Cubosphere [reborn] 🏀 🎮

A little story behind it

One upon a time on planet called Earth one man found a very very cool game called "cubosphere", but it was abandoned in 2011-12. He enjoyed it and dreamed that some day it could become great.

After a while, he decided to pick it up and at least make it look like a modern project, so others will be able to contribute easily.

This is why this organisation exists now.

What is this game about?

This project is a freeware game similar to the PSX game "Kula World" / "Roll Away". It is designed to be platform independent, written in C++ and using the following libraries: OpenGL, SDL2 (Simple DirectMedia Layer), Lua, GLSL-Shader and POCO.

Features

• Game similar to Kula World
• Over 450 levels in 34 different designs!
• Starting from beta 0.3 — a lot of new stuff like magnets, gravity changers, and so on
• Multiball feature and two-player-mode
• Internal level editor!
• 3D engine via OpenGL
• GLSL Shaders
• Joystick/Gamepad support

What have I already done to improve the game?

• Moved to SDL2 from SDL1.2
• Migrated to CMake
• Separated data and code repos with auto ZIP
• Fixed some warnings
• Removed using namespace std;
• Made code C++17 compatible (no warnings or errors)
• Configured Cricle CI with auto .deb build for Ubuntu LTS + last release (read next section), cross-linux .tar.gz
• Created icon and .desktop file
• Moved editor manual to GitHub wiki which can be opened from editor menu
• Added .png support and converted all textures to it, previews are saved in it too
• Replaced self-patched minizip with POCO Zip

... and a lot of technical or smaller internal changes!

How to download the latest git build?

1. Go to http://cubosphere.vallua.ru/artifacts (warning: only the last build artifacts are kept, some of them may be missing if a build is uploading now)
2. Download the appropriate package (the naming scheme is Cubosphere-timestamp+git-hash-...)
3. Install as normal (if you don't know how, just open the file and click the "Install" button or similar)

Ubuntu packages

Some notes on the Ubuntu packages:

1. You need both BIN and DATA packages, they are cubosphere and cubosphere-data, respectively.
2. It is OK that their versions differ, data is stored in another repo and updates with it
3. When updating, download only BIN package: download DATA only if deps can't be resolved
   1. You'll probably be reqested to remove cubosphere when updating cubosphere-data, do so and install new version later
   2. Use dpkg -i from the command line to avoid this issue (google it for more info)

What will/should be done?

Check out the projects page!

How can I take part in this fun and make cubosphere great again?

You can:

• Fork repo and make a pull request, or
• If you have made a lot of contributions and I trust you then you can ask for direct write access
• Test the game, report issues, and tell your friends about it
• If you have experience with CMake on Windows or macOS, any help with it will be appreciated!
• Join IRC (click the badge at the top of this page) and talk to me, other players and (if they are here!) team members
• Support development on , motivate using

OK, some credits

You can find original homepage, codebase and developers at https://sourceforge.net/projects/cubosphere.