With the block as the core of the excellent game work, what will everyone think of at the first time? Minecraft? Admittedly, MC is a good piece of work, but there are other good games with a square core.
QUBE is a first-person square world puzzle game, this sketch was originally only the graduation work of three students, and the original puzzle experience received a lot of positive feedback from the community, so they set up their own studio after graduation to further expand QUBE into a commercial work.
From the art design of the game itself, you can feel the style of small-cost production, composed of snow white squares, although there is no fancy or realistic picture, but the minimalist and simple design unexpectedly makes people feel another pure, comfortable, relaxed feeling, the game was originally created with unreal 3 engine, so the simple picture still retains a good texture.
The design of the game itself is simple, focusing only on the core gameplay like other sketches, the player continues to advance in a world of blocks, solving puzzles made of colorful blocks, players can manipulate various colors of blocks, pull red blocks on the ground to make stepping stones, use the blue block bounce feature to pedal high, or guide the sphere to the end to open the trap door.
The puzzles are very diverse and varied, and the difficulty is moderate, and there are few difficult questions, which is a puzzle sketch that is very suitable for relieving the pressure in leisure time. Unfortunately, the game hours are short, and it takes about 3-4 hours to complete the level.
An original puzzle-solving experience
The biggest feature of this work is probably that the puzzle is very novel, no longer a thousand-year-old terrier with a square pressure switch. In the snow-white block world, some blocks have colors, red, yellow, blue, green, purple, these colors of special blocks have special functions, although the blocks can not be moved, but can be manipulated by these blocks to change the terrain, create forward space, or guide the target touchdown to open the mechanism.
The early puzzles are very simple, even if you don't use your brain to try and make mistakes, you can easily pass, and then you will start to gradually increase the difficulty, but most of them will stop at the middle and high difficulty, and then change to new types of puzzles, each chapter will have new things, and the puzzle solving experience is full of changes.
The puzzles of this work are not too brain-burning, only at the end of the level and hidden puzzles will appear more difficult puzzles, puzzle experience for "groping the brain type", because the game often throws out new elements to challenge the player, players will need to constantly re-explore new problem solving tips, observe the mechanism of the operation of the new organ, but the player will suddenly stop after figuring out the trick, change the new trick, and therefore did not introduce too difficult puzzles, sacrificing difficulty in exchange for variability.
Rolling ball puzzle
Most of the puzzles in the early stage are only the use of blocks to open the way and create stepping stones to move themselves forward, and the combination of multi-colored blocks is only the basic element of the puzzles after the puzzle, and the player will begin to introduce different types of puzzles after becoming familiar with it.
For example, to guide the green ball to the designated location, the player can not directly manipulate the green ball, or even block it, must manipulate the block to affect the movement path of the green ball, use the red and yellow square to fill the depression to create a smooth surface, the blue square makes the green ball bounce off the obstacle, the purple block to change the position of other blocks, from the basic problem of a touchdown to the advanced question of multi-segment path arrangement, testing the player's observation, physical prediction, timing judgment.
Dark puzzles
The mid-game environment begins to darken with the plot, and the environment that cannot see the five fingers begins to appear, and the snow-white world is instantly plunged into silent darkness, leaving only a few glowing squares to guide the player forward. The colored blocks are illuminated by pressing the switch on the wall, but only one at a time, which tests the player's memory.
Magnetic puzzles
Most of the puzzles in this series are not difficult, but there is a puzzle that claims to be the most difficult in this game. When the player presses the magnetic switch on the wall, the green square will move straight in this direction, pushing the green square towards the contact white beam, refracting the green beam to hit the specified block. How to cleverly move multiple green squares to the correct position, test the player's space planning and arrangement.
Beam reflection puzzle
It's almost a whole new kind of puzzle, which is not very relevant to the previous puzzles, but it is very intuitive to use various mirrors to reflect the beam of light to a specified position, which is also very common in other puzzle games. At first, you only need to move the mirror to adjust the direction of the beam reflection, and then you need to mix the color light, similar to the concept of the previous dyeing block, you must mix the beam of the specified color through the dyeing crystal to pass the pass.
Ball of Light Puzzle
This part of the puzzle is also quite interesting, the player can create a color block, after absorbing a certain color ball of light, you can dye on the white block, to create the color square. Unfortunately, there are only a few designated blocks for stainable blocks. This part can be said to be a sublimated version of the basic problems of the block, with other types of puzzles is quite challenging, while testing the ability of spatial thinking, physical prediction, flexibility and other abilities, which is the peak of the challenge in the game, and also means that the game is coming to an end.
summary
QUBE is a highly successful puzzle piece, with a pure world of blocks that has a simple and unpretentious comfort, and although it doesn't have gorgeous graphics, its focus on the core gameplay is quite successful.
Although it is a low-cost environment shaping, the changeable puzzle solving experience makes it completely impossible to feel the monotony and rigidity during the playing process, and it is very interesting to create a changeable brain challenge with the most simple visual experience.