or just point a camera at screen.
Topic: Cubiq - A Match-Three Game for Android (Read 43,479 times)
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After playing this game for a while I have one thing that bugs me a little -- the faces on each cube are arranged randomly.
I feel that if the faces had fixed positions like on a dice, then it would take a certain amount of mental skill to decide what way to rotate them in order to get the color you need in the quickest possible way.
They are arranged like dice. In fact, we even have a stage that is themed with dice images.or just point a camera at screen.
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After playing this game for a while I have one thing that bugs me a little -- the faces on each cube are arranged randomly.
I feel that if the faces had fixed positions like on a dice, then it would take a certain amount of mental skill to decide what way to rotate them in order to get the color you need in the quickest possible way.
Pay a bit closer attention to the colors as you rotate the cubes.
The game also hints to the fact that the cubes are like dice. For example: red and blue are always on opposite sides from each other. You can see this because the red face has a blue background and vice versa. And the red and blue meters are next to each other on the side of the screen. So if you get red, but you wanted blue, just rotate it twice in any direction (but both times in the same direction) and you'll get blue.
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After playing this game for a while I have one thing that bugs me a little -- the faces on each cube are arranged randomly.
I feel that if the faces had fixed positions like on a dice, then it would take a certain amount of mental skill to decide what way to rotate them in order to get the color you need in the quickest possible way.
Pay a bit closer attention to the colors as you rotate the cubes.
The game also hints to the fact that the cubes are like dice. For example: red and blue are always on opposite sides from each other. You can see this because the red face has a blue background and vice versa. And the red and blue meters are next to each other on the side of the screen. So if you get red, but you wanted blue, just rotate it twice in any direction (but both times in the same direction) and you'll get blue.
If they were like dice, they would not always be facing me with an upwards image no matter which way I turn them.
If they were like dice, then doing (up, left, down) would rotate the front image clockwise.
If I am looking at two cubes with a red face, I may have to turn one of them left and the other down to find the yellow side. If they were like dice, and facing me with the same orientation on the front image, they would have to be turned the same way.
I don't know if it would be better or worse if they worked like real dice, just pointing out that they do not
. This in fact was intended. In early development of the game we initially had just colored cubes. So when flipping it would always look the same. What is up right would not have mattered. However we then moved onto images and ran into the problem you just described as the function of 'real dice'. It was a judgement call to have the feel of a connect 3 style game with static upright images. 
I don't know if it would be better or worse if they worked like real dice, just pointing out that they do not
.I don't know if it would be better or worse if they worked like real dice, just pointing out that they do notThey are like dice in every respect except that we rotate the image so it's always up-side up. As Durgan said, this was intentional. We thought it would look weird if the images were rotated all directions. It also seemed like a pretty complex thing to ask of players to learn/memorize all the orientations of a cube.
Thanks for the experience, and thanks for having me around.
I still would fail the critters level (13 is a lot when just catching 3 or 4 cubes at a time), I guess, as I'm not ver good at any game (I usually lose interest afer a few seconds) but just by keep playing sometimes helps me pass a level
Oh, and the speed on the Nexus stays fast enough now, even after playing a bit longer.
Very nice cleanup of the graphics.
i'd love to see some video of the game.
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