Here’s a bit of preview into the games of Roku. I posted a video of one cell moving about a few weeks ago. Here are screen shots from the video game which is controlled by an XBox 360 controller.

The first screen presents the options to the two different games: Warm and Cold.

Warm
The basic game mechanic is when you touch a cell, all of the neighboring cells will “do something.” What that is depends on the individual games. For Warm the goal of the game is to get the board completely flat. Touching a cell will cause all of the neighbors to invert. Those neighbors down will come up, those up will go down. If you’ve played Lights Out, it’s that concept.

Cool
For cool, the idea is to create clusters of the same color. Touching a cell will cause all of the colors of the neighboring cells to rotate clockwise around the touched cell. This game plays similarly to bejeweled or tetris. The object of this game is to get as many clusters as quickly as possible, allowing you to move to the next level.

Hopefully Roku will be downloadable in the near future, but right now I’m having a bit of difficulty exporting an application using the Game Controller. It’s really much nicer to play with the controller than with a mouse. Until then hopefully these pictures along with the previous post of one physical cell will paint a better picture of what it is I’m working on here. The final physical game will have 24 cells in a static configuration.