Powder Toy

[Nimsical]

A nifty tool that simulates a collection of elements such as Water, Fire, Metal and so many others. You are given the ability to play around with these elements and see their reactions and resemblance to real life elements. You might have seen some games with the same concept, specially in Java, but this one’s a lot more realistic!

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Discuss it here.

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To switch between displaying pressure and displaying air velocity, press 'c' (or on PSP, press SELECT).
To make a line of particle, hold the SHIFT key while clicking and dragging.
To make a box full of particle, hold the CONTROL key while clicking and dragging.
To fill an area with particle, hold both CONTROL and SHIFT while clicking.
Metal, stone, and lava reflect neutrons, while everything else absorbs them.
Items on the lower right (filters, fan, and wall) aren't melted, burned, or transmuted, ever.
To use the awesome new fan, draw something using the fan tool, it's the blue-purple dots on the lower right, to the left of Clear (the rainbow thing). I recommend drawing a circle. Once you've drawn the fan, click it, hold SHIFT, and drag to set its power. It's as easy as that!
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[Adiuvo]

I loved playing this on the web during my computer class. I never grew tired of it.

 

[twelve]

Screenshots?

If it's anything like that Falling Sand flash game then it's a guaranteed time waster.

 

[Adiuvo]

There's a screenshot on the article Nimsical linked to.

I haven't tried it out yet but it does look similar to the falling sand game.

 

[BlackBurd]

Wow this is a great homebrew game.

going down in my favorites.

 

[explosions]

6 PSPs and I can't find one of them. It's pretty sad, really. I know 4 of them are somewhere where I'm not, and I really want to try this. Wow... I haven't been trying to find a PSP this badly in months.

 

[ChurchedAtheist]

I like it. I think if a blob were included like in falling sand it would be schweet.

 

[Nimsical]

Added some tips (from the developer's site) and some screen shots.
It's an awesome game.

 

[MiKeY188]

awesome release man look forward to trying it out

 

[Bran]

I love these things. I have a few beefier physics based ones on my computer, but the sand ones are where it's at.

 

[bri3d]

If you check out my site, there's a Windows, Mac, Linux, IRIX, and HP-UX version up as well.

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Skylark and I are glad to see people like it

 

[MiKeY188]

AWESOME! i just tested both psp and windows. wish it was open source but anyways nice work man.

 

[Nimsical]

If you check out my site, there's a Windows, Mac, Linux, IRIX, and HP-UX version up as well.

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Skylark and I are glad to see people like it

If you started experiencing bandwidth problems, let us know. We'll host the other versions for you.

 

[bri3d]

If you started experiencing bandwidth problems, let us know. We'll host the other versions for you.

Thanks for the offer - I'll be okay on the game binaries though. The largest is the OSX package (since it has both SDL and the game for both Intel and PowerPC Macs) and even it is only like 400KB.

 

[EvilSeph]

hey bri3d, nice to see you here.

Are you guys accepting suggestions for this great game of yours?

Keep up the great work. Hope to see more things from you

 

[bri3d]

If Skylark has time, really good ideas might make it into the PC version.

It'd take something *amazing* to get me to make a new PSP build - I accidentally lost my source in a disk accident a few weeks ago so I'd have to spend a few hours rewriting it lol.

And thanks Seph, I like what you've got going here

 

[Chathurga]

The new explosion effects are awesome and, at times, pretty creepy too:

I doubt they'll make it to the PSP though, right?

 

[RoBz]

Such a great time waster. Nice one fellas.
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[Zero]

I love this thing. I've spent waaayyyy to much time on it already. Thanks for the find. The new download mode is a welcoe addition.

 

[Freshmilk]

I tried this out on my PSP yesterday, but it wasn't of much use to me, because my analog stick doesn't work properly. Still, I liked the idea of it though, and I did spend about 20 minutes just messing about with it until I gave up. Good port, but I think I'll opt for the windows version. Thanks! :tup: