Oh, Japan…
…you’re so delightfully, meticulously wacky!
This is amazing for a number of reasons, and oddly game-like: a novel use of ordinary objects, a delightful cycle of build-up and release, a brain tickling use of physics, and a nice, catchy tune that actually becomes more appealing with repetition.
This sort of ‘novel everyday’ use of physics seems to be one of the primary ways in which physics games appeal. In fact, there’s this whole weird subgenre of physics games devoted to rolling balls around and using physics in clever ways, stuff like Ballance and Hamsterball. Seems like these games could learn a lot from this video, don’t you think?
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Yeah, I’ve seen that video before. I was amazed to see some of the ingenuity that went into those creations. Just watching that made me want to pull out some pipe and random junk and make something. It almost reminded me of the game Mousetrap. Cool find Swink
Alas, the link is dead. I had a ton of fun in your game design class on Saturday. Beer and pretzels all around.
Fixed!