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Crayon Physics Combines Science and Puzzles
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."
sounds like the author is
fan of the flash game Magic Pen.
How is this news? According to wikipedia, the game has been released on June 1st, 2007.
"Ever since the initial game was developed in the summer of 2007, it has managed to garner much press and acclaim, especially since developer Petri Purho revealed that he was working on a deluxe version of the game that would include improved physics and more levels. "
It Arrivieth Now.
It's pretty amusing you'd go to all the trouble to look at Wikipedia and not read the first paragraph of the article itself. That takes some dedicated ignoring there.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
It is about Crayon Physics Deluxe which was just released this month for the PC and iPhone / iPod Touch. (Come to think of it, such games would be a great way to waste time with a Touch or an iPhone)
Perhaps it's a maturity level far below my age, but I really want to get this game to see how many puzzles I can solve drawing penises.
We figured out a long time ago that it's easier to elect seven judges than to elect 132 legislators.
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/
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.
But the upgraded/final release came out just now and Penny Arcade covered that as well (just 6 days ago).
http://www.penny-arcade.com/2009/1/9/
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/1/9/
also you find what a rhombus is.
Relax. Have a muffin. Enjoy the show. --Slick, Sept 13th, 2007.
Gets the music but black screen.
Too bad the author did not develop the game multi-platform :(
For an independent game developer it is quite sad to lose the opportunity to cater an audience (OSX and Linux users) that is lacking (AAA) games and probably quite interested in this kind of physics-based yet casual game altogether.
@neonux
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.
'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.'
MARVEL at the way the virtual crayon material seems to adhere motionlessly to the virtual paper! THRILL as the virtual pigments simulate the refraction of light at different wavelengths!
helps to illic[i]t their creativity/drawing skills as well
I suppose it depends what you are drawing, but for now, most drawings are legal.
(I think you were looking for "elicit").