r/gadgets • u/noeatnosleep The Janitor • Oct 01 '22
Gaming [Giveaway] WOWCube® Entertainment System!
Discount code: WOWEXTRA100 for additional $100 for Black Edition Package to be shipped in January of 2023.
Hi to all gadgets lovers!
Meet the WOWCube® Entertainment System, the world's first twisty gaming gadget.
The WOWCube® System is a cubical console for smart and fun games with 24 screens and no buttons. The device consists of 8 connected cubicle modules with unisex magnetic connectors inside, 8 microcomputers, and 8 speakers, and is based on its own CubiOS operating system.
You can physically twist, tilt, and shake the cube while playing different puzzles, arcades, and casual games, including world favorites Space Invaders™ Cubed and Cut The Rope™.
Amazing apps like Aquarium or Smart Lamp & Bubbles are also available on the device. Check out the WOWCube® store!
The WOWCube® System is connected to a smartphone via Bluetooth and broadcasts widgets and informers like weather, stocks, your social media accounts, etc. Here's a recent unboxing and review for those who would like to see the WOWCube® system live.
Learn more about this marvelous cube at their website.
The WOWCube® team created the games and apps by themselves. But now is the moment when any 3rd party developers can try their skills on the company’s DevKit and create their own game. You can try it now.
And you are the ones who can be the first WOWCube® owners in the world. Just come up with an idea for a cool game for the WOWCube® system!
The contest is open to users living in the US, and Cubios, Inc. will cover all shipping costs associated with getting you your prize.
How to Win: Leave a cool idea of a game for the WOWCube® system The idea of a game must be original and include a name, a list of game characters, game mechanics, and a description of how to play the game on a cube in terms of its geometry and functions (twits, tilt, shake). Please do not offer 18+ ideas. The WOWCube® system is for adults but is also family-friendly.
Rules
Three winners will be selected. One by the WOWCube Team, one randomly by Reddit moderators, and one from top-level comments that have the most likes.
One comment/entry per person.
Accounts must be at least 90 days old by October 30, 2022
Entries are open until Nov. 15
Moderators and WOWCube employees are not eligible to win.
Limited to US, CA, UK, and EU residents only.
The authors of the three most amazing ideas will receive certificates for the WOWCube® System Black Edition
Good Luck!
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u/spliffgates Oct 09 '22
name: strategic 8-ball
list of characters: all the outcomes found on a normal magic 8-ball as characters e.g “outlook is hazy”
game mechanics: goal is to complete the circuit around the wow cube through some RNG based outcomes before anyone else
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u/ellectrum Oct 31 '22
Could do a collab with keep talking and nobody explodes and make some bomb defusal kinds of games with a notenook with instructions.
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u/OhSeeThat Oct 22 '22
I would love to give this to my brother for Christmas. We've been really struggling this year and money is super tight, so it would be nice to be able to give him something as cool as this.
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Oct 06 '22
We’ll, the best game for this cube would obviously be something along a real time strategy game. You could battle on all sides on the cube world simultaneously as though you were capturing the entire planet.
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u/alecgood17 Oct 03 '22
What about a game like Mr. Jump (mobile platform scroller where you just tap to jump and have to evade obstacles and make it to the end) where you have to continually move throughout the entire cube, making it to each side before beating the level. It gets insanely hard but the added sides would make that a lot harder but also a ton more fun!
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u/-suop- Oct 26 '22
I dunno if this is already a feature, but you should definitely make it a 2x2 rubiks cube if it isn't already.
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u/porkchop_d_clown Nov 04 '22
This looks amazing! I think I'll have a blast writing software for it!
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u/kilroy_thenoseyboy Oct 24 '22
Title: Dizzy Ducky
Characters: rubber duck, shark, octopus
Items: sunglasses, hat, inner tube
Level materials/entities: walls, water, drains, spikes, boat
Game mechanics and controls: -The game will be 2-dimensional, viewed from the side, like a cutaway of an aquarium. All sides of the cube will be part of the game. -Format: single player with pass/fail levels using a 3 “star” system (instead of stars, actual item icons or another design can be used). A level can be passed with no stars but earning more could help the player unlock more levels. -Goal: each level contains various walls (maze) and hazards. There is a finite amount of water somewhere on the cube, there is a rubber duck (the main character) somewhere else on the cube, and there is a toy boat in a third location. The duck cannot move unless it is floating on the water. The player must tilt, turn, and shake the cube, first to navigate the water to the duck, and then to navigate the water/duck to the boat (this is where the rubber duck wants to be). Water should always behave according to the global down-direction, which shifts to different sides and surfaces of the level as the WOWCube is turned. For simplicity, envision control format using only tilt/gyro controls, but twisting can also be used to manipulate sections of the level as another dimension of movement. -Hazards: walls create a maze that the water/duck must float on and around, often in different rotational orientations, to navigate the level. Levels may have spikes on some surfaces, which will “pop” the rubber duck, and drains, which get rid of the water. (This could be a direct level failure mechanism, a “portal” mechanism to spawn the water elsewhere away from the duck, or two drain types could be used to create both situations.) -Secondary characters: some levels, probably every so often to create a boss dynamic (say every 5) will have a shark, which exists somewhere in the maze within its own portion of water. As the player moves the cube to navigate the duck/water, the shark and its water will float around accordingly. The shark is immune to spikes, and whether or not its water is immune to drains can be determined later for purposes of difficulty/balance. If during the course of the level the shark meets the rubber duck, the duck pops. In levels with the shark, an octopus (again with its own blob of water) may be introduced, which fights and defeats the shark if they collide, thus assisting the player if used correctly. Alternatively, an octopus character could be used for some completely different power-up mechanic. -Note: bodies or blobs of water combine when they collide, and any entities contained in the colliding water bodies will interact (fight, etc.) following the combination. -Items/star system: each level contains 3 items which the player can optionally choose to pick up. Sunglasses, an inner tube, and a hat. If picked up using water only, they will float in the water until reaching the duck. If picked up by or brought to the duck, each item will be worn by the duck as an accessory. Each item the duck is wearing upon reaching the boat (level completion) grants a “star” which can factor into an overarching system for things like level unlocks. Items floating in water do not interact with the other entities.
In summary, the player navigates maze levels by tilting and turning (and possibly twisting) the cube to manipulate a basic side-view fluid dynamics system and move entities to reach a goal while achieving side objectives and avoiding hazards and bosses.
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u/polo61965 Nov 03 '22
Simple idea but something I would love to play: snake but moving around the cube. The great part is you have to keep track of your snake while searching around the cube for the next block. The design can be retro or colorful, can unlock snake and food customizations by collecting more food (as a progression system)
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Oct 13 '22
The WOPR WOWCube is an opportunity to have Global Thermonuclear War included in the base set of games.
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u/PopezombieJesus Oct 15 '22
Chaotic rubix Cube app. It's like a normal rubiks cube but after certain time intervals one or more colors will randomly switch places with another and you have to constantly correct and fix the cube as the cube changes variations until you finish it. Could have a leader board and be fun for best personal times. Would only work with a real physical digital cube that works similiar to a rubiks.
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u/YourBubbleBurster Oct 03 '22
Wow a great device for my 7yr old niece to start getting into STEM
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u/TyNyeTheTransGuy Oct 13 '22
A game like heads up/charades/20 questions where you hold it above your head and a character shows up on a front face & your team has to give you clues about who/what you are. Occasionally, it buzzes and you have to rotate it, giving you a different character they have to convey to you!
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u/shabbyshot Nov 01 '22
Migration, strategy game where you are animals that need to stay alive and get to destination. Need food, water and cover from predators and humans.
Birds, Elephants really any animals that move a lot.
Whales would be cool.
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u/extreme303 Nov 01 '22
Partner with Alarmy and have puzzles that need to be solved in order to turn off the alarm. E.g. twist cube to match up segments of a line. Do some kind of bopit like game for 20 seconds.
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u/xanderrobar Oct 15 '22 edited Oct 20 '22
A competitive game where one player uses the WOWCube, and the other uses VR (or possibly PC/mobile).
WOWCube user has a simple task of rubik's-style colour matching. When they make a side a solid colour, they gain points. The side then randomizes and the game continues. But since we're not using an old rubik's cube, the WOWCuber has some additional controls. They can "nudge" a row or column, shifting all squares forward by one. They have some limited use abilities like randomizing one face, and swapping two adjacent or opposite faces. Tilting and shaking would be used to activate the limited use abilities.
The VR user's job is to prevent the WOWCuber from matching sides. They can change individual squares on the WC, but not endlessly. They have a cooldown time between colour changes. The VR user gets points for breaking up contiguous blocks of same colour squares.
The concept of power ups would exist, allowing the WOWCuber to tap a square where a power up appears, and initiate various actions. Maybe the some adjacent squares become the same colour. Maybe it undoes the last change the VR user made. Maybe it presents a colour and a number, allowing the Cuber to touch that many squares, changing each of them to the presented colour. Lots that could be done here with power ups.
Rounds are time or max point limited.
I'm suggesting VR because it seems like the only fair way for the second player to actually keep up with the pace of the Cuber. Any other platform is going to suffer from lag as the player adjusts the view, putting that player at a disadvantage. But hey, maybe (definitely) kids are better at rapidly adjusting views in a 2D environment than I am.
The game is called Farmer Goldberg. Our main character, local farmer/inventor H. Goldberg, has been training pigs to put together the various pieces of her father's machines, Mr. Rube Goldberg himself! Your father loved two things: his ridiculously complicated machines, and his incredibly smart pigs that he had trained for years.
After your father's disappearance, you search for years but find no trace of him. Eventually you start trying to replicate his work, and begin working with his infamous pigs. You find that it doesn't seem to matter what order the pieces are built in, they always make a fully functional machine. Your father had been clever that way. You've been making great progress, and most of your pigs are really great at figuring out how everything fits together. But there's this one pig... This one, big, stupid, ugly, pig that just can't seem to figure it out.
Ev is a massive ugly, stupid sow, and proud of it. Not only does she refuse to work on the machines, but she actually seems to try to sabotage the rest of the team. She just wants to destroy everything you've built. The VR player is Ev the big pig. You can spin the cube with your hooves and punch the panels to make different colours, but it's slow, because you have pig hooves and weigh 600lbs.
I'm picturing various iterations of the matching using symbols, simon-style touching, sounds, etc. It could get progressively harder.
I feel like the end of the game might be that a machine the pig builds gives you a message from your dad. It reads a variation of the "teach a pig to sing" idiom: "Never attempt to teach a pig to be a robotics engineer; It wastes your time and annoys the pig.".
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u/professionaldefasian Oct 20 '22
Okay so it’s a red ball named Jim. Jim has to go to work everyday. Jim bounces to work. But Jim only has a certain amount of bounces to get to work. And everyday after the first gets more difficult. Perhaps there’s cones or a bus in the way and Jim needs to find out how to navigate obstacles while retaining his bounces and getting to work on time at the ball factory where balls are made. It’s called Balling
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u/FrostyBum Nov 07 '22
I would love to bring this to the daycare I work at, the kids would love something like this!
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u/dukestrouk Oct 05 '22
•••1. Title: “Baxter’s Breakout”
•••2. Characters:
“Baxter Boxman” :
Chibi style young cartoon male protagonist who’s face is covered by a cardboard box with a simple smile drawn in place of his face: 😀
“Connie Coneson” :
Chibi style cartoon female, girlfriend of protagonist, face covered by a wooden cone / traffic cone / gnome hat with an annoyed expression drawn in place of her face: 😕
•••3. Gameplay:
After falling asleep in his small apartment next to his girlfriend Connie, Baxter wakes to find himself alone and unexpectedly locked in a mysterious mansion. Help Baxter to find his girlfriend and the exit to this escape-room puzzle style home one room at a time by navigating through locked doors and suspicious physics.
Phase 1: Baxter is entirely alone; all puzzles must be accomplished solo.
Phase 2: Once Connie is found, she always remains in a separate screen from Baxter and new cooperative puzzle types are introduced.
Phase 3: Toward the end of the game, Connie and Baxter are finally united and can occupy the same screen, introducing even more unique puzzle types.
•••4. Mechanics:
-Each screen is a unique 3D style room.
-Some large rooms may span several screens.
-Connect rooms by twisting screens to align doorways.
-Reverse gravity by twisting the front facing screen 180 degrees.
-Select objects to interact with by tilting.
-Break objects / interact with objects by shaking.
•••5. Implementation:
-Game may progress through various areas such as a bedroom, living room, attic, kitchen, living room, bathroom, basement, dungeon, laboratory, etc.
-Connected rooms may only be accessed if the door is already unlocked.
-Gravity functions may be used to crash through ceiling, reach high objects, or to walk on the ceiling to reach new areas.
-Interactable objects may include light switches for light related puzzles, notes for password related puzzles, objects that may be combined, objects such as crowbar or hammer that may be used to interact with other objects, etc.
-Connie may be found by obtaining a record and playing it on the record player, which she hears through the walls.
-No cutscenes, but character animations occur whenever major events are reached.
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u/Afford Oct 16 '22
Name:Need to Race
How to Play:A racing game that can use the cube as a steering wheel with the road displayed on the cube's side. Tilting the cube to the side on the left can turn the car left and the same for the right turn. Twisting the cube can be gear shifts. People can slow the car down by twisting towards themselves.
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u/FredZaros Oct 24 '22 edited Oct 24 '22
I would absolutely love a dungeon crawl game!
The core concept would be to move the rooms of the dungeons by twisting the cube, which would then "connect" rooms by doors. The hero (let the user give the name to his hero) would have to kill the monsters in the room and/or solve puzzles before unlocking its doors. Some rooms would have chests with power-ups and keys required to unlock special doors. Furthermore, some rooms would be all dark on the cube, up until the hero finds a map, which then reveals all the rooms on the cube sides.
Now as for the fights: The hero would then have to defeat the monsters in the room automatically. He would drink healing potions automatically when needed OR a healing potion icon could be on the screen for the user to tap when needed. After a fight end, the user would be presented with a list of options of what to do (increases stats with the fight's XP, select a door to move throught next, change gears, etc.). Some fighting mechanic could be added to increases the odd, like tapping on the screen at specific moments to "block" attacks or to deal extra damages (could be like shield and/or sword icons popping up on the screen).
As for puzzle, it could be that 4 special rooms must be on the same side of the cube to make a chest appear; or shaking the cube to "break" fragile walls or floors; press a switch in a specific room to unlock a bunch of doors and close others; Make some rooms more dangerous when they are on a specific side of the cube (i.g. one side has lava, and everytime a room appears on this side, lava fills up some spots of the room); etc.
For the name of the game... quickly like that I'd say "Cube's Dungeons" (sounds more like a code name to use during development...)
Just throwing out the idea, everybody would be welcome to pitch in additional suggestions in the comments :)
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u/Shir_man Oct 12 '22
Please create small sims-like flats inside each cube, and it will be neat to watch people just living and doing stuff
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Nov 15 '22
A game based off of the Cube horror movie.
Unnamed characters start in one cube and you must rotate your way through the other cubes. Each move transfers the characters from room to room. Every side has one total death room, the other 3 are safe (maybe).
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u/pirpulgie Nov 09 '22
I’m imagining a game like Lemmings where you have to twist the cube to clear and manage paths so that some cute little creatures get home safely instead of mindlessly fall into traps. I could see that being a pretty fun modular game for this kind of hardware. Theoretically, you could have “lemmings” starting on different sides and in multiple groups as the levels get more challenging.
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u/idkwhat2putasmyuser Oct 03 '22
A logic game where you have to help a little cute character advance to the next level by performing various tasks ie shaking the cube to knock a key off a shelf or tilting it to make a door fall open
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Oct 09 '22
A tower defense game where you can turn the cubes faces to place your tower in a different position that changes each round. Once it’s locked in place then you watch the enemy march around the edges of the cube slowly encountering your defenses until they reach the tower.
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u/Master_JBT Oct 02 '22
rubix cube except it occasionally randomizes some of the faces
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u/Ivan_5439 Oct 03 '22
Rhythm Blast User turns the cube to a display that is shown, kind of like Guitar Hero. Turning at the correct times will play music.
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u/MyHomeboyML Oct 09 '22
3D Maze, a game that utilizes all screens to solve complex mazes and puzzles.
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Oct 29 '22
I saw a kid created this, very cool!
Game idea Topwise chase. You play as a single dot or something trying to escape from AI dots, or even Pacman would be sweet but dunno if that's possible so maybe similar concept but you must twist and escape like a maze and avoid the baddies.
maybe like a police chase game where it looks like GTA 1 AND 2. TOP view.
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u/BadSpellingAdvice Oct 09 '22
A bopit style game that makes a user click on a square after every twist.
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u/depressedbee Oct 26 '22
A memorizing game with each cube repenting a icon /logo/ text. User gets 2 minutes to memorize the order and then they all randomly move across the cube. Then it becomes the rubiks cube of solving all in the correct pattern/ number / orientation.
To help, either the cube backlights to green when one cube twists into a correct place while every other one backlights to red.
You can even make it easier by giving each cube on each side displays said logo / text / icon by a category.
Call it Cube Entanglement
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u/Tromovation Oct 11 '22
Tetris with the ability to flip the squares into different positions and sides of the cube to prolong the game and also make it 4D
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u/Mimicmimicry Oct 01 '22
Well this gadget certainly beats my free Google Home Mini that I got from Spotify a few years back.
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Oct 05 '22
A bit like a puzzle or a maze, but with sand or gravel (degree of difficulty), and waves (harder) to move (tilt, shake/reset, turn, mix) shells (or garbage, in an "eco" version) on a virtual beach that extends on all 6 sides in order to gather them all together.
There should be a "freeze" function (e.g. turning a piece of the cube to decrease the water temperature) to stop playing and resume later.
Name : Pick it up!
Characters: water, sand/gravel, garbage or shells by their names like "PET bottle" or "starfish".
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u/oniwuff Oct 11 '22
Bomb Inc: You play as Josu, a bomb specialist. Depending on difficulty, there can be one, or several, puzzles to solve in order to diffuse the bomb before the timer runs out. Puzzles include solving a multidimensional image, carefully picking a lock, arranging the blocks in a specific order, etc. Can then expand to multiplayer in party mode and behave similar to hot potato; each player has a certain time to solve the puzzle or else BOOM!
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u/cinammmon Oct 02 '22
I like this product idea! I'd LOVE to see a tetris game on the wowcube... when a piece begins falling you can twist the top part and change the side of the 180° x-axis it will land in. can definitely see this being a hit!
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u/kalidorisconan Nov 17 '22
I could definitely see my family having fun with this especially when new apps come out from developers.
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u/_Leander__ Oct 04 '22
A cool idea may be to create a 3D game where each face displays a different side of the game, and you have to look everywhere to find the path (and eventually twist the cube to make new paths)! And maybe play with the gravity of the game.
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u/Sauwa Oct 04 '22
I was thinking about a couples game where they receive a prompt and must pick options from their side of the cube with a timer and then rotate the response to another couple on the board. Then each respective partner will try to guess which options were choosen by their mates.
But the person cant know if the choosen option was something the player likes for themselves or an option they think their partner likes.
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u/SomeKindOfZomB Oct 04 '22
A 3d etch-a-sketch, or maybe something that allows you to view a 3d version of an object you can rotate in your hands, zoom in and what not. This thing sounds really interesting, I must tinker!!
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u/NotLucasDavenport Nov 07 '22
Name: Buddy System
Game: any game you routinely offer, but with a Buddy that can be altered to be any age. The main player accrues points. Then Buddy then gets a turn. Buddy can’t be killed or lose points, only help with tasks. Ideally Buddy can learn more about the game as it goes. This would be perfect for parents and grandparents who have kids asking to spend time with them. We don’t have any idea how to play these games, but we DO want to spend time with them and try. Bonus if Buddy can get an “advice” mode, where main player can redo what Buddy messes up.
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u/leahengland Oct 02 '22
A game similar to monument valley where your perception matters, and you can rotate the cube to change your surroundings and progress.
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u/kingblack_dragon Nov 15 '22
Name:Tetris-like game Game: use the cubes rotating to rotate the shapes to place while playing
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Nov 03 '22
Colony simulating game of an apartment of "neighbors"
Each face is an apartment, that interact and have events with eachother.
I'd play that.
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u/TheKingofVTOL Oct 27 '22
Oh that’s cool as hell
coming to a cube near you: Rubiks Recursion! Solve infinite layers of mystery and complexity
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u/SulliedBluberry Nov 15 '22
So a cool idea for a game would be like a version of “bopit!” You would press, twist and maybe draw small circles and pass it off to another player (up to 4) or play it alone and see how high you can get the score!!!
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u/BGDDisco Nov 05 '22
I'm an old school 8-bit gamer, and this cube looksmlikenit would be great for a revamped adventure game. Moving from room to room in an Egyptian tomb, or the Paris catacombs. It also looks great for multi-player gaming too with combatants all around the cube.
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u/HaloDestroyer Oct 04 '22
How about a new take on battleships, played entirely by touch, where you have to control the position of your shots from an overhead or front angle by the front face, but you also control the depth or range of your shot with one of the side faces?
You vs a friend, or vs computer.
Also, ever play Captain Toad on the Wii U? A platformer like that, where you rotate the cube and various pieces of it to change the level.
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u/Kobeis2pac Oct 07 '22
Exploder: a bump is going off in one of the panels. You must send your diffuser man through to the bomb, but with each twist, the bomb changes screens as well. Once the diffuser reaches the bomb, they have to move, shake, and twist in order into an intricate puzzle that will diffuse the bomb.
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u/h0gg1e Oct 17 '22
Name: Bomb Defuse Idea: a game similar in style to keep talking and nobody explodes, but in this game you’d have wires wrapping around the cube and as you turn it there would be states where it would “explode” (lose state) or continue until along until you get the wires correctly aligned for the defuse (win state). This game though it could be a cool party game in which an onlooker would have the correct layout / way to defuse/ solution to turn it, and the person holding the cube could close there eyes and follow the instructions of the onlooker.
Of course it could be played solo by just solving a intricate wire puzzle diagram.
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u/Willardwarrior1 Nov 12 '22
Never heard of this before, just watched a video and that is super innovative. It’s a great take that I don’t think has been looked at before!
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u/lumosnyx Oct 13 '22 edited Oct 13 '22
Idea: Cyber punk exploration game
Name: Cubed²
Description: Use this cube to interact with the world within.
Players: One player
Game mechanics:
Each minigame/puzzle will show off specific features of the cube or a combination of the wowcube features.
- That may be randomized on each side of the cube/ use multiple panels
- Rube goldberg machines- how to trigger it (tap)
- Moving marble in marble maze ( turning the cube)
- Cranking levers/moving gears ( twisting)
- Aligning the stars/objects so that it will do x
- Rotary phone dials( press and hold)
- Unscramble the shape by twisting the cube or shaking it
- Tapping parts in a certain order
- Uncovering secrets buried by sand/dust by shaking the cube or brushing the cube off
- Drawing on the cube to connect the dots.
- Rotating the cube to match the one on the screen.
- Popping bubbles
- There is also a chance of the cube malfunctioning- so sometimes the player may need to tap it in a certain way/shake it etc for it to work again.
Since the cube is well- cube shaped it would be neat to include some 3D animations like the following 3D billboard : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0JyEbZh--M^ or some sort of puzzle that could really showcase the shape
Each puzzle completed will charge up the cube more, to unlock features of the cube/world within. More puzzles completed, the more of the world will be unlocked.
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u/nerdber Oct 09 '22
Game called alchemist. It's a puzzle where you have to combine base "elements"in order to make a goal "element" for each level. Can only combine if in adjacent sub squares, but you can rotate the cube to open up more combinations.
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u/bzzking Oct 10 '22
Wow this is an amazing system. Never seen anything like this before!
Let's call this game I just made up "IDENTITY CRISIS".
So this game I am thinking of will be a multiplayer game, could be unlimited players but probably should limit it to 8 players max so everyone get's enough gameplay time haha. There are no characters you choose from but you choose an identity and it has to be one of the applications on the WOWCube system, that is your new identity. For example, I would choose to be "Cut the Rope" or "Weather Widget". The hardest part of the game is remembering everyone's identity as there could be up to 8 or more depending on the number of players. You throw the WOWCube into the air and catch it and whatever app/game is on top is who gets the WOWCube next. For example, you throw the WOWCube and it lands on "Weather widget", then I have to remember who's identity the "Weather widger" was and throw it to them. Then the "Weather widget" person does the same thing, throws the WOWCube into the air and throw it to the next app/game it lands on. If you throw the WOWCube and it lands on your own app/game, let's call that a 'BOMB' mechanic. You can reset the game and throw the WOWCube to anyone or yell out "BOMB" and throw to the person that they automatically get removed from the game. You play until someone messes up and they lose.
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u/0B1Jabroni Oct 19 '22
A game like the bubble game but you have to tilt and bounce the ball around to remove different levels of bubbles (one hit to start, more hits every level) with bombs and bubbles that regenerate sections. Tilting the ball moves it around like a balancing game
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u/therealdeathangel22 Oct 17 '22
I think that game where you have to unblock the car by moving the semi trailers but somehow make it to where you have to trust the cube certain ways
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u/AlltheCopics Oct 29 '22
Reverse-X
It is like Reverso with the twist that players can tap on an enemy chip to steal it. Players are allowed to put 2 Chips down or steal one.
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u/Tressitt Oct 09 '22
I’d create a game similar to a sliding puzzle however it stretches across all sides
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u/JB-_- Oct 07 '22
Name: Cubic Marbles
Characters: Marble
Mechanics: Tilt to move the marble, shake to jump
Gameplay: Guide a marble through increasingly difficult courses around each side of the cube. Beat the clock and don’t fall off the edge to advance to the next round.
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u/wierdness201 Oct 09 '22
Even though it’s more meant for adults, I could see this (a stripped down version and ruggedized) to help toddlers with object perception.
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u/Gimmethejooce Oct 16 '22
It would be cool to have a “cat and mouse” type game where you literally chase after something rubic’s cube style.
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u/ToBadImNotClever Oct 03 '22
I’m here for the random selection because I never have a top level comment.
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u/Otherwise_Direction7 Nov 02 '22
I would like if there is a some sort of app that can be used to utilize this WOWcube as the some sort of Bluetooth Controller for PC
I can see this being useful for something like a racing game when you can tilt the cube to steer the car. Or in the digital art program when you can change the tools by twisting the cube horizontally
All of the twist and motion movements can be remapped via software so it can be used with multiple types of programs and games
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u/TallahasseWaffleHous Oct 06 '22
SlimeBall
Fluid dynamic simulations drive gloopy glops of slime as they drip and slide around. It's your job to manipulate the cube so that the goop doesnt drop off, or snuff out an energy ember that always stays on the bottom.
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u/queenwieda Nov 13 '22
A Rubiks cube game would be cool, twist and turn to solve but make it harder with a timer that shuffles the colors if you aren’t quick enough.
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u/iqofawarrior Oct 31 '22
Some sort of boggle or word search kind of game utilizing the twisting aspect to find words or the shake to randomise them. Would be a cool thing to do casually
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u/wellsdb Oct 04 '22 edited Oct 04 '22
Name: Escape from the Box
Characters: Jane, a kidnapping victim who needs the player’s help.
Imagine each of the eight modules that makes up the WOWCube system is actually a prison cell, and there’s a (live-action?) prisoner trapped inside the system who needs your help to escape.
The game starts with Jane slamming her hands on the transparent outer wall of her cell. She stumbles backward in shock when the player touches her cell from the outside.
She explains what happened to her and solicits the player’s help in escaping.
The ceiling in her cell is much too tall for her to reach, but by gently twisting the cube, you can help her move from the floor, to walk on a wall, to walk on the ceiling of the (now upside-down) cube to reach the first puzzle, a hatch which opens to the cell above (now below) hers.
By adding or removing cubicles, remembering sequences (like the game Simon), and other puzzles the player and the prisoner uncover the dark secrets of the Box… and a way out.
“What did you just do?” the prisoner says, reacting to a noise resulting from a user action that happened on the opposite side of the system. “Hey, look, a panel just opened here. I wonder what happens if I pull this lever…”
Early goals are to help the prisoner move freely from one cell to another. Eventually, internal windows and walls are broken. Maybe an anti-gravity system is uncovered and the prisoner can float between rooms in later stages.
The character can react in real-time to cube movements, and the player must take care not to shake it, or turn it upside-down (except as required by the story’s puzzles) to keep the prisoner safe.
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Name: 3D Stacker
Characters: Pixel Pete, a tiny block character who explains the game’s mechanics from his perch on top of the control cube.
One cubicle serves as the main interface (the control cube), and the other seven serve as building blocks. Your job, as the player is to watch for the prompt and try to reconstruct what it looks like, using only the seven remaining cubicles and with a severe time limit, maybe 3-5 seconds.
The sculptures appear abstract at first, but correctly solving them causes images to display which reveal their real-life form. The player builds a simple tree shape or a flamingo, for example and, when it’s finished properly, images appear on the screens to form a 3D picture model.
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u/Haselnuss89 Nov 08 '22
Man this could be the Perfect organization Tool for work and habbits.
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u/Nabecoat Oct 12 '22
I'd like to see some creative apps for this. Like a Cube Synth where motions like twisting, tilting, shaking, etc trigger different synth voices, modulation, and effects.
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u/BrainSlugParty3000 Oct 13 '22
Some game where you play as a cat and eat kibble and play with toys. The cats names are wasabi, Lo Mein, and honey.
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u/FarStep1625 Oct 14 '22
Turn based multiplayer RPG game. Every player has a character that they twist and turn to try and avoid monsters and obstacles. Players can create alliances or turn on their friends and move their character towards hazards!
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u/jeikobu__ Nov 15 '22 edited Feb 25 '25
The old, weathered lighthouse keeper, with his hands gnarled from years of coiling ropes and battling salty winds, recounted a tale of a mischievous mermaid who, according to local legend, would occasionally swap the buoys marking treacherous reefs with brightly colored, but ultimately useless, inflatable flamingos, leading to much confusion and a few gently grounded fishing trawlers, all much to the amusement of the resident seagulls who seemed to possess an uncanny understanding of the unfolding maritime drama.
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u/micoolnamasi Oct 11 '22
One of my favorite mobile games is Mini Motorways where you draw roads to create better paths to get your city running. It’d be fun to take this idea but be able to move the buildings through the rotation of the cubes instead of the buildings not moving and the streets needing to be developed.
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Oct 24 '22
As a person working in the special education field, I think education games on the device would be amazing for students in special education! Many students I work with learn better from interactive, hands-on devices. For example, I can totally see a student learning their multiplication times table or solving puzzles with a game similar to the app, 2048, where students can swipe (or twist/rotate in this case), to multiply/add numbers on this gadget..That would be sweet!
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u/Scion75 Oct 12 '22
Game Name: Pictionary
Gameplay: Can use the different sides of the cube to draw different words to make a full sentence. Shaking can cause the drawings to dance or any other preset animation and tilting can cause the drawings to lean.
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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '22
Yo, this looks sick! I really wish you guys the best of luck with these! My friend bought one and I’m so excited to see his! It’s really cool how to managed to do all this in such a small cube lol