How to Play

The cube has six faces, each divided into nine sections.

Hit that scramble button, then rotate the cube until the faces are matching.

You can rotate the faces: front, back, top, bottom, left or right.

You can also rotate the entire cube to see it from different angles.

There are custom buttons at the bottom so you can save a set of moves and do it again anytime with one click.

You can undo moves, and there is a hidden auto-solve button.

Your move count and a list of previous moves are provided.

Use the mouse to freely rotate the cube in any direction.

Use the keyboard shortcuts to quickly rotate any cube face.

Enter screensaver mode for a relaxing rotating cube background.

Screenshots

Trying all of the different textures is one of the most fun things about this game. Some are hard to see, some are funny, some are beautiful when scrambled. There is even a beta feature that will let you create and import your own textures.

Splash Screen

Start with a standard 3x3 cube

Bright Colors

A bright and shiny cube

Materials Cube

Made of wood, stone, carpet, and other textures. Auto-scramble makes it easy to replay.

Broken Cube

Don't work so hard or you'll end up with a busted cube

Jeweled Cube

Choose square jewels, round gems, or multi-shaped colors

The Elements

Wood, sky, grass, fire, earth, and ocean. Master the elements!

Skintones

From light to dark. Similar to the grayscale cube. Very interesting when scrambled...

Stained Glass

Dizzying, yet beautiful. Quite tricky to solve.

Double Stack

6x6 for those wanting a real challenge!

Videos

See RCube in action with these videos.

Development

As a C# project, this will only run on Windows.

Texturing

Debug Texture

Testing a Move

Textures

I used a temporary texture with numbers to see where the sides move when testing.

The Cube

Mesh View

Cool Mistake

The cube is a 3D mesh built from vertices and textured. Once there was a bug in the part of the code that sets the backface culling, and the result was a cool looking ghost cube. I decided to turn that bug into a feature :)

Coding

Layout

Load and Rotate

The layout and the code were done in Visual Studio.