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Rubble! app for iPhone and iPad


4.2 ( 8032 ratings )
Games Education Arcade Simulation
Developer: Space Science Institute
Free
Current version: 1.2, last update: 3 years ago
First release : 13 Aug 2013
App size: 24.21 Mb

Asteroids can be single rocks, or clumps of smaller rocks held together by their mutual gravity. And a bunch of them are headed towards Earth! Your job: use bombs and impactors to deflect them away from Earth before time runs out. Humanity is depending on you! And remember: those movies where they just blow up the asteroid and the pieces don’t matter? That doesnt actually work.

This is a simple, one level game built on the Box2D physics engine. Individual asteroids are attracted to each other by their mutual gravity in a physically consistent way. For teachers: Rubble! can be used as an educational game to supplement classroom discussions on asteroids, comets, Earth impacts, and gravity as a universal force. Development was supported through grants by the National Science Foundation and NASA.