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[quantumpotato]

https://github.com/sifteo/thundercracker/blob/master/README.md

They're out of business but you can find them on ebay etc. Looks very cool.

[s0]

how have i never heard of those?

seems pretty much perfect for digital board games.

EDIT: looking into them more, i think the reason why they failed is because it's only 3 cubes. that seems extremely limiting to me, and not in a good way. if it was something like 8 or 16 cubes, so you could form actual patterns or grids out of them, it would have had a lot of potential. i guess it was just financially unviable to have more than 3 in a package, esp considering it was marketed as a children's toy?

[quantumpotato]

how have i never heard of those?

seems pretty much perfect for digital board games.

EDIT: looking into them more, i think the reason why they failed is because it's only 3 cubes. that seems extremely limiting to me, and not in a good way. if it was something like 8 or 16 cubes, so you could form actual patterns or grids out of them, it would have had a lot of potential. i guess it was just financially unviable to have more than 3 in a package, esp considering it was marketed as a children's toy?

Great point.. I like the demos where you move the cubes to make a maze. Could be a cool "pick your own direction".

The lack of possible cubes limits choices for sure though. Maybe you could do the same thing with a bunch of touchscreen phones..