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Fizziks - A Fun Physics Game!
A fun (and just a little bit crazy) game that - unlike so many games out there - actually pays attention to the laws of Physics! Newton
would be so proud! And if you get tired of playing the game, you can always use the game editor to create your own game levels!Choose A Difficulty Rating
Note: Unrated levels are levels which have not been played enough times to calculate an accurate difficulty rating. These levels will vary in difficulty
from very easy to very hard.
When I was in high school (yes, way back then in the "dark ages!"), computer games had just developed beyond the level
of "Space Invaders" and "Asteroids". The games that were common back then were all called "Side Scrollers". These were games
in which you controlled a character who stayed more or less stationary on the screen while the landscape scrolled by sideways. At the time, as a beginning programmer, I was fascinated by computer programs, and spent a lot of time studying those games, though
I rarely spent my quarters on them! But as a Mathematics and Physics student, I was annoyed by the fact that, in most cases, these games
had an utter disrespect and disregard for the physical laws of the universe. Speeding rockets would stop on a dime and suddenly be going in the
opposite direction at full speed. Objects would free-fall from the sky at a constant velocity...You get the idea. Fizziks and Fizziks 3DOne of the very first computer games I ever wrote, back in high school, was a game I called Fizziks.
in which players rolled a marble around a maze. The game was played using the arrow keys on a keyboard to apply forces to the ball. The resulting
game was unlike most games available at the time, since the ball behaved in a more life-like fashion.Much later I wrote a second version of the game, in which the maze was three dimensional, and rules of gravity applied to the movement of the marble up and down hills. Fizziks Tilt Finally, it's time to rebuild this game for The Problem Site. This version of the game is a cross between a 2D and 3D game. How does that work?
Simple! Though the maze itself is a flat surface, as your marble rolls through the maze, it may hit "triggers" which cause the entire maze to tilt in a variety of different directions. Thus,
the forces of gravity may produce different results each time you play the level.In addition, this new version of the game includes fun things like planets, wind, bonuses, and nasty critters which wander back and forth across your path, making navigation more difficult. Game EditorThis game has a special feature for members at The Problem Site - a game editor which allows members to create their own puzzling and challenging levels and post them
for others to try! (The screenshot earlier on this page is a screenshot of the level editor). |
