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Fanastic Contraption! - DeeBye - 10-03-2008
http://fantasticcontraption.com/
I just can't get enough of this game. It's a pretty cool physics-based game, where the goal is to get the target object into the target area by building fantastic contraptions. You have an assortment of rolling wheels and various connectors to get your contraption to do stuff. The easiest and most straightforward way to get your object to the payload is to just build a moving vehicle and carry it there, but some of the level designs require greater creativity.
Here's a pretty straightforward catapult I built for one of the early levels, which I'm pretty proud of. I don't think I can make it much simpler.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=2459154
edit: I just made an even simpler catapult! It has just a single wheel, which limits its power somewhat but it got the job done.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2459652
Fanastic Contraption! - Concillian - 10-04-2008
Fun for an engineer.
I'd try to do levels multiple ways.
My favorite so far is "slowest pass of a level" with this design titled "stubborn"
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2509408 ~6 or 7 minutes to pass Junkyard.
Fanastic Contraption! - DeeBye - 10-04-2008
Quote:Fun for an engineer.
I'd try to do levels multiple ways.
My favorite so far is "slowest pass of a level" with this design titled "stubborn"
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2509408 ~6 or 7 minutes to pass Junkyard.
Haha, I can't believe I watched the whole thing. So excruciating.
This was my perfected try for that level. I went with a bulldozer/snowthrower idea.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=2504882
Edit: I don't think they thought this level through very well.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2506793
Fanastic Contraption! - kandrathe - 10-04-2008
Quote:Fun for an engineer.This was the hardest I've gotten to so far; Unpossible.
I'd try to do levels multiple ways.
My favorite so far is "slowest pass of a level" with this design titled "stubborn"
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2509408 ~6 or 7 minutes to pass Junkyard.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2520061
Edit: Ah, then 2 minutes on level 21, U-Turn -- http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2520357
Fanastic Contraption! - kandrathe - 10-04-2008
Quote:Haha, I can't believe I watched the whole thing. So excruciating.Similar to mine. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2520778
This was my perfected try for that level. I went with a bulldozer/snowthrower idea.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=2504882
Edit: I don't think they thought this level through very well.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2506793
Fanastic Contraption! - DeeBye - 10-04-2008
Quote:This was the hardest I've gotten to so far; Unpossible.
Un-possible was the hardest by a long shot. Here's my solution:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2512043
U-Turn was really easy. My son just said "do it like you did the upwards pipe one"
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2511414
Fanastic Contraption! - DeeBye - 10-04-2008
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Fanastic Contraption! - kandrathe - 10-04-2008
Quote:Un-possible was the hardest by a long shot. Here's my solution:Handling had me for awhile. Here is what I did.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2512043
U-Turn was really easy. My son just said "do it like you did the upwards pipe one"
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2511414
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2523067
Fanastic Contraption! - DeeBye - 10-04-2008
Quote:Handling had me for awhile. Here is what I did.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2523067
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2489705
Fanastic Contraption! - Kirayla - 10-04-2008
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2526890
I couldn't believe i actually got some kind of solution on my own:P
Fanastic Contraption! - DeeBye - 10-04-2008
Quote:http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2526890
I couldn't believe i actually got some kind of solution on my own:P
It's so complicated!
Fanastic Contraption! - kandrathe - 10-04-2008
Here is my solution for landing on mars and staying on the planet.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2561240
Fanastic Contraption! - kandrathe - 10-04-2008
Quote:It's so complicated!I had one like yours D, but it never stopped spinning.
Fanastic Contraption! - Kevin - 10-05-2008
Quote:Haha, I can't believe I watched the whole thing. So excruciating.
This was my perfected try for that level. I went with a bulldozer/snowthrower idea.
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=2504882
I had a little trouble with this level and then I built a basic 2 wheel "bouncer" and after seeing it go had to see how it would do in the junkyard. :)
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2564123
Simple and silly but it worked. :)
I then had to go watch Conc's crazy thing. :)
Fanastic Contraption! - Quark - 10-05-2008
Once you get through the game yourself, check out the forums. People there are insane.
Green Champion - all puzzles
Green is no moving wheels. Champion is the target stays in the goal area. Green solutions tend to revert to gravity based catapults, a lot.
Fanastic Contraption! - DeeBye - 10-05-2008
Quote:Here is my solution for landing on mars and staying on the planet.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2561240
Hahaha! I love it. If the game had sound effects, I'd love to hear the "thunk!" when it lands.
I kinda wussed out and went with a catapult contraption that just grazed the target area and didn't even come close to touching the planet:(
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=2564123
I should spend more time on that one to come up with something more elegant.
Fanastic Contraption! - kandrathe - 10-05-2008
Ok, last one for today. Awash, and I wanted to try a tank. It looked dicey for a moment. If you get anything under the tracks you tend to end up sliding all the way back off the end.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2570305
Fanastic Contraption! - DeeBye - 10-05-2008
Quote:Ok, last one for today. Awash, and I wanted to try a tank. It looked dicey for a moment. If you get anything under the tracks you tend to end up sliding all the way back off the end.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2570305
I re-used the tank idea as well. Mine did a little better than yours.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2503549
Fanastic Contraption! - kandrathe - 10-05-2008
Quote:I re-used the tank idea as well. Mine did a little better than yours.I fixed it a bit, its a bit faster. At least it's repeatably successful, and has an exciting finish.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2503549
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2572966
Fanastic Contraption! - vor_lord - 10-06-2008
I curse you! I can't stop playing this, even though I have no engineering intuition whatsoever.
I am truly awful... my favorite is when I am trying to do something and it doesn't work at all... but I still win.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2627205
I also tend to get obsessed with making an unsound design work, even if it takes a long time:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2628708