Physics Games

October 16, 2006 2:37 AM

Games games games.You've probably seen some of them before. But they're all based on good physics.
posted by Jimbob (10 comments total)

Line Rider Jumps the Shark
posted by bobobox at 2:53 AM on October 16, 2006 [1 favorite has favorites]

If you like those you might also enjoy Hyperbol, the physics based 2d space combat is all about playing with gravity (via).
posted by Olli at 4:25 AM on October 16, 2006

-This is good-
A bit perverse of you to post on Monday morning, but still good.
posted by jeremias at 4:39 AM on October 16, 2006

Still no decent grappling hook games? Meh.
posted by Tzarius at 4:54 AM on October 16, 2006

bobobox, that was awesome.

As for the link... to many "must download to play" games. Boo!
posted by antifuse at 5:49 AM on October 16, 2006

Thanks bobobox, that was fab.

Laser beams!
posted by NinjaTadpole at 5:53 AM on October 16, 2006

I tried the These Little Pigs one as a lark. I thought the entire design was low-contrast beautiful and the game was pretty simple & novel. What I don't get is why he said "Don't play this if you just got dumped or something, you'll probably end up wanting to kill yourself." Uh, what?
posted by Brainy at 6:11 AM on October 16, 2006

I spent an obscene amount of time watching line rider videos on youtube.


Btw, if you want to make a good track-- a couple of techniques (aside from saving often):


1: Hold down the left mouse button, move the mouse to start the line, right click. When the menu comes up, let go of the left mouse button, then left-click again on the screen to draw a perfectly straight line.

2: Draw curves using straight lines at a tangent. As long as you keep the angles very obtuse, line-rider will be able to take the curves at basically any speed.
posted by empath at 6:47 AM on October 16, 2006

Some good games here, but I wish the Teagames ones didn't run soooooo slowly for me.
posted by afx237vi at 7:06 AM on October 16, 2006

PhET, the University of Colorado's Physics Education Technology project, has some interesting interactive physics simulations.
posted by gruchall at 9:40 AM on October 16, 2006