Awesome game that I suck at

[TMF Jeff]

I want so badly to be good at this, but I just don't seem to have the kind of engineering mind it takes 🙂

http://www.fantasticcontraption.com/

It's a deceptively simple idea... using some basic building blocks, you have to build an engineering device to get an object to the goal zone.

In their forum, people build the most amazingly complex machines with pulleys, catapults, tracks, and moving parts, but that kind of complexity completely eludes me. All I can come up with are brute force solutions. Which is probably not an entirely bad metaphor for my life 😎

 

[Bugman]

In their forum, people build the most amazingly complex machines with pulleys, catapults, tracks, and moving parts, but that kind of complexity completely eludes me. All I can come up with are brute force solutions. Which is probably not an entirely bad metaphor for my life 😎

Same here Jeff.When all else fails get a BFH.🙂

 

[Deleted member 66627]

Holy shit. This game is awesome. It slows the hell out of my compuer though, so I couldn't play for that long. 🙁

 

[TMF Jeff]

Holy shit. This game is awesome. It slows the hell out of my compuer though, so I couldn't play for that long. 🙁

There's a button on the bottom left that simplifies the graphics, that might help 🙂

 

[TMF Jeff]

Here are a couple that I'm not too embarassed to share:


A two stage effort:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5715268

This one I'm kind of proud of because it didn't work until I figured out that adding the reverse-spinning wheels could contribute power to the forward-spinning ones:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5715985

(It also doesn't work if I put the ball anywhere but the middle, it contributes a stabilizing weight.)

 

[ViperGTS]

I am so in love. I will post my contraptions in a bit, after I am satisfied with my genius.

 

[The Fallen Angel]

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5717323

its not pretty but it worked

 

[TMF Jeff]

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5717323

its not pretty but it worked

That is fucking cool!

 

[TMF Jeff]

This is an expansion on the idea of using opposing wheels to generate power:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5716753

 

[slacker2114]

DAMN you, Jeff!! Now I'm hooked on it.

 

[TMF Jeff]

DAMN you, Jeff!! Now I'm hooked on it.

I like to spread the suffering around 🙂

 

[LeeAllure]

This is excellent. I like seeing what others have done,
but most of mine seem pretty simplistic.

 

[BrightEyes1082]

^^

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5718601

 

[TMF Jeff]

^^

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5718601

Never say die 😎

 

[slacker2114]

^^

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5718601

BWAHAHAHAHA....EPIC WIN FOR MONDY!!

Assuming, of course, you don't care that it didn't work. 😀

 

[TMF Jeff]

BWAHAHAHAHA....EPIC WIN FOR MONDY!!

Assuming, of course, you don't care that it didn't work. 😀

It's that last pink wheel, sloooowly drifting off the other side of the cliff, that makes it genius.

 

[manic971]

Dear Jeff,

Thanks for helping me kill the last hour of my life.

Sincerely,
Manic

 

[BrightEyes1082]

Never say die 😎

BWAHAHAHAHA....EPIC WIN FOR MONDY!!

Assuming, of course, you don't care that it didn't work. 😀

 

[slacker2114]

FINALLY!!!

After 30 minutes, I got over the gap.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5719117

 

[BrightEyes1082]

It's that last pink wheel, sloooowly drifting off the other side of the cliff, that makes it genius.

O NOES! If you click start, my entire contraption falls apart!
Except for... yeah... the last pink wheel. Sonofabitch.

 

[TMF Jeff]

O NOES! If you click start, my entire contraption falls apart!
Except for... yeah... the last pink wheel. Sonofabitch.

I love you for not even knowing that until now 🙂

 

[TMF Jeff]

FINALLY!!!

After 30 minutes, I got over the gap.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5719117

Nice placement on that middle wheel 🙂

 

[simulated]

I'm studying mechanical engineering, and this game has been running on a computer in our lab for as long as I can remember. Being good engineers, all our solutions were ridiculously over the top.

Here's my favorite, it took a while >.>

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1969781

 

[TMF Jeff]

I'm studying mechanical engineering, and this game has been running on a computer in our lab for as long as I can remember. Being good engineers, all our solutions were ridiculously over the top.

Here's my favorite, it took a while >.>

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1969781

Holy fuck! I'm blown away! This is exactly the sort of thing I would love to be able to do 🙂

 

[TMF Jeff]

A couple more, two solutions to the same map 🙂

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5717484

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=5717120