Intelligent Qube

Description

Intelligent Qube is a classic puzzle game for the PlayStation. It is known as Kurushi in Europe and Australia. It received an Excellence Award for Interactive Art at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival.

In the game, the player controls a character who must run around a platform made of cubes, capturing certain cubes as they approach. Cubes are captured by marking a spot on the stage, waiting for the cube to roll on top of it, and then capturing it by deactivating the marked spot.

At the beginning of each level the player is put on a stage that has 23-30 rows. Then 12-16 rows of the stage are raised. Anywhere between 1 and 4 sets of rows comes at the user at one time. On the first stage, 3 rows of length 4 (12 blocks) come at the user at one time. On the last stage, 14 rows of length 7 (98 blocks) come at the user at one time. When all the blocks in one set are destroyed, more blocks are raised -- this happens 3 times, for a total of 4 block risings per level.

If at any time the cubes roll over the player, the cubes rush to the end of the stage and the player is given the same configuration of blocks on the next set with the announcer saying, "Again". Any penalties for letting normal and advantage cubes fall of the stage are incurred. Forbidden cubes also count against the player in this scenario. If the player ever falls off the stage- either by standing on the final row of the stage as it is eliminated, or by being "avalanched" off by rising blocks- the game is over.