To share your level with others, click Save to get your 7-letter filename, and then use the filename it gives you in a URL formatted like this: filename You can visit the Rubicon Forum for sharing your levels, or post them here in the comments to share them with other JIG visitors. Repeat until success.Īfter completing the twelve pre-built puzzles, try your hand at creating your own levels. If it doesn't work, press Stop to make changes before pressing Play again. Once you have built your machine, press Play to see the results. The tiny icons in the lower left corner of the game window represent the various structures and mechanisms that you may use. Use the component materials provided to construct any machine that will succeed at the task. Each crate must come to rest on its corresponding target for a green light to appear. Unlike Urban Dead, however, Rubicon is a machine-building puzzle game, level editor, and sandbox toy written in Processing, and it therefore requires that Java be installed on your computer to play.īasic gameplay consists of moving crates to one or more targets for each level. Even Will Wright's Spore has generated an amazing groundswell of buzz due in part to its creature editors and its leveraging of user-generated content and the game isn't even out yet.Įnter Rubicon, the latest brain-child from Kevan Davis, the creator of the previously mentioned Urban Dead DHTML zombie game as well as many other works (talk about creative!).

Reference: Line Rider, DofI's Sand games, Professor Fizzwizzle, and Rob Allen's Super Serif Bros., to name just a few. Sandbox games, level editors, and user-generated content seem to be all the rage these days, and for good reason: people love to be expressive and creative, and the games that allow this creative side to emerge often generate a great deal of buzz.

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