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Crayon Physics Combines Science and Puzzles

Posted by Soulskill on from the and-nobody-can-tell-how-bad-you-are-at-drawing dept.

IamAHack writes "NPR covered a new game that seems like it would have great appeal to Slashdot readers: Crayon Physics. Quoting: 'A new computer game went on sale this week. It's not a blockbuster like Halo or World of Warcraft. There's no first-person shooting, no sports, no guitar, no microphone. Instead, there's a crayon. The game is Crayon Physics Deluxe. It's a simple, mesmerizing game created by a 25-year-old independent games designer from Finland named Petri Purho. "It's a game where your crayon drawings come to life,' Purho tells NPR's Melissa Block. 'You draw stuff and your drawings behave physically correctly. As soon as you release the last button, the laws of physics are applied to your drawing."' A demo is available, and Opposable Thumbs has a review of the game."

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  1. Other games based on box2d library by MrvFD · · Score: 4, Interesting

    As the game is based on open source box2d physics engine, there are also other games with partially similar feel and game play. Crayon Physics was the one with the original idea, though.

    Nokia Internet Tablet and Openmoko Neo FreeRunner owners might be interested in Numpty Physics: http://numptyphysics.garage.maemo.org/ & http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/u/rantalai/freerunner/numptyphysics/

  2. Game version of Phun? by Jott42 · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Is this the game/level-version of Phun? ( http://www.phunland.com/wiki/Home ) Which is a very similar simulation, but instead in a sandbox format.

  3. Fantastic Contraption is better by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    So it's like Fantastic Contraption but with crayons. Yawn.

  4. Add a Wii Controller by jmichaelg · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I used the Crayon Physics demo to try Johnny Lee's whiteboard hack. I was primarily interested in the whiteboard hack and wanted something interesting running so I could watch different people using the IR pen I had built to see what limitations it had. The game drew enough people into it that they completely forgot about how they were interacting with it that I figured the hack as a win.

    fwiw, I used a key ring led to house the IR Led and battery. It took about 5 minutes to swap the white light led with an IR led. My cell phone could see the IR led light up which told me I had done that part of the hack right later on when I had problems with a Broadcom Bluetooth driver.

  5. Re:FTA reveals all by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Wow someone made a hot air balloon, parabolic antenna, and blew up a building with this!