Tonight after breakfast and dish washing for the whole last week, we are solving “Fantastic Contraption“.
This game reminds me programming as there is a problem for which one should create a solution using previous experience, imagination, and a limited set of components. You have to construct a machine in the light blue zone. The machine will carry a pink circle or rectangular to the pink goal zone. You can use three types of wheels (right, left, and unsure) and two types of sticks (tolerant and rigid) for constructions.
But then there is a level called “Four Balls” where you have to move even four pink balls where most of them even don’t get into the light blue zone for construction.
At first, I try to make a car which will collect the balls into a bucket and drag them to the final point.
But as that case didn’t work, I looked at the problem from a different angle and constructed a conveyor which carried the balls where they had to get.
Players can save their vehicles and send links to their friends, like here or there. It’s very interesting to analyze how simply or difficult the problems are solved by other people. Sometimes you can learn smart practices. That’s the same as learning from open-source code in programming.
The game has Web2.0 features. They are user-generated content and sharing with each other. In spite of sharing the solutions of the puzzles, players can also create their own levels and play levels created by others for 10 US dollars. By default there are 21 free levels where I still haven’t solved only the “Tube”.
The background music is somewhat simplified IDM. The graphics are like simplified Worms. So that’s nothing special. But the gameplay is unreal. Do it.
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