Red Cube Game

Red Cube Game is a small snake-like game I built back in 2020 to teach myself game development with Unity.

To quote my own description on the iOS App Store:

Red Cube is a 3D first-person Snake-like game, except you're a big red cube collecting very thankful people. Fun, competitive and extremely weird and low-graphics.

Have you ever dreamed of being a red cube, moving around and picking up people while avoiding your tail in a very random and low-graphics environment?

If so, Red Cube Game provides you the exact experience you've been looking for!

Compete with other players in the leaderboard of this first-person 3D Snake-like game. Discover the special effects of...

One interesting thing about the project was the monetization: the main menu displayed a small banner ad, but ads would be turned off once you achieved a certain high score (1,000,000 I believe). This did not matter much as the game was never popular enough to really bring in money, but I liked the idea of rewarding players who practice and become good at the game with an ad-free experience.

Here are a few screenshots from the project:

  • iOS App Store listing for the app Red Cube Game, with the tagline: A weird 3D Snake-like game. The visible parts of the description go on to say: Red Cube is a 3D first-person Snake-like game, except you're a big red cube collecting very thankful people. Fun, competitive and extremely weird and low-graphics. Have you ever dreamed of being a red cube, moving around and picking up people while avoiding your tail in a very random and low-graphics environment? If so, Red Cube Game provides you the exact experience you've been looking for!
  • Screenshot showing a red cube on grass heading towards a small red character.
  • Screenshot showing one of the special effects, where instead of just one character being available for pick-up, multiple character are present.
  • Screenshot of the same interface as before, but in near total darkness.
  • Screenshot showing the player's "tail", which is really just a bunch of cubes duplicated at slightly offset positions.
  • Screenshot displaying a LEADERBOARD heading, followed with: All-time highscore: 5,241,892. This week's highscore: 295,644. Your ranking: All-time: 1st (5,241,892). This week: 2nd (229,709). Back to menu

Video demo

Here is a screen recording I had taken back in September 2020, which shows the menus and gameplay.

Tech stack

The game itself was built in Unity.

The backend for the leaderboard system was just 5 files with vanilla PHP totalling 125 lines of code, which stored and retrieved data in a tiny MySQL database. It wasn't the most advanced leaderboard system, but it did the job just fine!

Where is it now?

It was available on the iOS  app store for about year... and then my Apple developer license expired, and I didn't renew it, so the app was taken down.

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