Fantastic Contraption (tuxdb.com)

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Hello everyone! We're testing out the new Fantastic Contraption level editor and need your help! To switch to the experimental branch: [olist]

Right-click the game in your Steam client Library view and pick Properties.

Switch to the BETAS tab

Select experimental from the dropdown list (no code/password required)

The game will say [experimental] beside it once you are using the experimental branch. If the game doesn't update right away, you can exit and restart the Steam client to force it to look for the update.

If you find any bugs, please report them from inside the game in the feedback box on your monitor [/olist] To get to the level editor, first put on the helmet to enter the Dark World Menuspace, then put on the mask hovering in the corner over the statue of a sloth. Yes - helmet inception, by popular demand! Ring the bell to summon the Sarahfox (voiced by yours truly) for a short tutorial. Sharing is enabled so you can save and publish your levels online the same way you can share contraptions, except that only people using version 1.6.0 and above will see user-made levels on the save table. If you find any bugs or have suggestions, please send them to us via the in-game "Report a Bug" form on your monitor. We've also fixed a few bugs in 1.6.0 and Lindsay has been adding all kinds of rad touches to the art. Full changelog coming soon.

[ 2016-12-21 20:09:43 CET ] [ Original post ]

Fantastic Contraption

Northway Games Developer

Northway Games Publisher

2016-04-05 Release

Simulation Singleplayer Tags

Game News Posts: 26

🎹🖱️Keyboard + Mouse

Mostly Positive (42 reviews)

http://fantasticcontraption.com

Steam Store

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]

Game is not tagged as available on Linux on Steam.

Linux is not in the OS list.

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.