Crazy Machines
Crazy Machines is a puzzle video game created by German studio FAKT Software. Machines based many of its ideas on The Incredible Machine series of games. The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a Rube Goldberg-style or Heath Robinson-style intricate machine to solve a goal and advance to the next puzzle in the game.
Crazy Machines
- Model
- Crazy Machines
- Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Crazy Machines was published by DTP entertainment.
- Language
- English
- Genre
- puzzle video game
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Crazy Machines is a puzzle video game created by German studio FAKT Software. Machines based many of its ideas on The Incredible Machine series of games. The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a Rube Goldberg-style or Heath Robinson-style intricate machine to solve a goal and advance to the next puzzle in the game.
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An iOS version of the game was released in 2009.
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• Title — Crazy Machines • Developer — FAKT Software • Publisher — Novitas Publishing DTP Entertainment Pepper Games Viva Media • Released — * Windows/Mac OS X • Nintendo DSOctober 10, 2008 • iOSApril 9, 2009 • Wii • Genre — Puzzle • Modes — Single-player • Platforms — Windows, MacOS, Nintendo DS, iOS, Wii
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In the game, players build imaginative machines that turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and more to build a unique contraption. The player can solve more than 200 challenging puzzles and experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in a virtual lab. The game uses a physics engine to simulate various in-game variables such as air pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects.
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- 1.Crazy Machines. SteamDB.
- 2.Schiffler, A. New Game Physics: Added Value for Transdisciplinary Teams - Appendix, Crazy Machines, 11 March 2012, Ph.D. Theses, University of Plymouth, UK. Retrieved 23 Feb 2015.
- 3.dtp entertainment AG, Crazy Machines: Award-winning physics puzzle is now available for iPhone and iPod Touch , Press Release, 23 Apr 2009. Retrieved 23 Feb 2015.
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