Monster
Machine
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singleplayer
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5 maps for
CUBE |
With this game, I set out to push the limits of gameplay,
creativity, diversity of environments, and taste. It features custom and
original textures, skyboxes, music and ambiences, with
settings from the natural to the improbable to the
strange. Challenge is based on ability to withstand
extended attack rather than tight resources. It is
aimed at skilled players but moderately skilled players
should be able to beat it with perseverance and trying
various approaches.
Read the review at Underworldfan's |
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The Maps
1 Welcome
... start area
. Monster Test Chamber No. 6
. The Valley of Cubemapping Death
. Column Of The Crystals
2 Stage of Sickness
3 The Key
4 Space
5 The Final Machine
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More screenshots on LEVELS page
from old demo version
beginning of 3rd map (5
KB)
About
;-)
These "machines" are the result of an interest in
finding additional ways to surprise and challenge the player in
Cube. The teleporting monsters in Staligrad 2215 (based in turn
on Doom 2) caught my eye as a means to this end and I took to
overengineering the concept. The results are constructions with a
Rube Goldberg quality ... Rube's original cartoons included
animals and people as part of machines ... so the term monster
machines seemed too fitting. In these machines, the monsters are
the active element. Geometry is used as the controlling element,
often with teleporters and sometimes triggers. Effects include
simulated invisible-triggered monsters, pre-angered monsters,
delayed monsters, and introduction of additional randomness and
complexity.
The above example
relies on teleports; where it says "player goes through
here" is a "double teleport" chamber containing a
teledest for bringing the player in and then the player is
immediately teleported out. Teleports are handy for implementing
these machines because they are one-way, etc. but it is also
possible to avoid using them, at least partially.
These levels also
provide automated control of music, fog and watersubdiv.
Music
Guitar, bass, drum
programming, recording, tracking (MODPlug Tracker) by Bill Spencer. Note these tracks can be played
with Winamp (.it format).
feedback is desired!
email: spentron@draac.com (or use form)
CUBE LEVELS CUBE GUIDE BACK TO MAIN
Copyright 2003 Bill Spencer.
Download Copyright 2003 Bill Spencer (see included notices).
Internet distribution of my maps is to be
only through web sites of my choosing as long as one exists.