Sometimes "tech" just look like magic...Follow

I don't know how many of you have seen this already, but it's new to me.

Here is a 3 minute video of two well known and old computer software technologies put together, to create something utterly simple and yet, to me, intensely charming and magical.

Crayon Physics Deluxe.

Here is a simpler, free, prototype version of the game featured in the video, if you want to try it yourself: Linky.

The full version of the game featured in the video isn't actually finished, apparently. But you can sign up to be informed when it is: Linky.

Any technology, when it is sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.

Nice to know we are walking down that route.

Nicely done game, as well.

That's kinda cute; I hope it's around in three years when I start teaching the baby how to use the computer.

Any technology, when it is sufficiently advanced, is indistinguishable from magic.


Yeah, no shit, asshole. That was the allusion made in the thread title, and while there it would have been pointless and inconvenient to credit Clarke with the quote, you not doing so in your post just makes you an unoriginal fucking plagiarist.

Good first impression.

There is a version of this game already available for the iPhone and the iPod Touch if you have "jailbroken" it to allow 3rd party apps. It also utilizes the tilt feature, so you can tilt the iPod to make shapes move downward. Both the standard levels and the "sandbox" mode are great fun.

Imagine: the more mana points you have, the larger a boulder you can draw above a mob to drop on it.

Nifty video and I generally hate randomly posted YouTube videos.

I didn't try the prototype game largely because I knew it wouldn't live up to the game shown.

*shoots crayon at Paulso for 4 points damage*

/Movie Matinee medieval duelist's voice

"Take that, Hah Hah!"