Hello all

I want to present you, my work I did for school .


It is a Rubik's Cube game. The gameplay is already working, but I am still at adding features like the Skin Editor and the loading/saving system. I know that this is a very bpring game/idea - but my teacher didn't want to believe me that I could program that

At the moment I am waiting for a resonse for this. The skin Editor itself already works, but since it is useless to create a skin-pack without being able to apply it is really bad...

I am planning to add some effects, and an "Action-Mode" where sometimes the screen gets black-white or the camera starts turning without the player doing something.

For sure I am not a graphical designer, so the graphics are really bad ...

I also have to admit that I never reached the end of the cube, so that i could only test the end when I set the number of turnings of the npc to 2

I also gave some test versions to my friends who really helped me to improve it

So now, some screens:




Done:
# building the cube dynamicly
# good camera movement (based on what my friends said)
# basic turning
# npc that turns the cube
# menu that works with mouse and keyboard
# high- and low-res cube
# loading screen with loading %


Doing at the moment:
# adding a good skin editor
# adding effects
# adding "action mode"


ToDo:
# implenting Helping system with algrythm for the shortest way
# adding better graphics
# somethings that motivate the player



Thanks for reading


Download:

• Usual Speed(slow): Download
• Higher Speed(need above one too): Download
• Executable(higher speed): Download
• For everybody using Vista or 7(slow): Download

how about rubik's 360? i think its a good game idea but script mechanism will be harder.

hm...
i don't want to change the main thing, because it is only a school project

Hehe; prove your teacher wrong. Someday us programmers will rule the world!

Where is the download link? I wanna try it

You should add an option to use different cube sizes It might be easy if your script is very dynamically in detecting the finished cube. So the player can play a 3x3, 4x4, 5x5, ... cube.

implementing an automatic solve-algorythm is a tough job.
I would be really impressed if you could realise that.

(a solver is needed anyhow for a hint system)

Good morning

@Superku: i will change some more small things and than i will Upload it for you

@Captain_Kiyaku: thanks for that idea if i have enough time this weekend i will implent this - but i have to admit that i have another, more important project together with Spike

@Damocles:As i said , i am trying to add this the Problem is that i haven't Found a real algorythm yet... If i can't find One the Next days i am trying it another way (i mean that things where they explain how to get one Block to another position )


For the Next hours i am in school, so i can just search for alghorythm in the web and think about the 5x5,6x6,... thing

Best regards,
rei

I was programming a puzzle game _editor_ with cubes, and, there I used a different entity for each _side_ of a cube.
Maybe, this helps you to find a way to identify which color looks to which side.

Nonetheless, this is not a trivial task. I wish you good concepts to get this managed!

Here some Sourcode and Example sites:

http://www.math.ucf.edu/~reid/Rubik/optimal_solver.html

http://www.wrongway.org/cube/solve.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_the_Rubik%27s_Cube


Developing an Algorythm is a decent task.

Dont be disappointed if you cant get it to work, it
really is a big chunk of development required.

The simplest would be to develope a straigt forward
brute-force recursive algorythm. (its very slow but rather simple)
(testing out all possible moves up to a certain depth of
turns, and returning the chain of moves that
solves the cube at a certain point)

If you need a "demo" algorythm, and just want to
solve the cube no matter what,
just record all previous moves (all to the scramble the cube,
and all following player moves)
Then move them backwards. This way you always solve
the cube, without any AI required....