Crayon Physics

Submitted by ebeyrent on Wed, 01/14/2009 - 10:06

Crayon Physics Deluxe trailer 2 from Petri Purho on Vimeo.This has got to be one of the coolest games I have ever seen.

I've always been a fan of puzzle games, but in this particular game, the puzzle of how to connect a ball to a star separated by distances and objects, is as dynamic as your imagination.

Players are presented with more than 70 different puzzles and its brilliance is found in the way it challenges you to use your imagination to envision and then implement your own unique solutions to each one.

In the PC version, players use the mouse to draw shapes and objects that react to the laws of physics. For example, if you draw a box in the air, it will fall because of gravity.

What's particularly clever about this game (as you'll see in the video below) is that you can be as creative as you want. Simple levers and inclined planes work, but then again, so will rockets, dragons, and trebuchets.

Watch the video to see what I'm talking about... Other really interesting demonstrations can be seen here and here.

[tags]crayon, game, petri+purho, physics[/tags]

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Erich is a web developer and a native New Englander who is passionate about life, the universe, and everything.

He is currently a senior Drupal developer at Harvard University, working on the IQSS OpenScholar project.  Prior to joining the team at Harvard, he was the engineering manager at CommonPlaces e-Solutions, in Hampstead, NH, contributing as the lead engineer on the Greenopolis.com and Twolia.com.

Erich is active in the Drupal community, having contributed modules and patches to the community. He presented at DrupalCon in Szeged Hungary, and co-presented at DrupalCon 2009 in Washington, DC.

Erich lives in New Hampshire with his wife, two sons, and two weimaraners.  When not writing code, Erich enjoys landscaping and woodworking.

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