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A Serious Game To Get A Sense Of The Brain Work That Is Going On


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Crayon Physics Deluxe , from Kloonigames, is a 2D physics puzzle game, in which you get to experience what it would be like if your drawings would be magically transformed into real physical objects. Solve puzzles with your artistic vision and creative use of physics.
Crayon Physics Deluxe lets you draw objects on the screen by clicking and dragging your mouse, or by drawing with the stylus of a tablet PC, as in the below video. The objects you scrawl become part of the game world.

The goal is to create objects that propel a crudely drawn ball toward a crudely drawn star. There is no single correct way to scoot that ball around; the fun is in exploring the options.

Within seconds of hitting start, you're furiously scribbling blocks and ramps and wedges and seesaws, whatever it takes to reach the goal. Some players may get sidetracked creating hilariously inefficient Rube Goldberg devices. Others will forget the objectives altogether and just draw.

If you want to try it yourself, you can download a simpler demo version of the game here.


It's worth mentioning that Crayon Physics Deluxe won the Grand Prize at the 10th annual Independent Games Festival (2008 IGF), which held its awards ceremony on February 20, as part of the Game Developers Conference