We’re probably the 1,000th “weblog” to single out Crayon Physics for praise and recognition (as such, “Under the Radar” is a slight miscategorization). Even though it’s the gaming equivalent of a cult Sundance Film Festival mumblecore movie, we can’t get enough of it. Small wonder it won the grand prize at last year’s Independent Games Festival.
Designed and developed by Finnish student Petri Purho, Crayon Physics is puzzle game that looks like your five-year-old kid or baby sister drew in kindergarten. You use the mouse draw objects that will help move a ball across the level to a goal.
It’s got very sophisticated physics at work, and your solutions have to take into account momentum, velocity, and all that stuff you forgot from high school. For instance, in one early level, the ball is in a box at the end of a lever, and your job is to figure out how big a box to draw so that it drops onto the other end of the lever and launches the ball to the goal. I must have spent five minutes just drawing boxes and watching the gravity of the game world take hold of them and drop them on the lever. The game is addictive, and the music is very haunting, and, sometimes, strangely erotic (especially this track by _ghost [how do you pronounce an underscore?]).
If you haven’t played the demo, head over to CrayonPhysics.com and try it.
Smack Verdict: PLAY
May 24th, 2010 at 5:00 am
И тогда, человек способен…
Even though it’s the gaming equivalent of a cult Sundance Film Festival mumblecore movie, we can’t get enough of it…..