[Release] The Cube v0.3.0

jaxx0rr · New Employee Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

http://forums.thinkingwithportals.com/dload.php?action=file&file_id=235

here are some screenshots:

and I think the map might be a bit too difficult so you'l prolly need this walkthrough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKISta1uh5g
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1hcoNjYWtM

rellikpd · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 9:06 pm Post subject:

i liked the movie (both of them really) but don't know how that would translate to portal. We shall see i guess. also, you need to put more info than just a download link. screen shots and such.
DO IT!
i'll try d/l'ing/playing this tomarow Razz

jaxx0rr · New Employee Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

Well I dont want to get anyones hopes up.. the map is large and kind of hard, and maybe a bit frustrating at the beginning but the movie was no walk in the park either..

Doomsday192 · Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:49 pm Post subject:

i honestly cant figure out what to do...

every time i get into a room, the doors lock and something in the room kills me...

is there a certain path you have to take?

i dont wanna use the walkthru just yet...

edit: nevermind, watching the walkthru

jaxx0rr · New Employee Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

Bulska · Test Supervisor Joined: 16 Nov 2007 Posts: 174

Not really aperture style is it? (from your screenshots
Using floor textures for the walls and such...
(this is just something I'm always hitting about, graphics T_T)

I haven't played it yet, but the puzzles look challanging.

infernet89 · Superior Participant Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 61

pestchamber · Loves Cake Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 252 Location: Earth

i dont really know about using floor textures on the walls.. anyways it looks nice and it also looks like you worked on it 4ever so keep it up ...

jaxx0rr · New Employee Joined: 11 Feb 2008 Posts: 4

well the idea of the floor textures on the walls is that this map has nothing to do with portal except the engine..
..it's about the movie "the cube"
and it tries to show (even if in a bad way) that you can do so mutch more than just the glados story with the portal concept..

Kokoyote · New Employee Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 13

I give you a lot of credit for designing a infuriatingly difficult and intricate puzzle box. I just finally finished, had to look at the walkthrough video on a couple of rooms, after being just completely stumped (specifically, the room with jagged walls and no apparent place to put a portal, and the room with the giant fish - I had no idea what that button was doing).

It is very different from Portal as a game, not just for visual design reasons, but also just the general atmosphere of an environment that really just wants to kill you, drive you insane and keep you trapped rather than one that guides you from one task to the next. It goes beyond the level of what would be frustrating on many maps to the point where the frustration turns into a deranged anger at the damned cube and a fierce need to beat it somehow.