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	RogerS	2008-04-02 , 15:21
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A couple weeks ago, the Good Morning Silicon Valley newsletter posted a link to a story on Slate (with a devastatingly effective demo on YouTube) of Crayon Physics Deluxe.

Petri Puro, the developer, put it together by himself (it bears similarities to some other gravity-based physics demos/games) and won the "Seamus McNally Grand Prize” — the indie-game equivalent of the Academy Award for best picture"* — at the recent Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.

I downloaded the prototype game Puro wrote, Crayon Physics**, and was blown away by it. So was my son, and we ended up fighting over the mouse to solve the last two levels.

Wow! Crayon Physics is just too much fun to describe (stop now and watch that YouTube demo). OK, Slate comes close: "an ingenious game that looks like it was designed by a third-grader." I immediately wrote Petri Puro and begged him to consider porting Crayon Physics Deluxe to the Nokia internet tablet.

My real thought was "Too bad that Tim Samoff already gave that gift N810 away!" I know that once Petri got an internet tablet in his hands he would realize that the tablet and his game are meant for each other.

Then a thread was started here in the ITT forums about the game — I want this game on my N800!. I'm not the only one who sees the need.

Maybe somebody in the Nokia food chain will realize the same thing when they see Crayon Physics Deluxe demoed and send Petri a tablet.

In the meantime, I'm going to suggest that everyone who thinks likewise write to Petri (hisfirstname dot hislastname at gmail) and to anyone they know at Nokia and tell them the same thing: Crayon Physics and internet tablets belong together.

Let's send Petri a tablet!

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* To quote Chris Baker's original Slate piece.

** Following the precepts of the Experimental Gameplay Project, namely that the game encompass a single theme (i.e., "gravity," "vegetation," "swarms," etc.), be written by a single person, and be completed within one week.

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	Bundyo	2008-04-02 , 15:55
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https://garage.maemo.org/projects/numptyphysics/

Someone named Tim Edmonds is working on such project already... It compiles and already is much fun...

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	Texrat	2008-04-02 , 16:02
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I could get Petri a used 770 easily...

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	Benson	2008-04-02 , 16:07
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I think that's Samoff, not Sarnoff...

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extremefire	2008-04-02 , 16:11
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Going to have to figure out how to compile, haven't delved that much into the n800/linux. This little app looks like it would be a blast.

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iskarion	2008-04-02 , 16:15
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If you like Crayon Physics, you'll probably also like Phun.

Youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0H5g9VS0ENM

You can download Phun for free at
http://phun.cs.umu.se/wiki

Basically the same concept. Didn't have a closer look at this Crayon Physics stuff, but I think Phun is even more powerful as it also supports particle/water simulations.

Though I wouldn't hold my breath to see Phun on the NITs soon, as (at least with extensive particle simulation) it can even bring my 3 GHz P4 down to it's knees.

Edit: just saw, that Phun is already linked in the first post of this thread.

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	Texrat	2008-04-02 , 16:24
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Would a flash version be easier to create?

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	RogerS	2008-04-02 , 16:26
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Originally Posted by Benson

I think that's Samoff, not Sarnoff...

Yes, you're right. I've corrected it.

Thanks for bringing this my attention (especially since it was my inattention that led to the typo).

Roger

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	Bundyo	2008-04-02 , 16:27
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Maybe, but a hell to run on this hardware.

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	RogerS	2008-04-02 , 16:31
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Originally Posted by Bundyo

https://garage.maemo.org/projects/numptyphysics/

Someone named Tim Edmonds is working on such project already... It compiles and already is much fun...

I hope numptyphysics is as much fun and as well thought through as Crayon Physics Deluxe.

But, well, to take a mundane example, there are all sorts of Sudoku implementations and all sorts of Solitaire. And even though they "do the same thing" some aren't worth playing and some are great.

What I know about Crayon Physics and CP Deluxe leads me to trust it'll be great on the IT.

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