Pybik

Pybik is an interactive, single player, multiplatform, open source and free graphical video game implemented in Python and designed as a 3D (three dimensional) puzzle that simulates the magic cube invented by Ernő Rubik, popularly known as the Rubik’s Cube

Includes solvers, patterns and challenges

The application includes numerous challenges and solvers, a set of several libraries, as well as a wide range of pretty patterns. Players will be able to manipulate the cube with their keyboard or mouse. Pybik can handle bricks and towers, not only cubes.

Thanks to the multitude of patterns provided in the application, users will be able to change the images and colors on the faces of the cube, making it look pretty. The GUI (Graphical User Interface) is intuitive and easy-to-use, presenting players with a sidebar located on the right side of the window, from where they can choose different challenges, solvers or pretty patterns.

A statusbar will keep players informed about their progress in solving the Rubik’s Cube, and some sort of command field will list all the moves you make, allowing you to interact with the cube using only your keyboard.

From the Preferences dialog, you can change the animation speed, enable or disable lighting and mirror distance, change the antialiasing settings, select a mouse navigation mode, view, add and modify keyboard layouts, as well as to change the app’s apperance.

Runs on GNU/Linux, Windows and Mac

Looking under the hood, we can notice that the Python, GLSL (OpenGL Shading Language) and Cython programming languages have been used to write the Pybik sofftware. The cross-platform GTK+ GUI toolkit is used for the graphical user interface.

The application has been successfully tested under various GNU/Linux distributions, supporting 32-bit and 64-bit flavors, as well as on the Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It can be easily installed from the main software repositories of modern Linux kernel-based OSes.

What is new in this release:

• New puzzles: Triangular Prisms and Pentagonal Prisms
• For each puzzle type, the game is saved independently
• Misc improvements
• Updated translations

What is new in version 1.1.1:

• New and updated translations
• Misc bugfixes and improvements

What is new in version 1.1:

• Rendering engine now uses modern OpenGL
• should be faster on most systems
• improved lighting effect
• New and updated translations

What is new in version 1.0.1:

• Minor improvements and bugfixes
• Updated translations

What is new in version 1.0:

• Improved user interface.
• Added Towers and Bricks (non cubic puzzles).
• Added an option to show the back faces.
• The cube can be manipulated with the keyboard.
• Animation is faster and rendering more beautiful.
• Added more pretty patterns.
• Added a new solver.
• Added new translations.

What is new in version 0.5:

• New solutions:
• Spiegel improved
• Solution for the 2x2x2 Cube
• New file format for solutions
• Improved mouse control
• Mouse button with control key rotates the whole cube
• Right button moves in the opposite direction
• Changeable background color

What is new in version 0.4:

• Most of the changes took place under the hood. A new solution (Spiegel) has been added.

What is new in version 0.3:

• There is now a bar where you can edit moves in a notation that is similar to Singmaster's notation.
• The state of the cube and the moves are now stored between sessions.
• The sidebar has sequences for few pretty patterns.

What is new in version 0.2:

• Preferences are now stored with the GConf system. Also there are some minor improvements and bug fixes.

Requirements:

• Python