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http://fantasticcontraption.com/

Anyone remember The Incredible Machine?

This is pretty fun.  You can save and link your contraptions and share with everyone.  Here's an example of one of mine:
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=118232

Man. This game is a godsend. I've already wasted 2 hours of slowness at work and it's flown by. Good stuff.  :awesome_for_real:

Ok, that game is utterly evil

Mission to Mars had me stumped for a bit, but I rigged somethin up real nice.  :grin:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=120271

Not mine, but I laughed when I watched it. The name for it is appropriate..."Explosion"

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=119304

Not mind, but it looks complicated.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=119116

This game is awesome.. :D

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=129980

Edit:
Oh and one more:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=130168

Down Under is pissing me off.

hey guys it's like FOUR IN THE MORNING

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=132204 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=132204) This design was such a wonderfully simple solution, wish I'd thought of it.

This is how I did it. I feel somewhat retarded after seeing other people's ideas, but it worked so I don't feel too bad.  :oh_i_see:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=124622

Hopelessly addicted!

I am going to accomplish nothing today because of this.  Utterly brilliant.

My unpossible: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=141716

And this is hysterical:  http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=23772

Every time I click one of these links it suddenly becomes half an hour later. Really wish I had some level of engineering talent, some of the most impressive ones are the really simple designs.

This is going to get me fired.

I made a dunebuggy for Over the hump

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=144776

Sorry but you need to buy the full version of the game to see solutions to that puzzle.

This one is fantastic: http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=134546

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=97636

Nice catch ;)

Doesn't work right when I view it.  Everything falls off the back side except for one wedge that falls under a ball.


NVM.. it was running in the background just now and I didn't notice the ball was creeping along ever so slowly before.

Sweet merciful crap.  I'm torn between admiration and pity for the people who came up with some of those.

Having said that, here's some of what I did before mercifully giving up on Down Under.  :P

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=135946 (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=135946)
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=135764 (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=135764)
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=135533 (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=135533)
http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=135406 (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=135406)

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=150593 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=150593) - A little overkill on my part.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=151243 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=151243)

My 'economic' solution to that one. Took me forever to tweak it.

a lil damnation alley tank inspiration http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=151578 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=151578)

edit:  timing is everything i guess http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=153248 (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=153248)

stuck on the tube time for bed

Damn, both of yours were crazy. Mine was hideous for the one you showed, Salamok.

So close, yet ...... (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=152664)

My solution to Back & Forth which stumped me for quite a while.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=153512

nice bridging vehicle ;)

Ya, that one's awsomely elegant.

I made a Dog with a chain.. haha:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=160276

Fuck me.  I'm in total awe of the people who invent catapults and rods and pulleys and the whole nine yards when so far a car or tank has done the job for me.

Alas, I now have to get to Mars and my tried and true sucks balls.

Probably my least fav aspect of the game is that vehicles seem to work for most of the stuff.
wait till you get to the tube, I spent well over an hour on that thing last night and while I think I have a solution, tweaking it to work is probably going to take at least another hour.

Dam it.

I have been telling people at the office about this. I fear, incoming firewall blockage. lol.

My tube climber:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=131020

Woo:  Just made one that doesn't need the 'cheat' stick wedged at the bottom:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=161954

i'll peek after I complete mine.


edit: BTW - I think this is everything a social flash game should be, not only is it fun to play but it is almost as much fun to see what everyone else's solutions were.

Do it the easy way.. ;)
EDIT: Wrong link!
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=164092

Went back and did Awash again to see if I could just push the balls off the other side with enough brute force...

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=169013

Good times.

Heh heh, that's awsome. If you'd angled the nose down a bit, you coulda swum under the mess, which would have been cool too.

Whats the opposite of elegant? this (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=170230)

I disagree.  That was awesome.

has anyone bought the full version and what do they think of it.  Just wondering if it is going to offer a significant amount of more play because the free version seems to offer enough to satisfy until border with the whole thing.  The build your own course thing sounds fun but not if no one you know can play it or even view it.

I think it's in my nature to always attempt the simplest possible solutions (vehicles, brute force, etc.).  I was sure this one was going to work, until halfway through or so.  I find the failures to be just as fun as the successes:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175076 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175076)

Edit: and as expected, a slight modification made it work:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175177 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175177)

that's awesome!  my bullshit meter moved a lil though as I can't imagine someone failing so magnificently by accident.

heh, see edit above.  My brain is hardwired to find the easiest possible solution.  I do a lot of trial and error too, so I will run things dozens of times knowing they won't work fully, but just trying to see if I am on track.  Some of the failure are hysterical.  Like when you forget a key piece or two, hit start and then all the shit just falls straight down and does nothing.

I'm laughing so hard at myself right now that I have tears in my eyes.  At work.  Forgive my lack of originality, and enjoy the spectacle:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175340 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=175340)

That is fucking awesome.

All right, I'm kinda proud of this one.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=176640 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=176640)

You should be, that's amazing.

I decided to try to reverse-engineer Ozzu's awesome design to better understand it, and came up with this variant where one vehicle does the whole job:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177075 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177075) (edit: made it better)

Since I quickly become stumped at the two really hard ones, I am now dedicating my time to either really simple or really stupid solutions to some of the easier ones:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177339 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177339)

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177482 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=177482)

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=178308 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=178308)

just realized i goofed my timing is everything link up... after wasting tons of time on an overly complex approach i found a simple 1.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=153248 (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=153248)

Wow. That's really cool.  :drill:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=170778

Solution to Unpossible. Even though it's the 20th puzzle, I'm not sure it's the hardest. I had a harder time with the "Handling" puzzle.

That is seriously smart stuff mang.

I bought the full version earlier tonight and it's pretty sweet. There are hundreds of user-designed levels. I just jumped right in and went to the hardest one I could find in the first few pages of levels. The one I found I'm sure will supply hours of entertainment. Think of the Tube level, except about halfway up the tube, it hangs a right, and a few lengths over from that, it goes up again.

How in the hell I'm supposed to do this, I have no clue, but it sounds like fun.

The good thing about the level list is that there's a rating for level quality and a separate rating for level difficulty. Good way to filter out the riffraff.

FINALLY managed this one (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=184628)

MM, I have decided to skip a whole lot and start from your next one. Much easier than that one it seems:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=187862

That sure took me a while too (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=188300)

Trucks are too easy. Anyone got some fun limitations to make things doable but more creative?

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=189417

EDIT: Ahhh...

Just realised you can move the thingo you have to move...

That makes everything a bit easier too. Heh.

Some brilliant catapault efforts around, maybe time to try that.

This is not mine, but it is awesome: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=187455

After 4 hours trying to get an extension ladder/rope trick thing going I finally gave up and built a tube crawler:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=192919 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=192919)

aaargh!  man talk about a blind spot!  I feel retarded ;(

I think I did Four Balls differently than you guys...

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=194589 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=194589)

Also, this (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=195610), this (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=195744), and this (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=195798) as minimalist solutions to early problems.

Edit: Here's somebody's minimalist Four Balls! (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=173747)

I'm really happy with this really simple stair climber. The dangling box makes it constantly reorient, so even tough it takes ten minutes to clear this level, it never gets stuck.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197235 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197235)

Hehe, the speed of that was so frustrating I decided to see how quickly I could get it done:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197607

I found this amusing for the way to enters the box. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=197737

Big Ball frustrated me for the last hour, don't have a clue what to do, and I'm trying to avoid seeing how its been done. I even tried to brute force the bar under the ball using a 16 wheel vehicle, but no luck.
I can catapult a small wedge behind the ball, but its too small to help, or its too heavy to get there. I even found a way to bump the top ball and have it roll down, but that really doesnt help in any way :P

So Instead, I tried down under, which people were complaining about.

Amazingly, got this not so graceful solution in about 5 mins:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=198027 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=198027)

Ok, thats cool. I never though of a golf machine.

My best effort on Four Balls - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=198090 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=198090)

Edit: My horrible solution to Back and Forth - http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=199320 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=199320)

See, right there is smart! I lack this kind of imagination, and probably why I find the game awsome. It reminds me that I still have stuff I can learn, which at my age, is great.

Yeah.  The diversity of thinking - even around here - is staggering.

Trying to see how many can be done without using wheels. More than I thought.

Other fun things to try are to make the thing stop in the area, not just get into it.

Mmmm I have to stop playing this.

Ok this one is stumping me: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=201185 (Down Under)

Can anyone think of a way to adjust what I've done there to make it doable w/o the wheel?

(managed it wheeless another way but cant get it to stop there: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=201090)

Bleh: I found someone who managed it. Fucking awesome, though: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=139121

So close.. yet so far.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=204508

Also.. after I win I like to mess around and see what else works.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=204508

I still keep it simple, but.. different.

Hey look, 8 hours sleep and I'm back playing this!

Finally finished Big Ball, now I can go see if there is a less convoluted method than this one: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=205160 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=205160)

I am rather proud of it though.

No Imagination (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=205400)

You were pretty close, all you really needed to do was increase the size if your little box thingy, add some more wheels, and completely fucking break the collision detection.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=205645

Small change to fix: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=207817

here's my contribution.  Tried to do things without vehicles.... 

Down under:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=211301 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=211301)

Four Balls:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=210899 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=210899)

Back and forth:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=212390 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=212390)

Handling:  Ok, so I used a vehicle... sort of... http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=212173 (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=212173)

My fave was probably Four Balls, took forever to get right.

Yeah, I tried to do that with Four Balls, but I couldn't get it to work like you did. Damn impressive.

Heh.  I like you.

Some of the brilliant solutions to handling I've seen:

3 Pieces, stays in the zone: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=147660

No power, stays in the zone: crap, I lost the link.

That is impressive. Best I ever managed with a catapult was two in and one just rolling past.

This is the best I've managed on Four Balls. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=223629

I'm about 90% sure it can't go any smaller on this level. At one point, I got 3 balls with 3 pieces, but couldn't tweak it to get the last one.

The Tosser (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=225786) (looks easier than it was to design!)

Here's my most spectacular failure yet.  I still have no idea how this happened.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=227417 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=227417)

Holy cow! That thing took off!

Yeah, and it looked fine too...or at least, it didn't appear about to take flight.

I futzed with this one trying to finish it for a while... same basic instance.  http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=214781 (http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=214781)

Seems to be a limited trend, don't know how you make it happen tho...  Something about how the arms are attached to the wheel I think.

Okay.  I'm done.  This thing took like 4 hours.  Details matter.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=230471

My Unpossible solution: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=231290 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=231290)

Ok, so I was wrong about 5 pieces being the limit on 4 balls, but I'm sure this Tube will never be topped: http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=232012

Bunk showed me this game and I have to admit it is pretty awesome.
I think the best part for me is that "doh, why didn't I think of that!" moment of seeing what other ingenious minds can come up with, cause I am a dumbass.

To that end I have created a level and wanted to see if any of you can come up with a solution to it.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?levelId=2451

Hmmm, have to have the full version to play a playermade level.

For those of you looking for more variation or some greater limitations, there's Armadillo Run (http://www.armadillorun.com/).  Similar idea; it's a download(win32 only) instead of flash, there's no 'wheel' element, the ball needs to stay in the (generally smaller) target area for a few seconds to qualify, and the pieces have a 'hardness' to them, that means under stress, they break.  Results in a bit more rigor required than in this flash game, where just any random wackiness will hold together, in Armadillo run, it breaks into pieces.  This can be a good thing, and all according to plan.  Often, though, not so much.

Also, parts cost 'money', and each level has a budget you need to beat to move on; your expenses are how the game is scored online.

If you register, you get more pre-made levels, and access to fan-made stuff.

Shame it's only win32.

Here's Version 1.1, accuracy+++ (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=227372)   ;D

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=252573 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=252573)

wtfhax

That was deliberate, yes?  I can't see how that was otherwise going to work. 

Wasn't mine.  I suspect someone was fucking around when 'the wheels came off' and thought 'Holy shit, I ought to save that'.

 :awesome_for_real:

It goes thru the wall?  For me it bounces off and exits stage left...

Since I put him on to this, I couldn't resist the challenge:  http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=271699 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=271699)

This is impressive! (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=265147)

Keep it Simple. (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=260323)


Edit :  This one's called Tackle (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=272208).  Awesome.

Woah. That's impressive. Would have been annoying to get it that perfect.

Bunk, This solution does not work, oh so very close, but does not work.

This is weird, as it's the first time I've seen inconsistency in this game. I can definitely assure you that my solution above works on my home PC.

Yah know, it could be CPU related.

Minimalist Mind The Gap (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=294670).

It's funny how easy you can really make some of these.  Not that it was hard by any stretch, but my first ever run at "around the bend" was stupidly complicated and required many attempts to make work.  And then I when for the minimal approach.

One Piece "Around the Bend"
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=309102 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=309102)

One Piece "On a Roll"
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=309452 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=309452)

That is WAY too complicated, delete that worthless piece of wood.

(it still works if you do)

Lol, I'll be darned, it did still work.  My brain just assumes that friction is at work, but it clearly isn't.  Anyway, I added another one-piecer above, and I refuse to believe that removing the stick is going to be possible.

And it's probably been done, but here's a one piece Mission to Mars:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=310119 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=310119)

And here's the simplest Four Balls I can come up with.  I bet it can be reduced further:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=311028 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=311028)

There is definitely friction; the vehicles wouldn't work otherwise.  There's just no air resistance or microscopic imperfections.

You are right, of course.  Maybe it's more accurate to say that the friction that is present is not as robust as it could be.  Or maybe there is a better word for it.

If you roll a marble across a really smooth floor, it'll keep going for a good long time.  The forces most likely to stop it are air resistance (assuming the air in the room is generally still and not moving along with the marble) and small imperfections in the marble, floor, or both (tiny dents, bits of dust, a sticky spot, anything that might result in a slight collision and redirection or reduction of momentum rather than a perfectly smooth contact).

The game world exists in a vacuum.  All of its round objects are perfectly round, and all of its flat surfaces perfectly flat.  And the wheels have an infinite power source that will accelerate them to arbitrarily high speeds if there's no resistance.  Those are the main things that make some models seem "unrealistic".

4 piece 4 ball  (it eventually gets them all in)
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=312801

Thats 5.

ok, I can't count, this is 4 though:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=317180

This one finally let me figure out how you make the pinwheels freak out: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=283010 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=283010)

--Dave

one piece.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=329100

Not a "minimalist" solution in number of pieces, but an All Sticks Full Up (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=339618). 

Another game to try sometime: Gravity Pods (http://www.wickedpissahgames.com/games/gravitypods/GravityPods.html).

--Dave

EDIT: Top This (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=340014)

I did a one piecer for this two posts above, but yours was pretty clever.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=341418

Pretty sure it's doable with one piece w/o a connection, but I just can't get it myself at the moment.

Fun solution with the unpowered catapault, nice one.

That gravity game was easy, then I hit level 15 and now I have to think a little. Ah, got it. Hmm, the ones after it are easy again...

I just discovered this, http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1338056 (http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1338056).

Uhm, there's a thread somewhere about this game. We played it for a couple of weeks, sharing designs and what not. Not sure where it was, but its worth checking out, some very smart people in f13.

Tell me that was supposed to be ironical. I think (hope), Ookii meant he just discovered this thread.

Oh I thought this was the thread, I just did a search.  :awesome_for_real:

no, I'm just a bimbo

I'm happy with how this solution for Mission to Mars turned out:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=2007855