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Replicube: A puzzle game about writing code to create shapes

by poetril on 5/14/25, 1:55 AM with 30 comments

  • by xypage on 5/14/25, 4:15 AM

    Went to check it out, it has a demo so it's worth giving it a shot, but then I went to look at what else this developer has published just to find it's the guy behind the original jelly car games?? Which they have a sequel to on their steam page and the music instantly sent me back. This became a huge nostalgia trip on accident, thanks for sharing!
  • by mjevans on 5/14/25, 5:58 AM

    The description reminds me of 'that turtle program' I encountered as a child...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)

    Hopefully this program also helps teach children new ways of thinking. As a suggestion, any sort of 'building blocks' graphical script language that doesn't need words?

  • by keyle on 5/14/25, 5:53 AM

    That's nice because it's a programming game, but it doesn't send you in the deep-end. Whatever you do appears on the screen pretty much instantly, so you get that constant feedback loop, it's like a 3D voxel REPL.

    Many programming games got complex real quick and frankly annoying. I like this model, it's simple, if you let it through, it's a block, return a number for a colour.

  • by bstsb on 5/14/25, 7:03 AM

    i initially found this game through the developer's tiktok account - they've got some great marketing over there.

    ended up getting the demo and i'll probably be buying the full game

  • by nayuki on 5/14/25, 4:50 PM

  • by Charon77 on 5/14/25, 11:56 AM

    Tried the demo. Very good baby's first step to shaders
  • by einsteinx2 on 5/14/25, 7:09 PM

    I don’t usually like programming games but this looks genuinely interesting. As I saw others mentioned the similarity to the thinking required for using OpenSCAD or writing shaders makes this extra interesting for me because I suck at both of those things.
  • by jzacharia on 5/14/25, 7:55 AM

    Saw this on X - great game, picked it up and have already sunk a few hours into it.
  • by jaaamesey on 5/14/25, 5:35 AM

    Literally my favourite game of this year, thanks so much for making this!
  • by mrkpdl on 5/15/25, 8:44 AM

    This developer is also responsible for Parking Garage Rally Circuit, the most fun game I’ve played in years!
  • by kaan_keskin on 5/14/25, 9:41 AM

    i already played this 2 hours. really liked it
  • by skeptrune on 5/14/25, 6:16 AM

    I am excited to see coding become more and more of a creative medium as AI frees up from the monotony of crafting business logic slop.