When you play it, you will sh*t bricks...

Genghiz Cohen · 28-08-2008 2:16pm #1

Fans of Bridge Builder (Point fix , Bridge it!), Armadillo Run and the Incredible Machine, hear my call!

The Fantastic Contraption is here (On Addicting Games) and it kicks ass!

Link

Save your solutions and post them up here (In built save function BTW).

That is all.

Stephen · 28-08-2008 2:37pm

More wheels = good

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=991585

Zillah · 28-08-2008 3:43pm

This is amazing. I clicked the link out of curiosity and it was twenty minutes before I came back to the thread.

Genghiz Cohen · 28-08-2008 3:59pm

I know right!?
If anyone gets unpossible giev some help.

EDIT: Got it Link

Cuddlesworth · 28-08-2008 4:57pm

Got them all before. The physics engine is fairly broken when you start to put tension on the joints. Check out the spring theory in the game to see what I mean.

Genghiz Cohen · 28-08-2008 5:39pm

Finished it there, U-Turn was a bastard, but simplicity is always best.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=998419

Nick_oliveri · 28-08-2008 6:42pm

Almost lifelike, although it failed. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1000386

Retr0gamer · 28-08-2008 7:23pm

Can't for the life of me get that one

Zillah · 28-08-2008 7:24pm

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

Almost lifelike, although it failed. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1000386

You need to build a drill type contraption for that one. Put a row of backwards wheels along the top so it burrows beneath the ball.

I am very stuck on "Handling". Down Under was very hard too but I got it in the end.

EDIT: Nevermind, just got it with a remarkably simple design: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1002751

Retr0gamer · 28-08-2008 7:59pm

Got that one myself eventually.Used a nice pendulum

used Nick_oliveri's design as a template.

The Roach · 28-08-2008 8:43pm

I found this a few weeks ago and got completely hooked. On my recent run through it I tried to make the most basic solution possible, which turned out to be damn hard!

Here are some of my results:
Reach Up
Mind The Gap
Junkyard
The Wall
On a Roll
Full Up
Higher
Around the Bend
Up the Hump
Mission to Mars
Up the Stairs
Big Ball
Four Balls
Down Under
Awash
Handling
Tube
Back and Forth
U-Turn

Nick_oliveri · 28-08-2008 9:38pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Nick_oliveri's design as a template.

Really?? I was just messing around after i got sick of failure. :pac:

Edit lol: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1009582

Still havent got it.

Edit2:http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1010415

Rhyme · 28-08-2008 9:52pm

Nick_oliveri wrote: »

Really?? I was just messing around after i got sick of failure. :pac:

Same here actually. Made a collapsing wood pillar that fell and lodged under the falling ball and then the turning wheels you put into place (changed the rear wheels a bit) simply pushed the ball up. Nice.

Retr0gamer · 28-08-2008 10:37pm

Rhyme wrote: »

Same here actually. Made a collapsing wood pillar that fell and lodged under the falling ball and then the turning wheels you put into place (changed the rear wheels a bit) simply pushed the ball up. Nice.

I did kind of similar but instead of using cogs to move the ball up I had a big pendulum at the back swinging around mad from a yellow cog attached to a purple one that would keep shunting the goal piece under the ball. Took awhile but it went in eventually. It wasn't very subtle though.

Rhyme · 29-08-2008 12:15am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I did kind of similar but instead of using cogs to move the ball up I had a big pendulum at the back swinging around mad from a yellow cog attached to a purple one that would keep shunting the goal piece under the ball. Took awhile but it went in eventually. It wasn't very subtle though.

Aye, same with me. Sat there for a good 2 or 3 minutes watching the ball inch up and up

Fanny Cradock · 29-08-2008 2:07am

Just because it took me so long to position the balls correctly:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1022863

madrab · 29-08-2008 7:30am

been playing this game pretty much non stop for the last week, even bought the full version

such a class game (and im able to get into it in work

)

Fnz · 31-08-2008 6:39am

Fanny Cradock wrote: »

Just because it took me so long to position the balls correctly:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1022863

Ha, nice! Here's the monstrousity I created to get past 'Four Balls'.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1118060

... all skill.

Congrats to The Roach on his/her elegant solution.

Dave147 · 31-08-2008 7:19am

Yeah, can we get another feature in there..? "Not for drunk people" would work pretty well I think..

bombidol · 01-09-2008 9:26am

how do i beat level 12?

Creature · 01-09-2008 12:18pm

bombidol wrote: »

how do i beat level 12?

Make a tank

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1083826.

bombidol · 01-09-2008 12:34pm

Sorry level 13! not 12

Creature · 01-09-2008 12:58pm

In that case, make a gun

. http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1084016

The Roach · 01-09-2008 6:18pm

Fnz wrote: »

Congrats to The Roach on his elegant solution.

Thanks, it took an absolute age to get working!

Ciaran500 · 01-09-2008 6:20pm

bombidol wrote: »

Sorry level 13! not 12

I did it using a wedge shaped car with a reverse wheel on the front to pick up the ball.

Zillah · 01-09-2008 6:55pm

Creature wrote: »

In that case, make a gun . http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1084016

Thats ingenius. I used a digging machine for mine.

This makes me think that it could be interesting if we post our bizarre solutions. This I think is some what bizarre.

Oh, and I'm very proud of this one.

And this must be the most stupid hamfisted solution that just about worked anyway.

Did anyone have a more elegant solution for this one?

Fanny Cradock · 02-09-2008 12:29am

Zillah wrote: »

Did anyone have a more elegant solution for this one?

No. Much more convoluted.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1190133

Fnz · 02-09-2008 10:27am

Creature wrote: »

Make a tank http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1083826.

Creature wrote: »

In that case, make a gun . http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1084016

I'm starting to see a pattern here. Your military knowledge allow you to 'Nuke' the last stage?

Btw: What you created, to squeeze your way to victory in level 13, is surely more an "artificial colon" than a "gun".

mawk · 02-09-2008 8:33pm

heh, found this thread last night, beat them all before falling asleep really late. good game.

trying a few again today and this one came out of awash

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=1217625

doesnt work like it was supposed to but it certainly gets there and looks weird doing it

Soby · 03-09-2008 6:00pm

great find:D..im hooked

When you play it, you will sh*t bricks...

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