UTC

Interesting game. I could not get very far...

onzephyr

06. May 2013 · 03:29 UTC

great idea. Very finished feel . liked the mechanics , and the audio complemented the style and pacing well.

_Rilem

06. May 2013 · 15:23 UTC

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!

SuperDisk

11. May 2013 · 04:22 UTC

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.

Bloated Hippo

17. May 2013 · 03:59 UTC

I like this idea :)