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To be filed under the "simple but highly addictive" category is this latest game by Max Abernethy of flecko.net. Simplistic but challenging is Cubefield, a strangely beautiful dodge-the-obstacles type of game hosted at Newgrounds.
You are but a grey arrow, controlled by the left and right arrow keys, travelling at a speed at which you have no control and through a gigantic plane dotted with cubes that you must avoid. Sound simple? It is until the action begins to speed up and the cubes become more plentiful. As with most of these games, your score is solely dependent on how long you survive.
Analysis: While the action does not stop until you die, the game feels very much like it has levels for a number of reasons. The first is that every so often you are drawn into a tunnel-like system from which you cannot escape. Emerging from the tunnel gives the impression of a brand new level. The second is that after a while the game changes colour scheme and style. This gives the impression of an even larger new level. Also, every so often the arrow speed increases. These all give the game the feeling of being leveled, even if there is no explicit new level indication.
The 3D is quite impressive, and the fact that the game plane leans into turns is a nice touch that helps increase the sense of immersion. Although there is no high score list, the "Top Score" feature remembers your personal best and is useful to know how you're doing, as is the press-p-for-pause function. Also, on the starting page you can press space, as opposed to needing to click New Game, to play. Little features like this help to make a game something that you might be willing to play for hours, as opposed to minutes. Max does not include music or sound effects, because as he says, it's nice to listen to your own MP3s as you game. Overall, an excellent play and highly addictive. Click.
jay adds: Although I enjoyed playing this game, the decision to omit sounds was a bit short-sighted and reduced my overall satisfaction with it. I say short-sighted because the simple inclusion of a sound-off button can accomplish the same thing for people who wish to listen to their own mp3's, while giving someone without any music to play something to listen to. Even better would be to have sound effects on a separate control from the music so that the sound effects can be heard along with any mp3 the game player is listening to, if desired. I am also disappointed that a player's Top Score is not saved locally, a relatively simple feature to add that pays a sizable dividend.
For Flash game developers interested in the 3D techniques used in this game, Max has made some of the Actionscript 2.0 source code available with an explanation of how it works on his site. Finding that page is also how I discovered that Max is (was) a neighbor of mine at the University of Rochester, just a couple of miles from me. He is also the author of Madness Interactive, an over-the-top violent game released back in 2003 and that received critical acclaim. A review of it does not appear on Jayisgames due to the level of graphic violence it contains, though you can download it, along with source code, at Max's site.
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213325 is my high score! Beat it!
Posted by: Ricky | January 14, 2006 5:58 PM
Wow, that was pretty cool.
Posted by: dutch981 | January 14, 2006 6:07 PM
419725
Posted by: Rob S | January 14, 2006 6:31 PM
hey! this is like that game.. Jet Slalom except that JetSlalom has triangle thingies instead of cubes!
Posted by: hellokittyfan
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January 14, 2006 6:32 PM
I got a highscore of 215855!! lol i beat u ricky
Posted by: hellokittyfan
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January 14, 2006 6:38 PM
High score: 696XXX Went through 3 speed ups.
I thought the coolest color scheme was the black blocks on the blank background. Looked like some Matrix scene!
Posted by: Dave | January 14, 2006 6:51 PM
A problem I had with it is that, after passing the tunnel the first time, you can just hold right or left and you'd never get hit. I broke a million that way.
Posted by: Steve | January 14, 2006 7:38 PM
A little nice bug...
Posted by: Alexandre (d) | January 14, 2006 8:00 PM
499170
I wonder what the other color scheme's (level themes?) are.
I died on the black boxes. darn splitting section =P
Posted by: Harukio
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January 14, 2006 8:03 PM
Jetslalom was an awesome game, back in the days when Java ruled the online gaming world. Even though the graphics were a bit more rudimentary than this game, there were the checkpoint feature, the daytime feature, the different courses, and the explosion sound when you crashed. I liked that game a bit more than this one. Have you seen that one, Jay?
Posted by: Popsman | January 14, 2006 9:03 PM
lol alexandre i figured that out too! i got up to like 2 million points or more!
Posted by: hellokittyfan
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January 14, 2006 9:11 PM
Using the hack posted above the themes are:
Grey floor, yellow/red blocks, white sky
Black floor, matrix-y blocks, matrix star sky
White floor, black clocks, white sky
White floor, pink blocks, weird stuff in the sky
Posted by: momentum | January 14, 2006 9:14 PM
No, Popsman, I don't believe I have. Do you know of a link for Jetslalom?
Posted by: jay
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January 14, 2006 9:23 PM
lol i beat all of ya 964160
Posted by: troy | January 14, 2006 11:23 PM
links to two versions of jetslalom for the jaymeister:
http://www.kdn.gr.jp/~shii/java/JSlalom/
http://www.freeclassicgames.com/arcade/slalom/index.shtml
Cubefield is still a very fun game to play, though.
Posted by: Popsman | January 15, 2006 1:35 AM
Thanks, Popsman. =)
I will give it a try just as soon as I deliver this AJAX & SVG 2-player board game for class. It's due Sunday at midnight(!) Yikes.
Posted by: jay
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January 15, 2006 1:42 AM
a paperweight plus a day of uni = score of 800 million hehe, it didnt even have time to generate the blocks anymore, just blank the whole time... appart from the wierd cloud things, infact at that point it wasnt even possible to hit anything... invulnerable... but i guess that stops people registering those bogus scores seeing as they cant end the game ;)
Posted by: mongle | January 15, 2006 2:01 AM
Pretty good. But, like Jay said, it would have been much better with music. Preferably that sped up and changed styles according to what was happening in the game.
Posted by: Wulfo
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January 15, 2006 4:34 AM
Agreed, Wulfo. That would be an excellent touch and it would improve immersion even more.
By the way, I sent Max an email about the 'cheat' that people have discovered, and here is his response:
Posted by: jay
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January 15, 2006 5:10 AM
It took a bit of dying right away to get the hang of the speed i moced at, but once I did, it was pretty enjoyable.
1. it would have beenn nice to have some kind of sound...back ground music or sound effects.
2. It also would have been nice to have a keyboard button to press for a new game. I use the same hand for my mouse and my arrow keys, so i have to click new game with my mouse, then quickly move my hand to my arrows. It would be nice to just be able to click "n" on my keyboard instead...so my fingers would be ready on the arrow keys. Just a small thing, but if there's going to be a "next version"...thought I would add my thoughts.
Posted by: glommie | January 15, 2006 11:24 AM
Hmm. I don't get the little triangle to show me where "I" am. I think it makes the game a lot harder.
Posted by: AP | January 15, 2006 2:43 PM
glommie- somebody hasn't read the review! Both your points are mentioned in there already. I do agree with the first point though, and the second point is already in the review: press space. Just thought you might like to know. ;-)
Posted by: grant0
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January 15, 2006 3:42 PM
I was just going to come here to mention Jet Slalom. I haven't played it in years but I like it far better than Cubefield -- not just the day/night cycle, but the gameplay: this may sound silly for a game so rudimentary, but with Jet Slalom I really "feel like I'm flying" and that the jet moves much faster without being more difficult. Cubefield is more irritating experience, and despite the vector graphics isn't as pretty.
Now, when someone creates one of these with all three dimensions, then I'll be sold. Let me fly over trees and under bridges.
Posted by: donald | January 15, 2006 5:04 PM
AP- yeah, that would make it harder! What browser are you using? Also, do you have Flash 8?
Posted by: grant0
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January 15, 2006 6:14 PM
grant0, that was indeed the problem. Upgrading from Flash 7 to Flash 8 (in Firefox) resurrected my little triangle dude. Much easier this way.
Posted by: AP | January 15, 2006 6:37 PM
Now that I've gotten to play the game a bit, there is one thing that feels a little off to me. I keep expecting the controls to have a little momentum to them. It seems strange that after banking hard one direction that letting up on the key just stops the turning, and that it's just as easy to head off in the other direction. I find myself often tapping the opposite control in a perceived need to "correct" the course.
(Clearly not a complaint, just an observation about a toy I'm quite enjoying)
Posted by: AP | January 15, 2006 6:41 PM
649730 is my new high score! Beat it!
Posted by: Ricky | January 15, 2006 7:09 PM
i stopped at 2019425 beacuse its so boring when you can cheat like that
Posted by: hoffy | January 15, 2006 9:19 PM
The bug is worse seeded than that. Eventually you don't have to hold right at all because the blocks move so fast they just skip right by your cursor. My score is 46,517,590 and rising and I'm not pressing anything.
Posted by: Andrew | January 16, 2006 1:35 AM
Not that different to 3D Deathchase for the ZX speccy. Now that one was a classic.
Posted by: Deej | January 16, 2006 9:11 AM
Hoffy, I think you're right. There's no action when you cheat. It gets boring.
Posted by: Ricky | January 16, 2006 11:14 AM
My first score is 258,165. For some reason I can't see a grey arrow when i play so its a lot harder.
Posted by: Rpodnee | January 16, 2006 12:30 PM
i died at 604,730 like two seconds before the third speed up, and i was so excited to see what the field after the black and white zone would be
Posted by: Daniel | January 16, 2006 3:05 PM
Rpodnee- go get Flash 8 now!
Posted by: grant0
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January 16, 2006 6:24 PM
umm.. it wont let me play it says:
Error - We do not allow direct links to this page because it bypasses the author credits and information.
Please go to this page to find the content you are looking for. Please go back and try again.
Posted by: KagomeGirl36
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January 16, 2006 6:39 PM
499490 w/o cheating =)
Posted by: Sean L
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January 17, 2006 9:00 AM
912,415 without cheating. after the pink field it goes back to the beginning.
Posted by: Daniel | January 18, 2006 12:15 AM
Lol i am bad at this game, I only scored 473620 without cheats lols. :)
Posted by: Annie | February 13, 2006 9:57 AM
503230 hit the side on the black/white level
Posted by: Distroy | April 1, 2006 4:30 PM
916,265. Level 5 just in sight of the second set of tunnels.
Posted by: pas7680 | April 5, 2006 8:16 AM
Just broke 1,000,000 - i'll give it up now.
Posted by: pas7680 | May 9, 2006 8:23 AM
hey! im really confused. whats the cheat for cubefield?
Posted by: marina | June 13, 2006 11:15 PM
Whooo! 499055!!
Posted by: PandaKnight
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June 18, 2006 3:31 PM
I found a little trick that makes the game a bit easier...
Posted by: Devin M. | September 3, 2006 5:18 PM
i dont get the cheat.
Posted by: help | November 4, 2006 2:13 PM
what is the cheat for cubefield? i tried clicking the "show spoiler" button but it didnt open anything...could someone explain it in text please?
Posted by: Bman | November 9, 2006 4:38 PM
Yea my score is 748449 and the last color i think is white with pink blocks
Posted by: Ryan | November 16, 2006 8:07 PM
I tried the "hold the right key down" trick... But it didn't work! what am I doing wrong?
Posted by: Rose | November 22, 2006 7:15 PM
I got 976789 beat that the colour turns all black and the boxes have a white lining and so does the space craft
Posted by: muary | November 26, 2006 1:41 PM
I got 4196375 using cheat but then i got bored and stopped at that
Posted by: Brendon | December 4, 2006 8:06 AM
i got to 7006885 beat that!
Posted by: Cleon | January 26, 2007 5:32 PM
i got 9008501 i like to see people beat that.... hahaha...
Posted by: douglas | February 7, 2007 6:41 PM
752815 i thinks its a respectable score plus i lost because i blinked no joke
Posted by: dan | March 8, 2007 6:51 PM
This is a real score 507725.
Posted by: LAMB | March 9, 2007 9:24 PM
ok i beat most of you all that is if you didnt cheat i got 1035780 HA!!! 6 speed up and i didnt cheat :)
Posted by: haha | March 20, 2007 10:07 PM
I beat all of you without any cheats 1019665
Posted by: Marissa | May 8, 2007 3:06 PM
please answer!!! what is the cheat??
Posted by: help | June 10, 2007 9:32 PM
268190, ha ricky!
Posted by: Janey | June 20, 2007 9:47 PM
7,000,679! Ha beat that!
Posted by: Ell | June 23, 2007 11:57 AM
How do you use the cheat?? I have tried various ways but it never works.
Posted by: That Guy | July 21, 2007 3:39 PM
Ahh, only 1,001,149
Posted by: Amber | August 13, 2007 9:54 PM
my top score is 43 764 127, and i got it photo with my mobilephone (i cheat)
Posted by: juve | August 18, 2007 12:54 PM
499,345...my highscore
Posted by: Anonymous | September 27, 2007 8:06 PM
I'm trying this bug, but I can't get it to work. When exactly are you supposed to start [holding the RIGHT arrow key?]
Posted by: andrew | September 29, 2007 2:29 PM
mine is 970225 and i hate the 2nd red,orange, and yellow level
Posted by: KC | October 1, 2007 2:05 PM
im on 7737000000 using the cheat and still going.
i think this may be the highest score ever
Posted by: jif | October 7, 2007 7:12 AM
how do you use the cheat?
Posted by: Peter | October 22, 2007 3:17 AM
yeah i got 1,786,285.
Posted by: logan | October 29, 2007 10:33 PM
Here is Information on the Cheat.
You must press the RIGHT arrow key as soon as possible after the first tunnel. It took me a while to get it and I tried the game on a bunch of different sites but I got it to work on this one:
http://www.dabontv.com/game63.html
Happy Cheating!
Posted by: Cheat Master | October 31, 2007 11:32 AM
omg thats so stupid! i did the cheat and it worked until i got to the second black level, score of 1,380,660 and then i ran into a cube! i swear i never let go of the arrow key!
Posted by: vbgal3 | November 8, 2007 9:25 PM
I found that the cheat only works on the website. Has any1 got the cheat to work on the downloadable version?
Posted by: Jack yorkinson | November 21, 2007 2:31 AM
i used the glitch and i am on 215******* i cant count the rest its moving to fast!!!! i wont stop the blocks keep wizzing past
Posted by: ipy | November 23, 2007 8:14 PM
hahaha 687908 beet it
4 speed ups 4th being a pink backround with flighing cloud like objects realy goood
Posted by: Anonymous | November 29, 2007 1:55 PM
top score 732,565
Posted by: Travis bird | December 4, 2007 2:17 PM
833,785 is my high score, beat that guys
Posted by: branon | December 11, 2007 6:08 PM
Mine is 55605
Posted by: Anonymous | December 18, 2007 10:21 AM
this game is sooooo easy!!!!! I got like 6 million points and could have gotten more but i got bored. There are several different ways to do it but the best way to rack up points without getting bored is every time that you die, push the space bar immediately before the new game button comes up and it will start the game over but you will still have all of your points(but you have to press space bar RIGHT AFTER you die)
Posted by: Laura` | December 26, 2007 10:44 PM
my high score is 159667687...no cheats!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: master of disasta | January 4, 2008 11:20 PM
pplllease sombody help me
is there anyway anybody can give me a way of getting a really high score on cubefield on mindjolt games of facebook
it would be very much appriciated
THANKS
Posted by: JELLYFISH
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January 17, 2008 4:05 PM
highest score: 501315:)
beat thaatt <3
Posted by: brooke | January 28, 2008 10:45 AM
i had tape on the right key lol
i got 190362885 ok it the ist time because i forgot it was running and opened a new page. it then crashed.
Posted by: Nikki | February 20, 2008 11:56 AM
I have
9,700,000 points now
and its running without me!
lmao ownt, glitches ftw
Posted by: Samp! | February 22, 2008 4:16 PM
yeah does anyone know a way to cheat in cubefield on the mindjolt application on facbeook??
i know how to do the right key thing but it doesn't work on the application
does anyone know a way to get a higher score another way?
please help, and thanks so much in advance!
Posted by: kelli | February 25, 2008 3:29 PM
1,072,030 Hacks.... i win
http://i27.tinypic.com/2a6t9ms.jpg
Posted by: Anonymous | February 28, 2008 7:42 PM
ahaha. my high score is 499490. beat THAT
Posted by: taylor | February 29, 2008 1:01 AM
I beat all of you...1085555 without any cheats or hacks!!
Posted by: Anonymous | March 8, 2008 12:15 AM