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The Blob Toy
- bze12 3y agoThis reminds me of jellycar. the creator made some great YouTube videos recently about the physics of it. https://youtu.be/3OmkehAJoyo https://youtu.be/3OmkehAJoyo
- willio58 3y agoWorks surprisingly well on mobile!
- malephex 3y agoDope.
- atan2 3y agoVery cool.
- Daub 3y agoA Very intuitive GUI. Was able to get up and running within seconds.
- icameron 3y agoThank you for sharing. This is the most fun I've had on a webpage in a while!
- adonovan 3y agoSame! It’s amazing how many physical phenomena it accurately models: convection, boiling, pressure, temperature, capacitance, turbulence, tension, elasticity, gravity, and so on. Our phones really are supercomputers.
- user68858788 3y agoLove it.
- AceJohnny2 3y agooimo.io has a lot of really cool, often interactive, often 3D tech demos. Their recursive Conway's Game of Life was featured on HN before: https://oimo.io/works/life/ https://oimo.io/works/life/ Hell, even their front-page looks amazing : https://oimo.io https://oimo.io
- tbm57 3y agoIs blob toy Turing complete?
- skhm 3y agogive it an unlimited canvas, and tap a lot to simulate a constant flow, and you can chain gates per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics
- hyperific 3y agoYou can make the balloons bigger by long pressing
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- donaldbough 3y agoSo fun!
- Bondi_Blue 3y agoReminds me a bit of an early iOS game, a tiny sandbox, called Aquaforest. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vewtcd7nBLk&pp=ygUOYXF1YWZvcmVzdCBpb3M%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vewtcd7nBLk&pp=ygUOYXF1YWZvcmV...
- Unai 3y agoReminds me of that sand game, I don't remember the name, maybe just "Sand" or "Falling sand" or similar? I know there were a bunch of different versions of it, with a lot of different materials you could draw on the screen, and they interacted with each other in very interesting ways; not just gravity, but there was also a "plant" material that would grow when in touch with water, fire would burn it, gas would explote, etc. Anyone knows what I'm talking about? This was many many years ago, but I would love to try it again, although I don't see myself spending the amount of time I did back in the day creating complex mechanisms.
- nickgros 3y agoOther commenters have pointed out the original, but I just wanted to suggest checking out the game Noita, which is an exploration/roguelike set in a world that mechanically operates like the falling sand game.
- LoganDark 3y agoThe Powder Toy? > The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! The game provides you with various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components which can be used to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains and almost anything else. You can then mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen or operate your machine. You can browse and play thousands of different saves made by the community or upload your own – we welcome your creations!
- mafuku 3y agoThe one I knew was called Powder Game[1]. I used to play it a lot in the elementary school computer room. [1] https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/ https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/
- Unai 3y agoCan't edit on the app I'm using, but I found this implementation of the game I was talking about: https://www.silvergames.com/en/falling-sand https://www.silvergames.com/en/falling-sand. Not the original, but it has all the elements I remember, plus some interesting things like wind. And works decently on my phone.
- emmelaich 3y agoAuthor has some nice examples on Twitter, e.g. https://twitter.com/shr_id/status/1679502736222740480 https://twitter.com/shr_id/status/1679502736222740480
- tombert 3y agoThis kind of reminds me of an art thing from ~18 years ago called “ball droppings”. It was fun, I should dig that up. https://web.archive.org/web/20060110050806/http://www.balldroppings.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060110050806/http://www.balldr...
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- ta988 3y agoAll the projects of this person are amazing have a look at their website clicking on the top right of the page.
- ta988 3y agohttps://oimo.io/works https://oimo.io/works
- Toutouxc 3y agoThere was an amazing physics sandbox game called Algodoo (formerly Phun), it’s been abandoned I think, but the last version is still playable and even available on iPad.
- krylon 3y agoThis is so much fun. One of the things both kids and adults find enjoyable. :)
- parasti 3y agoBy far the most impressive thing here, to me, is the fact that my phone does not heat up at all. Literally every other web based game or toy causes it to heat up. How is this possible?
- DrIronstein 3y agoI like this. No goal, no score, no timer. You can just play around and see stuff happen. Reminds me a bit of the game "Liquid War" where you try to surround your opponent by circling in his tiny blobs and convert them to your color. Wonderful game.
- xyproto 3y agoHow come the performance is so smooth?