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NEO from Qrrbrbirlbel Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
#1: May 20th 2012 at 8:18:56 AM

This.

One of the many wonderful things I found about in TV Tropes, this is a "falling sand game", an app consisting on positioning pixels from various materials on the screen and seeing what happens upon the effects of gravity, chemistry, heat and pressure. It's a lot like a loose physics sim, but actually, addicting, real-time interactive and pretty easy to learn (compared to professional physics software).

Thing is, people use this one to create pretty awesome stuff ranging from pixel art to realistic 2D simulations to freaking computers (some creations deserve an IJAM thread for themselves). I myself created a shoddy distillator that actually works fine! (although there are already tons of better ones online)

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Yinyang107 from the True North (Decatroper) Relationship Status: Tongue-tied
#2: May 21st 2012 at 3:21:19 PM

Oh man this thing. This is the best thing. If only I knew what the fuck I'm doing.

NEO from Qrrbrbirlbel Since: Oct, 2009 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
#3: May 22nd 2012 at 4:19:15 PM

[up] lol that was my initial reaction too, don't panic.

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HibernoBrony More inhuman scum? NEXT! Since: Mar, 2012
More inhuman scum? NEXT!
#4: May 22nd 2012 at 4:58:05 PM

Ah, Powder Toy. Once you play with this thing, it's mighty hard to go back to those online falling sand games.

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The_Mattias On this day, nothing was regretted. from the Redshirt XX Since: Apr, 2015 Relationship Status: Above such petty unnecessities
On this day, nothing was regretted.
#5: May 9th 2015 at 7:39:14 AM

*Bump*

Found out about this game when a friend installed Steam on a flash drive for me, and left this as a backup game for downloads and stuff. After eventually figuring out what was happening, I found this game absolutely fun as hell. Managed to build a rocket engine after a while. grin

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