I came across Kloonigames the other day and whilst I’m not a big games person I am a bit of a sucker for certain types. One of them is puzzles that involve placing random elements around a stage in order to get an item (typically a ball) from one position to another using gravity and the laws of physics.

I played one of these years ago on my PC but forget its name now. This one was limited by having to use only the items supplied.  Kloonigames has come up with a variation on a theme by allowing you to ‘create’ the inter-linking items that cause the object to move and the items along which it travels. Here’s the designer’s own description:

Crayon Physics Deluxe is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.

Normally I probably wouldn’t tell you about this, but I like the madness  behind the games ceration. Well Petri Purho is the designer, creator, programmer, etc of this and other games. The idea behind all the games is to “crank out an experimental game every month”. Secondly every game has to be made within a 7 day deadline and has to test some new form of gameplay.

Kudos to Petri.

Tags: crayon physics, games, fun