- Crayon Physics
Infobox VG |title= Crayon Physics
developer=Petri Purho
designer=Petri Purho
engine=Box2D
released=June 1 ,2007
genre=Video puzzle game
modes=Single-player
platforms= Windows,iPhone Crayon Physics is a
freeware puzzle game designed byPetri Purho and released onJune 1 ,2007 . Its object is to guide a ball to a goal point marked by a star or, in the final level, multiple stars. The player does not have direct control over the ball, but can interact with it by drawing shapes with the mouse (e.g., ramps to allow the ball to roll from one platform to another). In this way it is both reminiscent of puzzle games likeMarble Madness andSuper Monkey Ball and adventure games such asOkami andMagic Pengel .The Prototype
The original game was developed in five dayscite web|url=http://www.slate.com/id/2186848/ |title=Crayon Physics Deluxe, an ingenious video game that looks like it was designed by a third-grader |accessdate=2008-03-20 |author=Chris Baker |date=
2008-03-19 |pages=2 |publisher=Slate (magazine) ] using resources freely available under theCreative Commons license. The game was inspired by descriptions Purho had heard of the children's book "Harold and the Purple Crayon " and is Purho's tenth "rapid-prototype project" inspired by the rules of the Experimental Game Project. OnJune 10 2007 , Purho announced that he would be developing a level editor to permit user-created levels, although byJune 15 members of the Crayon Physics fanbase had already worked out theXML in which the levels were coded and had released new levels for the game. The level editor was released onJune 30 .Crayon Physics Deluxe
On
October 12 2007 , Purho revealed that he had secretly been developing Crayon Physics Deluxe, which will feature an intuitive level editor, more levels, and a modification to the physics engine which better preserves a player's drawings instead of squaring them off. No release date has yet been announced. It would come out in PC platform starting from $20 at www.kloonigames.com. It won the Seumas McNally grand prize at theIndependent Games Festival in February 2008.Chris Baker of "Slate" wrote that "Crayon Physics Deluxe" was more talked about than "
Gears of War 2 " at the 2008Game Developers Conference .References
ee also
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Microsoft Physics Illustrator External links
* [http://www.kloonigames.com/crayon/ Kloonigames' Crayon Physics Deluxe site] The official Kloonigames website for Crayon Physics Deluxe.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsTqspnvAaI Gameplay of Crayon Physics Deluxe using a touchscreen] onYouTube
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