Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Fantastic Contraption
During one of our (many) late-night sessions here at the office last week, some of the guys were passing the time between builds by playing this game. It is evil.Fantastic Contraption
If you are familiar with other puzzle games where you construct devices or systems to solve the puzzle (Crayon Physics, The Incredible Machine series, Lemmings, etc.), then you will know what to expect from this game. Fantastic Contraption is a physics-based puzzle game where you construct a machine to meet the goal condition out of wheels (some self-propelled), connecting rods, and a lot of help from gravity and momentum.
It looks simple, but it's not. There are many (infinite?) solutions to each puzzle, but inventing a viable machine can be far trickier than it looks. As I said, it is evil. It begins deceptively simple, but gradually moves to serious head-scratching levels. The demo version is available for free on the web, and a full version is also available with undoubtedly far more fiendish puzzles.
Labels: casual games
- posted by The Rampant Coyote @ 6:20 AM (Permalink)
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yeah this showed-up on reddit over the weekend, man I lost about 8 hours on it. Good fun. A pure sandbox mode would be nice though
Check out phun for a more complicated sandbox version.
I really like that random solutions have a very low success rate in this game. Puzzles that can be solved fastest by guessing are very unrewarding. On the other hand, I found myself cheering as I solved some of the more interesting ones, especially with a neat machine. (Four balls was the best so far.)
I really like that random solutions have a very low success rate in this game. Puzzles that can be solved fastest by guessing are very unrewarding. On the other hand, I found myself cheering as I solved some of the more interesting ones, especially with a neat machine. (Four balls was the best so far.)
On behalf of half a dozen people in my lab. Curse you for posting this! I mean, uh, thanks, this game is really cool. If only it didn't suck away hours and hours! Truly challenging and refreshing when you finally invent the coolest machine around to do the job. Well, until you look at other people's solutions.
On thing however- As soon as you figure out how to make a good catapult you can solve almost every one with it...I did all but "over the hump" "the tube" and "unposible"
with just variations on the same catapult.
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with just variations on the same catapult.
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