iubes are intelligent cubes and we hate them all (PC game)
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iubes are intelligent cubes and we hate them all (PC game)
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iubes is now in open beta. You can download and play now!
Hi everyone!
I'm 36 from France (sorry for my english!) and for my very first contribution to this forum I'd like to present you my small game project: iubes.
Iubes is an unpretentious spare-time project, very indie-style: time streching, spherical playground and other weirdnesses for a kind of light & outwarding strategy game.
How to describe the game?
It's crossing over God games and RTS (Age of Empire like) but while traditional RTS have a lot of micro-management (seek for resources, cost of buildings, click and manage units) here you don't need to take care of this at all: iubes are intelligent and are going to manage "how to do your things" by themselves. You don't control iubes directly but only select what/where/when they have to do.
For example, you can ask them to set any construction at any time without carrying about resources. BUT, you can't know precisely when the constuction will be finished: it all depends on your iubes organization, availability, if they can find near resources, and so on. Thus you've got to closely look at the playground to analyse the situation.
The purpose of those mechanics is to let you focus on the time factor: everything is a question of time. Speed up the timeline if everything goes fine, then pause, think, make a few ajustements, restart... you spend your time asset at your wish and play from x0 to x100 time ratio.
But time streching has a side effect: every single dead iube will come back on night time (ghost are very weak soldier, but... numerous!) and you really have to keep this in mind. The more you enforce the opponent player, the more you're bound to face tons of lost souls! You'd better not start a war at dusk! Of course you can use this day/night sequencing at your advantage.
The aim of all of this is a very simple gameplay, with a real strategic gaming.
But the first video might help to explain the oddities ^^
[youtube]O-tyvgl_TDM[/youtube]
But as a matter of fact, I need your help, too!
1/ In the forthcoming weeks I'd like to enroll a decent amount of beta testers for online battles, thus if you're interested in RTS/God games, please register on the website( http://www.iubes.com)! Maybe we'll meet online in epic iubes battles...
2/ And of course, I'd really enjoy to have any opinion/ comment/ feeling... pro & cons... feel free!
That's all for today! Cheers!
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First up, this looks great. I like the internal spherical world. Very clean looking graphics.
I didn't really understand what the idea of the game was though. Am I supposed to be killing cubes or helping them, or am I trying to help my cubes beat enemy cubes from other players? Or am I trying to get the cubes to survive the "darkness" of night?
But my confusion aside, it still seems like a really good game, more professional than just a spare-time indie game.
I didn't really understand what the idea of the game was though. Am I supposed to be killing cubes or helping them, or am I trying to help my cubes beat enemy cubes from other players? Or am I trying to get the cubes to survive the "darkness" of night?
But my confusion aside, it still seems like a really good game, more professional than just a spare-time indie game.
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Looks very interesting and I'm also a fan of internal spherical worlds !
The gameplay make me think a bit about Towns where you give "general" instructions to your citizens and they do the rest by themselves. I'll fill the application form for the beta test, I'm very excited about this game.
Did you work alone on this project ?
The gameplay make me think a bit about Towns where you give "general" instructions to your citizens and they do the rest by themselves. I'll fill the application form for the beta test, I'm very excited about this game.
Did you work alone on this project ?
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Wow!
This looks great. Made on rainy sunday afternoons? Impressive.
This looks great. Made on rainy sunday afternoons? Impressive.
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Thank's for your first positive impressions!
As asked by PM, this game is actually done using Ogre.
@ mkultra333 : You're right, I edited my post to add a small description of the game, and I'll update the video to be much more explicit about the game. I'm much familiar with C++ than explanations! I'll make some efforts...
@ Etty : Thank's! I work alone on this project from code to musics. Maybe not the best and most efficient method, but that's the way I enjoy my sundays
As asked by PM, this game is actually done using Ogre.
@ mkultra333 : You're right, I edited my post to add a small description of the game, and I'll update the video to be much more explicit about the game. I'm much familiar with C++ than explanations! I'll make some efforts...
@ Etty : Thank's! I work alone on this project from code to musics. Maybe not the best and most efficient method, but that's the way I enjoy my sundays
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Looks great... already registered for beta ... can´t wait for playing
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This looks really cool! I really like the inside-of-a-sphere idea! I like to imagine iubes playes insides the planets of Reus. Just imagine how awesome it would look to see them both inside each other!
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This looks like a really fun game. I'm keen to play but will there be a Linux version?
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Wow, I'm highly impressed!!!!
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Hey, this looks great! Keep up the good work
PS: I don't hate the iubes.. they look cute
PS: I don't hate the iubes.. they look cute
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Looking really good. Like the graphics a lot already...very nice style! Curious to see how it develops, so keep us posted .
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Wow! I love the concept. And the aesthetics!
Startopia meets Dungeon Keeper! My childhood is back!
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Not easy to create some game during spare time ^_^'
And when you think that's almost over... it ain't actually! interface, TCP/IP, gameplay, keyboard layouts (azerty...), autopatcher...
Anyway... Beta will start next week! Everything is fine now. There is almost 400 registered beta testers, I hope it'll rocks
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[youtube]jctnLLaXFvI[/youtube]
2nd video of iubes, a rush 2 minutes battle.
2nd video of iubes, a rush 2 minutes battle.
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Well I have no idea what I just watched, but it sure does look cool.
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I'm in the beta, I played a few minutes but didn't have time to do more. It's another game that "looks" a bit like my game (and have a similar theme) so it's very interesting. I with I had more time to play though...
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I agree completely.cybereality wrote:Well I have no idea what I just watched, but it sure does look cool.
Were you playing with some sort of time compression or is that how fast the game is normally codrer?
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That's a "real time" video. No time compressor.
Fortunately that's fully controllable! At any time you can change speed from x1 to x100. On this video I was playing on average at x25 speed. For example, when everything is quiet or if you're building a lot of stuffs, you'd speed up the game. Then slow down to start a battle...is that how fast the game is normally codrer?
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Just to inform you that iubes is now in open beta. Players have now started online battles
http://www.iubes.com
If you want to give a try, you're welcome!
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Wow, this game looks amazing. I really like the inverse spherical world idea and the aesthetics of the art style. Really nice. I could only dream of making something that looks this good in my spare time haha. You have some crazy talent.
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agree!Wow, this game looks amazing. I really like the inverse spherical world idea and the aesthetics of the art style. Really nice. I could only dream of making something that looks this good in my spare time haha. You have some crazy talent.
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I don't know why I haven't noticed this project before, but this is looking very interesting. That "inverted" sphere world is a great idea!
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[youtube]GlOO_j-FOdE[/youtube]
Thanks for your comments!!
And here comes the official trailer...
Thanks for your comments!!
And here comes the official trailer...
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Very nice trailer! Congrats!