Разработчик: Electric Eggplant
Описание
From award-winning designer David Fox, co-designer of the classic LucasArts graphic adventure games Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure as well as one of the first Lucasfilm Games titles, Rescue on Fractalus! plus SCUMM scriptor on Maniac Mansion.
Rube Works is widely adopted by a growing number of elementary and middle schools and is fast becoming one of the years favorite educational games. Aligned with CCSS (Common Core State Standards) and NGSS (Next Generation Science Standards), Rube Works is a standout app that effortlessly bridges the worlds of gaming and education.
Features
- Only official Rube Goldberg game, based on his original cartoons
- 18 Challenging Puzzles
- Beautiful Graphics
- Aligned with CCSS/NGSS
- Text in English, French, Italian, German, Spanish
More Reviews
- “…Electric Eggplant has done a great job converting Rube Goldberg’s work” —Pixelvolt
- “If you like building crazy contraptions, you’ll love this [game].” — c|net
- “Rube Works puts a fun twist on learning.” —Common Sense Media
- “A challenging and fun game that can also teach the user about physics and logic, while not appearing to be an educational [application]. Rube Works makes the iPad a great learning tool and I highly recommend this beautiful and well made [game].” —iPhone Life
- “Highly recommended!” —The iMums
- “There’s hardly a better game on Android than Rube Works right now” —AndroidSPIN
Also available for iPad, iPhone, iPod touch on the iTunes App Store and for Android on Google Play and the Amazon App Store.
More information at
Designed and Produced by Electric Eggplant. Engineering and Art by Kalani Games. Produced by Heirs of Rube Goldberg. (Originally published with Unity Games.)
ABOUT ELECTRIC EGGPLANT
Founded by David and Annie Fox in 1992, Electric Eggplant has consistently garnered kudos on its games, educational software, and books and apps for kids, tweens, and teens. David began his game design career in 1982 at Lucasfilm Games (LucasArts). During his decade there he helped invent the classic point-and-click graphic adventure genre. David is the Game Designer and Executive Producer on “Rube Works”.
ABOUT KALANI GAMES
Kalani Games is a game design & development studio in Austin, Texas. Founded by industry veteran, Kalani Streicher, Kalani Games has developed games for mobile, social and online platforms, pushing the boundaries of original, innovative and new game play experiences.
ABOUT HRG
HRG (Heirs of Rube Goldberg) is a family-run company led by Rube’s granddaughter, Jennifer George. Their mission is to raise awareness of Rube’s work and to license the intellectual property to appropriate entertainment and media partners who will remain true to the spirit of her grandfather’s legacy. HRG works in tandem with RGI (Rube Goldberg, Inc), the non-profit arm whose mission includes education outreach programs for students and tinkerers of all ages through Rube Goldberg Machine contests around the globe.
Поддерживаемые языки: english, german, spanish - spain, french, italian
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows XP Service Pack 2
- Processor: Pentium 4 - 1.3 GHz or better
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: 256MB graphics memory
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 210 MB available space
- OS *: Windows 7 SP 1
- Processor: Quad Core CPU Intel or AMD
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: GeForce 500 Series or Radeon 7000 Series, 1GB Graphics memory
- DirectX: Version 9.0c
- Storage: 210 MB available space
Mac
- OS: OS X 10.14 (Mojave) or later
- Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Storage: 250 MB available space
- OS: OS X 10.14 (Mojave) or later
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Storage: 250 MB available space
Linux
- Processor: Dual Core 2GHz Intel or 2.8GHz AMD
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: OpenGL shader model 2.0 or newer, 512 MB graphics memory
- Storage: 220 MB available space
- Processor: Quad Core 2.66GHz or 3.2GHz AMD
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: Quad Core 2.66GHz or 3.2GHz AMD
- Storage: 220 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Excellent Rube Goldberg based game, interactive and sometimes challenging levels kept me engaged for many hours. Highly recommend
A very charming and affordable puzzle that has you recreate classic kooky cartoon inventions. When I was a kid there was a collection of Rube goldberg cartoons at the local library so I am might be the perfect audience for this type of game. I do feel like they could have got a bigger soundtrack... A MUST for fans of early american comics. I love how they show you the original cartoon if you get perfect on a puzzle.
ingeniusly fun game designed from cartoon logics, there are actually 3 ways to do every insane schematic, but 3 stars means you have the full rube Goldberg way, octipuss high 5 !(3 in use). As a cartoonist the replayability is comparable to aligned mirrors, so both me and all my 2d infi-me's of far reaching flat dimensional space agree it is the best way to start the day, that is assuming the day is linked to the washing line and in turn to the wild cat that pivets the swing to the soap slide Wich deploys the muffins and sprays hot coffee from your hat, thank you and gaphour!
Very fun and educational game, I like the music very much as well.
I can only recommend Rube Works to any fan of puzzles and Rube Goldberg Machines!
The graphics are very reminiscent of the original drawings by Rube Goldberg in beautiful 3D cel shading graphics.
Each level has its difficulty, but with a little creativity and brains, anyone can build a Rube Goldberg Machine that will take the player to the next level.
The Achievements invite you to play again and the game can also be played on an Android or Iphone.
Very nice game from David Fox! I'm looking forward to the VR version, which will be released soon.
Like the incredible machine series games, but with the Rube Goldberg twist. It isnt as complicated or long as those games but still okay.
Bought it on sale for less than $2 and it was about 2 hours of entertainment, so I would say 5/10.
Rube Works is a short puzzle game, which is similiar to Incredible Machines games by idea, yet it has more of quest-like puzzles logic.
In 18 puzzles you are equired to build "Rube Goldberg"-style machines, which means "use as many items as possible in wacky way to solve a simple thing". Not only made of just mundane physics things, but you also get to use animals and some other unusual things. 12 of puzzles are based on real drawings of Rube Goldberg, so if you are 0.01% of all people who studied his works, then congratulations, you spoiled yourself. For other 99.99% of people it will be new stuff. The other 6 puzzles are completely new, made for this game, designed in same fashion.
As said, puzzles are designed to be more of quest-style one. There is pretty much no such thing as having to place stuff accurately, most often it gets automatically placed into right spot, unlike Incredible Machine style games, where some puzzles were all about accurate placement. And yes, I am talking about 'accurate' placing, as in, few-pixels off.
It doesn't follow same logic of introducing every elements and then using them for whole game. Doesn't make players to figure how to make machine work based on already well-known "bricks".
Instead the game is all about figuring out what "bricks" do. It often gives you different sets of items to use. It does reuse some assets once or twice, but it sometimes gives them a new use once again. In this way it heavily reminds me more of non-sense puzzles from classic adventure games, where you had to do something unexpected or never before explained to you. For example, find out that sword can be sticked to the firework rocket. Placement of some items are a bit obious (only one spot where they fit, for example), and you have to use them all anyway to get the maximum rating.
And yes, you can use as little items as possible and do ridiculously lame shortcuts, you will get to the next puzzles anyway. I would not recommend beating the game this way, not challenging or satificatory at all.
Achievements are quite easy and you will naturally get most of them while beating the game.
The art also looks quite neat for a such small game, things look quite lovely and cartoonish. The physics look wacky, an animal dropped somewhere will be rolling like a ball, doing flying animation and whining. But there is so much you can do and need to do with them in such small game, so who cares. The lgiht humor is in the game too, explaining what is going on in the contraption. Even descriping when things don't go in the right way ("eggs don't hatch on fire, good thinking"). The only thing is that there is only one music in whole game, used for menu. Gameplay itself will be followed only by ambient sound effects, wind or rain or such. But hey, at least you will not feel annoyed by some ever-repeating soundtrack.
So yes. It's kinda like Incredible Machines but different. Will make you think like in quest games. And it's fun enough. This small game will not occupy you for too long, doesn't provide much of progression, more like collection of same-level puzzles, doesn't have much of replayblity. A small neat game.
I like it. It's a short and sweet game that allows me to question myself on different levels.
I would say 8/10, there are a few bugs here and there (like snapping the wire instad of shooting the bucket. But that's about it.)
Fun little game! It mixes in some humor and sillyness with a bit of history. Nice puzzle challanges that will keep you occupied, and feeling satisfied when you get them done. If you like Rube Goldberg machines, this is worth getting.
A take on the contraption making genre which is simultaneously both classic and new. Where games like The Incredible Machine have a more open approach to designing any solution that works for a given problem, there is always a single correct solution to a puzzle in Rube Works: The one with the most complex steps. Incidentally, these are also the funniest solutions.
That's not to say that those are the only solutions worth finding, and I've been having a lot of fun finding the different shortcuts to the puzzles after completing the game. So even though there are only 18 levels, there is some replay value and I feel like the game is well worth its price. Hopefully it might also get a level editor and Steam Workshop integration in the future, as I'd love to solve more puzzles of this kind.
If anyone remembers watching the old Looney Tunes cartoons where some crazy contraption was created to cause mayhem to some unsespecting character, you'll enjoy this game. And if you didn't, you'll still enjoy it!
I never knew of the mobile version, so I went in pretty new. I can see how it was a mobile game based on how the controls worked, but it wasn't too difficult using a mouse. The developer might be looking into options to make it a bit more mouse friendly, but it didn't take away any enjoyment from playing it.
The game can be addicting like chips, so you might go through it quickly just to get that "one more" puzzle done, so I try to play only 1 or 2 puzzles a day to extend my enjoyment from it.
Very fun game to play at a great price and across three platforms.
Now, excuse me, I have to find a cat, a rubber ball, some cheese, a hamster, wet socks, a plate, some string, and a scale...I seemed to have misplaced my keys.
This is a great game, unfortunately it’s a bit quick but i highly recommend this game! The graphics are very good as well as the music both are very reminiscent of the style one would suspect rube goldberg may have utilized if he were still around creating cartoons today. This game both makes you think and is very amusing at the same time. I don’t know about mr siskel or ebert but i give this thing two thumbs up!
Although fun for a short while, the game soon becomes very DULL!
Did science ever fail or bore you? Well this game might change your mind because for starters it is made by one of the former employees of LucasArts (Technically in the 80s & 90s) named David Fox a.k.a employee #3, David's influence for making this awesome game was Rube Goldberg's granddaughter Jennifer George, The puzzles feel original & fresh, The price is right & it is very educational to young or old so overall I highly suggest getting this game even though it only has 18 puzzles but keep your fingers crossed for the steam workshop so we can all make cool contraptions just like Rube did. (If you want more info about the godfather of contraptions then go to this website http://www.rubegoldberg.com for history lessons)
This game is the real deal. In this tablet port, you get to recreate 18 cartoons by the master of convoluted contraptions himself, Rube Goldberg. (Though the Brits among us will be waiting for a Heath Robinson sequel.)
On the surface, this looks like yet another "incredible machine", but here the gameplay is less about sandbox-style experimentation and more about "how on earth are these parts supposed to fit together". Slice a turkey, and all you have is a rooster, a penguin, a sand dispenser, a see-saw, a chicken salad, a bucket, a fan, and some string. Yes, that makes sense. Eventually. And not only is it immensely satisfying to figure out, it also makes me smile.
Such is the effect of the inspired work of Mr. Goldberg himself, some of whose contraptions are by now over 80 years old. The game pays homage to him in the best way possible: by bringing some of his best creations to life, and by letting us puzzle over them (ample hints provided if you need them).
For what it it, it's a very fun game. it's a port of the mobile version but it looks great on PC thanks to the cell shaded look.
The puzzles itself are fun and based on existing Goldberg contraptions. there's 18 in total.
Some of the physics can be slightly finnicy from time to time, but not game stopping.
For the money it's a fun little experience.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Electric Eggplant |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 18.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 94% положительных (16) |