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Fantastic Contraption

Northway Games Developer

Northway Games Publisher

2016-04-05 Release

Simulation SingleplayerTags

Game News Posts: 26

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mostly Positive (43 reviews)

http://fantasticcontraption.com

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The Game includes VR Support

Oculus: 1

SteamVR: 1

Room width requirement: 2

Room depth requirement: 1.5

Standing: 1

Seated: 1

Public Linux Depots:

Fantastic Contraption Content LINUX [453.34 M]

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Version 1.0.8 released!

Edit: Minor update to 1.0.9:

Fixed a replay bug causing things to lose their momentum
Enabled haptics

We've been hard at work improving the game based on your feedback and suggestions, so please keep them coming (preferably through the form inside the game!). This update we're addressing a couple common issues (and these are likely related): acknowledging your great achievements and punishing dirty cheaters. First, we've added coloring to the base of the models on the level select table, to indicate whether you've beaten a level, and how well you've beaten it. Because all contraptions are not truly equal, we now assign colors and badges to solutions which show how you've beaten it:

Black - cheater cheater pumpkin eater
Red - cheated but not quite as pumpkin eating
Pink - Victory!
Green - without using any powered wheels
Gold - without any wheels at all
Champ badge (star) - goal ball stays in the goal for 10 seconds
Boomerang badge (boomerang) - entire contraption must return to the build area
Clean badge (arrow) - entire contraption must fall off the island and disappear into oblivion, which takes about 3 seconds

If you cheat horribly (by say putting the goal ball on a stick and placing it in the goal - haha very funny the first time) you'll get a black base on the level select, and Button the Dog will not appear! Take that cheaters! Changes in 1.0.6 - 1.0.8

Level Select represents level progress! Base colour represents if you've finished it. Also if you finished it gree, gold, or cheated
Level Select bases also now has badges for Boomerang, Champ and Clean
Dog doesn't pop up if you cheat (a surprising number of people write us distressed that they can cheat horribly but still progress)
Mixing pass for audio!!
Can't "throw the helmet onto your head". Fixed problems around grabbing things while taking on/off the helmet
Button the dog and Neko's eyes sort correctly in mixed reality
More reliable table flipping
Throw less errors if there are zero hands
Make Twitch logo follow Twitch brand standards
New sounds: grab pin, burrito bite
Mixed Reality mode turns shadows off in headset and on in companion window
Optimisation: batch game and maquette meshes
Fixes to level and player parts not appearing on Maquette. Also throwing the Maquette and hitting play doesn't make it go all wibbly.
Fix to Steam overlay making contraptions hurtle into the air
Fix for sky not initializing properly
Fix for camera-insect not following hand-held camera properly
Fix to save-file formatting
Fix to various bugs around "did you win? and what badges did you get? Did you even make this contraption?"
Fix to loading contraptions saved in the tutorial levels
Fixed bug around resuming replay recording after an existing replay ends
Fix to the goal colour not persisting or persisiting too much

For the next update we're adding features to let you record and publish gifs of your contraptions, and we're improving the game for streaming and videos with new camera stuff. We'll help you unleash your inner cinematographer!

[ 2016-04-21 01:35:21 CET ] [ Original post ]

Fantastic Contraption is surreal building game for Vive VR. Create life-sized machines as tall as you can reach, then send them whirling, flinging, and trundling off to solve puzzles on the other side of a floating island. Your task is simple: get the squishy purple ball to that goal off in the distance, or above you, or on the other side of that gap. And your tools are elegantly minimalist: spinning wheels and stretchable rods. But the solutions are endless, and there are no right or wrong ones.

We've designed this game from the ground up for room-scale VR. Come immerse yourself in a strange skybound archipelago and befriend Neko the photosynthesizing cat. Build contraptions with your own two hands, life sized and as big as horses, right there in front of you. Play with the physics, juggle pieces, throw darts, and feel another world all around you.

Features:

Challenging puzzles. 50 official levels that range from cakewalk to what-the-hell-this-is-impossible-right-tell-me-this-is-impossible. But guess what, it IS possible. I think.
Infinite solutions. Working cars, tanks, catapults, conveyor belts, walking creatures or minimalist structures that use only gravity. Design for elegant simplicity, or build a rattling pile of junk that just barely makes it to the goal. Whatever.
Building with your own hands. Movement so simple and natural you'll forget you're holding controllers. Need a wheel? Just pick it up. Want a longer rod? Just grab an end and stretch. It's like playing with children's blocks, except they're bigger than you are.
Noble ancestry. Fantastic Contraption is the VR evolution of Colin Northway's 2008 2d browser game, played by millions and still playable for free. But don't be fooled, this new game is WAY different.
Full 3d audio and music. Actually, this game has no music. What it does have is musical instruments. Except you have to build them. Well... you'll figure it out.
Surreal and beautiful landscape. Hey guy, chill here awhile, why don't you just lie down in the grass and just listen to the sky whales singing? You'll totally forget the dystopian present and the 300 sqft windowless cube you now live in. Who needs sunlight? VR.
Neko the toolbox. Yes, your toolbox is alive, and he's kind of a green cat blimp thing powered by pink farts. He doesn't seem to mind when you pull off one of his tails or yank a pin out of his head. They grow back pretty fast, so I guess it's okay...
Online sharing. Venture bravely into the dark world-within-a-world to load contraptions made by your friends and also some random people. Marvel at the crazy crap they came up with. Then narrow your eyes and say: I can beat this. I can do better.