Comments on: Magic crayon Physics - now in online flash form

Magic crayon Physics - now in online flash form

filmgeek — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:41:02 -0800

Online Crayon Physics Flash version of stuff from here and here. No download needed (vs. prior posts) and totally addicting.

By: PhatLobley

PhatLobley — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:54:01 -0800

Fun. And cool music.

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:03:28 -0800

Ugh! The "feature" which completes a polygon (for example a rectangle) is too aggressive. This makes meaningful play very difficult, because I keep winding up with trapezoids.

By: SteelyDuran

SteelyDuran — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:18:50 -0800

This is so blazingly, absurdly great!

By: griphus

griphus — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:22:44 -0800

I've been waiting for it to come out in flash, thanks! For us homebrew-running-capable DS owners there's also Pocket Physics. Still in beta and a little buggy though.

By: sourwookie

sourwookie — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:26:54 -0800

iPhone. Want Now.

By: danb

danb — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:27:28 -0800

This is very cool. It seems like the perfect DS game, too; I'll have to find out about getting that homebrew thing going at some point.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:30:14 -0800

Addicted already.

By: CitizenD

CitizenD — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:45:24 -0800

damn you, filmgeek. i just spent nearly 2 hours "playing" with this. only i felt that i'd only spent about, oh, say 20 minutes or so. [me, tomorrow morning] sorry, kids! i don't have all your work graded today. you can blame filmgeek. i'll also have you know that when i placed the periods in this comment, i half expected the last word to "bounce" a bit, and i was looking for a way to insert a triangle to keep the sentence from rolling backwards. rassum frassum crayon physics.

By: jacalata

jacalata — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:59:56 -0800

that's freaking awesome. Thanks!

By: anastasiav

anastasiav — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:12:39 -0800

I'm glad that this is out in flash, because its a great idea and a great game, and I know this guy is going to be very successful. However, I can't play it because it makes me feel utterly stupid. It took me about a hundred tries to get Level 4 (because I'm a stupid moron girl who doesn't understand science or gravity apparently) and now I don't want to play anymore, because failing those 100 times has left me feeling so .... stupid. They needed some easier ones to start. At least for me.

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:16:08 -0800

Awesome, awesome game.

By: Sticherbeast

Sticherbeast — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:33:38 -0800

Gracious. This is a hard little game.

By: mrzarquon

mrzarquon — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:39:30 -0800

i imagine this will be keeping me occupied for the better part f tomorrow at work. Thanks..

By: Item

Item — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:57:37 -0800

Could someone please explain how to use the pins and hinges?

By: Item

Item — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:59:01 -0800

Never mind - I bothered reading the instructions. Great game.

By: alex3005

alex3005 — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 23:31:34 -0800

one of my biggest realizations was that you're allowed to put pins and hinges on the red object itself.

By: PM

PM — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 01:02:27 -0800

Unbelievably fun. I was startled the first time the red circle was replaced with a square. "Magic Crayon Physics, you magnificent bastard!"

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:00:06 -0800

yeah, that red square one was amazing. I actually built, using many many stapled together shapes, a claw to grab the square and rotate it up to the flag before I realized that you could actually staple a shape TO THE SQUARE. and the claw worked, too!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:01:37 -0800

but I'll be damned if I know how to get past level 13.

By: garlic

garlic — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 12:05:27 -0800

I feel the same way about 13... Doesn't seem to be space to counter weight up the hill, or space to hit the ball up the hill in one shot, and I can't hit it far enough to build a second bat either.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:02:45 -0800

I'm pushing a pushrod-and-stays strategy on 13 and am only halfway up, friction is causing diminishing returns.

By: garlic

garlic — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:04:29 -0800

finished! woo hoo!

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:05:17 -0800

garlic, how'd you get past 13?

By: garlic

garlic — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:08:14 -0800

One of the things I figured out is that ALL connected pieces can swing through each other. also, connectors (and not their objects) can be erased.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:10:06 -0800

shme, I'll memail you a laborious but eventually successful method for 13.

By: mbd1mbd1

mbd1mbd1 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:12:23 -0800

I was able to do 13 by building a bunch of two wheel linkages (look like the flintstones car from the side) including one with the red ball on the front. Then I wedged them up the incline and kept making more. It took a long time.

By: waxpancake

waxpancake — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:15:59 -0800

Note: Magic Pen isn't associated with the Kloonigames original that it borrowed so liberally from. He lists Petri Purho in the credits section, at least.

By: shmegegge

shmegegge — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:36:18 -0800

damn you, I was all full of good vibes thinking this was a flash game from the same dude.

By: felix

felix — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 14:04:11 -0800

13 turned out to be the hardest level; it should've been last. Apart from that, what an amazing experience.

By: mbd1mbd1

mbd1mbd1 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:03:15 -0800

Finally finished with 440 shapes total (I figured out how to do 13 with only 12 shapes). I don't know how the lowest score on the scoreboard (27) is even possible though.

By: seanyboy

seanyboy — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 15:23:43 -0800

I can't get past 8.

By: alex3005

alex3005 — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 17:14:39 -0800

I started with 300 or so shapes, and went back to see if I could come up with more elegant solutions. I trimmed my shape count down to 73. /geek //ex mechanical engineer Spoiler: --You can overlap shapes if you use a hinge. If you delete the hinge afterwards, the shapes will un-overlap and nudge everything out of the way. You can make giant shapes to purposefully nudge the red ball/square forward. Triangles are very good at pushing things forward with the wedge-like physics. --I often attach the ball to a trebuchet and delete the beam at its apex to fling the ball across the map. For even more efficiency, you can make a trapezoid trebuchet where it's shape acts as its counterweight. You can beat level 1 to 5 with just 1 shape by putting a hinge on the ball, and drawing an oddly-shaped triangle with one vertex at the hinge. As the triangle falls into the hole, it puts a moment arm on the ball. You then delete the triangle right at the apex of the arc to fling the ball at the flag. I had a lot of trouble with level 10/26, I found that making long bars w/ hinges over the map could get the ball over. Level 13 was also a lot of trouble. I was able to trim it down to 4 shapes, by overlapping giant triangles and unhinging them. I got it down to 4 giant triangles. Level 21 - another difficult one. Found a solution in 6 shapes. I pinned a big weight to the red square (deleting it as it drops) to fling the square towards the bamboo canopy. Then I used the unhinged giant triangle method to nudge the square to the flag.

By: COBRA!

COBRA! — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 18:28:31 -0800

Wow. When I beat level 10 by building a chain, I felt awesome. A really nerdy kind of awesome.

By: spish

spish — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 19:26:25 -0800

still doesn't hold a candle to Armadillo Run. mind you this is free, but Armadillo is so worth the $20.

By: JohnYaYa

JohnYaYa — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 20:37:57 -0800

253 Shapes my first run through. I could probably have gotten that down under 200 just by being more careful, but 25? No way. Seconding Armadillo Run as being awesome.

By: Sam.Burdick

Sam.Burdick — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 20:22:40 -0800

This game has ruined all possibility of my wife getting her PHD.

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 02:53:15 -0800

This is one of the best flash games I have ever played, and I hope that your wife's PHD wasn't in something important: like cancer research; but I do understand the interruption this game can cause.

By: iconomy

iconomy — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 14:47:27 -0800

How many levels are there? This game is taking over my life.