Goblin's Cube Wii

Goblin's Cube
Goblin's Cube
	File:Goblinscubewii.jpg
General
Author	sponters
Type	Puzzle
Version	1.1.0
License	GNU General Public Licence v2.0
Last Updated	2009/06/10
Links
	Download
	Website
	Source

Goblin's Cube is Rubik's Cube game that uses the wiimote's and nunchuk's accelerometers to control the cube.

Controls

The game's current version assumes that the wiimote will be held with the right hand and the nunchuk with the left hand.

Orientation

Cube

At any moment the cube has one face called the Front face, which is always visible on the screen. Using this face as reference, the game defines the other faces as: Top, Bottom, Left, Right and Back.

Hands

The wiimote's and the nunchuk's motion detection are used to move the hands around the cube. Each hand has only six possible positions available, depending on which axis (relative to the control) the gravity vector is pointing, as shown in the following table.

Wiimote Axis	Face
-Z	Right
+X	Top
+Z	Left
-X	Bottom
+Y	Front
-Y	Back

nunchuk Axis	Face
-Z	Left
+X	Bottom
+Z	Right
-X	Top
+Y	Front
-Y	Back

Movement

Whole Cube

Once you place a hand at a desired position you can hold the cube with Wiimote A Button or Nunchuk C Button‎ and move the hand to another position, thus causing the cube to turn and change its Front position. You can also use the shortcuts at Wiimote DPad to turn the cube.

Rotating faces

Once you place a hand at the desired face, hold Wiimote B Button or Nunchuk Z Button‎ to grab the piece, then rotate the control as you would rotate that face. For the Front, Back, Left and Right position the rotation mimics the real movement; as for the Top and Bottom the control must be twisted around the Y axis. The best way to understand these instructions is to just try it and see how controls work.

Buttons

Right hand

Left hand

Wiimote	Action
Wiimote DPad	Shortcuts to turn the whole cube
Wiimote A Button	Hold the cube (used to change the front face)
Wiimote B Button	Hold the current piece (used to rotate a face)
Wiimote 1 Button	Win the game button !!!
Wiimote 2 Button	Restart game
Wiimote Minus Button	Undo
Wiimote Home Button	Exit

Nunchuk	Action
Nunchuk Control Stick‎	Look around at the side faces of the cube
Nunchuk C Button‎	Hold the cube (used to change the front face)
Nunchuk Z Button‎	Hold the current piece (used to rotate a face)

Building

Libraries needed to build this game from source

FreeTypeGX by Armin Tamzarian for font rendering
- FreeType Wii ported by Tantric, needed by FreeTypeGX to load font images
Metaphrasis by Armin Tamzarian for font texture converting and instruction texture converting
Vorbis used to load ogg sound samples
Libpng used to load instructions texture

Downloading libraries

You can follow the above links and download these libraries individually, cross-compiling some of them before using.

Or you can download directly this package with all of them.

Changes

v1.1.0

Added instructions screen

v1.0

Added online highscore

v0.9.1

Removed debug information from highscore screen

v0.9

Added local highcore record

v0.8

Added support for ogg sound files

v0.7

Added sound
Fixed bug where a face of the cube would turn in the wrong axis

v0.6

Initial version

Credits

Libraries

FreeTypeGX by Armin Tamzarian for font rendering
- Metaphrasis by Armin Tamzarian for font texture converting
- Freetype ported by Tantric to load font images
Libogc's developers for allowing all this to work
Libpng used to load instructions texture
Vorbis used to load ogg sound samples

Game

Hand model, hand textures and sounds by Bruno
Cube texture and game logo by Bota
Online highscore hosting by NextIS

External links

Wiibrew - https://wiibrew.org/wiki/Goblin%27s_Cube