Cube (game)

Cube is a free, open source Quake-like first-person shooter computer game that runs on Windows, Linux, Free BSD and Mac OS X. It uses OpenGL and SDL. Cube features both single-player and multiplayer gameplay.

1 What is Cube?
- 1.1 Gameplay Style
  - 1.1.1 Single Player Gameplay
  - 1.1.2 Multi Player Gameplay
2 External link

What is Cube?

Cube is a game engine written by Wouter Van Oortmersson and according to the SourceForge.net project page, is under a ZLIB license.

Gameplay Style

The single-player gameplay in Cube is similar to games like Doom and Quake, however, it's more like Doom (all Cube maps are set on a 2D grid of cubes, and each cube has its own vertex offset, floor/ceiling height value, etc). Currently, as of the May 22, 2004 release, there are roughly 90 SP (SinglePlayer) and DM (DeathMatch) maps, with more possibly in the next release.

Multiplayer, on the other hand, is more-or-less a gibfest (if you want to call it that) and is very fast paced and almost lag free thanks to its unique netcode (called ENet) that uses a fat client/thin server model.

Single Player Gameplay

Single Player gameplay includes two types:

A plain single-player mode (mode -1), which is a lot like Doom, in that items and monsters do not respawn, and have a fixed position; and a deathmatch-style mode (where there's usually a fixed number of monsters, 10 per skill level) and items respawn.

Multi Player Gameplay

Multiplayer gameplay includes 15 modes:

Free For All: (mode 0), often used for prewar and setting up teams
Cooperative Edit: Players can edit a map with others in real time. (mode 1)
Free For All: non-teamplay, meant for ffa and duel games (mode 2)
Free For All: Teamplay, only allied with those whose team variable is the same as yours.
Instagib: All players spawn with full rifle ammo and 1 health. No items are available. (mode 4, non-teamplay ; mode 5, teamplay)
Effciency: all players have 2 ammo packs each with 256 health (mode 6, non-teamplay ; mode 7, teamplay)
Insta Arena: when the player is fragged (killed), he/she stays dead until there's only one player remaining, and then a new round begins; each player only has the rifle and fist;
Tatics Arena: Like Insta Arena, but each player randomly gets two out of the four possible weapons (with fist), and two ammo packs each.

While playing, type 't' and then /mode <mode number here> to change the mode when the next game begins

External link

Categories: First-person shooters