Friday, July 19, 2013

World^3


 
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I recall the hashtag appearing on my twitter feed. #CubeWorld. Started out as a trickle and soon became a thundering onslaught of palpable excitement and exclamation over this game. First thought, judging a book by it's title, was it was some sort of Minecraft clone/wannabe. I headed over to the game's site, Picroma, and my suspicions were almost confirmed. If Minecraft is, visually, the NES version of a game, then Cube World is easily the SNES version of that same game. Higher resolution cubes! Complex landscapes, flora, and fauna are much easier to render when built with smaller chunks. It's single player! And multiplayer! I dove deeper to determine if the juice was worth the squeeze. I determined that... well you'll just have to read on to find out.