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OT: Great game for kids (and, um, dad too)
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stike
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the new version of "Crayon Physics" is out. My 8 year old pronounced it "better than Madden '09", so that's quite an endorsement...
You literally draw whatever you want on screen, and let physics take over. Hard to explain, but in two seconds you'll "get it" and start playing. I work on a tablet monitor, so that's how we play it. But you can use a mouse, of course. It's a pretty engaging game for kids (and a great time-waster for adults).
Here's a movie of one of the boys trying to solve a puzzle (you collect the stars by getting a ball to roll into them). ...if the ball falls of the page, it will keep giving you new ones until you solve it. First levels are somewhat simple. But it is really amazing to draw whatever you want (wheels, ramps, hammers, etc. and have them 'work'.
The trial version is free, with 18 levels. Check it out. I get no cash from this, i just know the type of engineer-slash-problem-solvers we have on this forum. The intent of the author seems to be not that puzzles can be solved easily (some can), but that it is an open sandbox, and anything goes. more complex, the better...
http://www.crayonphysics.com/
(i am going to get some non-South American lump today after shoveling our snow. We have had pizza and three other dinners cooked in the >gasp!< electric oven this week and that's just wrong. soon my posts will actually be about food.)
You literally draw whatever you want on screen, and let physics take over. Hard to explain, but in two seconds you'll "get it" and start playing. I work on a tablet monitor, so that's how we play it. But you can use a mouse, of course. It's a pretty engaging game for kids (and a great time-waster for adults).
Here's a movie of one of the boys trying to solve a puzzle (you collect the stars by getting a ball to roll into them). ...if the ball falls of the page, it will keep giving you new ones until you solve it. First levels are somewhat simple. But it is really amazing to draw whatever you want (wheels, ramps, hammers, etc. and have them 'work'.
The trial version is free, with 18 levels. Check it out. I get no cash from this, i just know the type of engineer-slash-problem-solvers we have on this forum. The intent of the author seems to be not that puzzles can be solved easily (some can), but that it is an open sandbox, and anything goes. more complex, the better...
http://www.crayonphysics.com/
(i am going to get some non-South American lump today after shoveling our snow. We have had pizza and three other dinners cooked in the >gasp!< electric oven this week and that's just wrong. soon my posts will actually be about food.)
ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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that looks really cool thanks.. happy egging today
bill -
Now that looks like fun. My new boss isn't going to like the idea . . .
I'll be in touch this week. -
My daughter has it on her ipod. Pretty amazing, even reacts to tilts and shakes. A pretty addictive game.
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Thanks Jeff that is really neat.
Larry -
Very Cool!!
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I think I'm really glad that this game isn't available for the mac. Oh, the hours I'd waste...
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it's available for the iPod i think, or iPhone...ed egli avea del cul fatto trombetta -Dante
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Great game, Stike.
I went to an exhibit last weekend at the State Museum in Columbia, SC that featured working models of 40 machines built from sketches in Leonardo da Vinci's original journals.
Anemometer? Check.
Hygrometer? Check.
Military tank? Check.
Water-powered sawmill? Check.
Military tank? Check.
Construction crane? Check.
Hang glider with adjustable wings? Check.
Chain drive bicycle? Check.
Human-powered ornithopter? OK, that was was 1/6 scale and wouldn't work.
Utterly amazing what that guy could do with a couple of levers and pinion gears. I have to wonder what "level" Leonardo would reach on this game!
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