Cool! Hungarian Pixxl Cube to start to conquer the world? – video

The team of Pirategames behind the Pixxl cube worked on their invention only in their free time but they were able to amuse the whole world with it as Ernő Rubik did with his world-famous Rubik’s cube in the 80s.

It has already been awarded

In fact, Pirategames presented their cube in the IndieCade, a video games exhibition designed for independent developers – index.hu reported. The cube has a real chance to become as successful as its non-electronic counterpart, the Rubik’s cube was in the 1980s. Its prototype was presented last year on the Arcadia exhibition and below you can watch a video on how it works exactly:

The cube has been already awarded, for example, in the Function demo competition last September in Budapest they won the wild category which is the section of those demos that do not fit in any of the original categories. This is how the Pirategames team introduced their invention on the competition then:

In fact, Pixxl Cube is covered with LEDs which actually function as screens while inside there is an energy source enough for 10 hours and a tiny computer on which the software of the cube run. It has a built-in acceleration measurer and a gyroscope so games based on the spatial movement of the cube are a perfect choice to be designed for it. For example,

there is already a maze game

 we can play on the cube in which we can control coloured dots like it is showed in the above video. However, the cube can have other functions, as well.

A free time activity

It can be a decoration, it can display advertisements but it can function as a party prop, as well, producing pulsing effects – Zoltán Leel-Őssy, leader of the Pirategames, the mastermind behind the Pixxl cube and the project’s manager and financer said. “We are currently working to build a microphone and speakers in it” – he added. The hardware was designed by Simon Varró while the programs were written by András Kaptás. In fact, Varró designs drones and automated systems even for the army while Kaptás is a programmer. Interestingly, the main profile of the Pirategames is designing virtual pinball machines. Therefore,

they created the Pixxl Cube in their free time