This was originally posted on the now-defunct Random Fury! videogame blog.
This week on RGF, it’s a more scientific game, with realistic physics and everything, in which you have to make a contraption to transport an item to the goal. Or more accurately, you are to create a Fantastic Contraption.
You are given wheels of various rotation and a couple of different stick types to connect them together, and that’s pretty much it. But don’t let this small collection of parts deceive you – there is depth here. Much depth. At first it seems like the best thing to do is make a car to drive over all the obstacles and get from A to B, but once you realise you can create other ways to transport the objective, it becomes an entirely different experience.
There are no penalties for failure, and you can have as many pieces as you like in play as far as I can tell, but the satisfaction when you complete a level that utterly stumped you is massive. Watching some of the user-created levels just blew my mind. There I was struggling to get a four-wheeled creation going, all the while these guys were juggling four or five red balls and catapulting them into the goal with ease. Crazy stuff, and it’s well worth a go.
Here’s the link again: http://jayisgames.com/games/fantastic-contraption/ Go nuts!
