This domain/page was used as a information page for these apps. The apps have now been removed from the App Store.

These apps were published for iOS (iPhone and iPad).

Earthcube EarthCube
Kyuge Kyuge, The Cube Game
Earthcube Lite EarthCube Lite

Development:

  • Developed on a IBM Thinkpad T42, dual booting into “Hackintosh”.
  • Target was iPhone 3.
  • Game core written in cross-platform C++ (C++03 & TR1)
  • An Objective-C iOS shell controlled the settings and launched the game core.
  • The free version used an embedded browser and HTML UI.
  • Directly used portable Open GLES for graphics.
  • Graphics generated with Ruby + Imagemagick scripts using and custom projection tools written in C.
  • Core game engine was developed and tested on MSYS2/Windows via a GLUT frontend.
  • Highscores were hosted on the Google Cloud Platform. (this was before GameCenter)
  • Source code managed in SVN!