AssaultCube — OUYA Port

AssaultCube — the fast, free Cube-engine FPS — running natively on the OUYA console.

NVIDIA Tegra 3  ·  Android 4.1 (API 16)  ·  OpenGL ES 2.0  ·  armeabi-v7a

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Features

• 🎮 Full OUYA controller support — AssaultCube is a keyboard+mouse game with no native gamepad support; movement, aiming, weapons, jump/crouch and menus are all mapped to the pad.
• 🖥️ GLES2 rendering via gl4es — the engine's desktop immediate-mode OpenGL is translated to OpenGL ES 2.0, including a workaround for the Tegra 3 Cg shader-compiler crash that kills most GLES ports on this hardware.
• ⚡ Tuned for the Tegra 3 — renders at 720p upscaled to fullscreen, with the heaviest passes (water reflections, stencil shadows, dynamic lights) trimmed, for a smooth framerate on complex maps.
• 🌐 Online multiplayer — join the official AssaultCube servers (see below).
• 🤖 Single-player vs bots — three difficulty levels, offline.
• 🔊 OpenAL audio; on-screen touch HUD hidden (the pad replaces it).

Download & install

Grab AssaultCube-OUYA-v1.0.apk from the latest release, then either copy it to the console and open it with a file manager, or sideload over ADB:

adb connect <your-ouya-ip>:5555
adb install AssaultCube-OUYA-v1.0.apk

The first launch extracts the game assets (~50 MB) to the console — give the "Please wait…" splash a moment on the first run only.

Controls

Control	Action		Control	Action
Left stick	Move		A	Jump
Right stick	Look		B	Crouch
R2	Fire		X	Reload
L2	Aim / scope		Y	Knife (melee)
R1 / L1	Next / previous weapon		D-pad	Grenade / pistol / weapon cycle
Start	Open / close menu		Back (hold)	Scoreboard

Look sensitivity and dead-zone are adjustable via the gamepadlooksens / gamepaddeadzone cvars (persisted).

Multiplayer

Online play against the official AssaultCube servers is functional. The in-game server browser is populated from a bundled official server list — the standard HTTPS masterserver fetch is bypassed because the OUYA's API-16 TLS stack can't negotiate modern HTTPS. Open the server browser, pick a server and join.

Screenshots

Building from source

The full build recipe and engineering log — toolchain, the six hand-cross-compiled native dependencies (gl4es, SDL2, SDL2_image, ogg/vorbis, OpenAL-Soft), every runtime fix, the controller mapping, the performance pass and the release signing setup — is in OUYA_PORT.md.

$env:JAVA_HOME = "<portable JDK 11>"
cd source/android
.\gradlew.bat assembleRelease --no-daemon   # or assembleDebug

The OUYA targets API 16 / GLES2, so it needs NDK 23.2.x (last NDK that targets android-16 on armeabi-v7a) and a Java ≤ 16 JDK for AGP 7.0.2. The prebuilt native deps are not committed — see §4 of the port log to rebuild them.

Credits & license

Port by RyoSaeba89, with engineering assistance from Claude (Anthropic).

Based on AssaultCube (the acmobile branch) by the AssaultCube team (Rabid Viper Productions) and contributors. The AssaultCube source code uses a zlib/libpng-style license (same as the Cube engine — see source/README.txt and docs/license.html); game content (maps, textures, sounds) is covered by its own terms documented in the same place. This port keeps those licenses intact.

Uses gl4es (MIT), SDL2 (zlib), OpenAL-Soft (LGPL), and libogg/libvorbis (BSD).