How many of you want to be able to build a nuclear reactor and watch it have a meltdown (Without jeopardizing the existence of your neighborhood) , and start over from scratch?
How many of you want to make a futuristic city and blow it up in a shower of molten mercury?
How many of you want to make a complicated calculator working on logic gates and half adders?
The Powder Toy is a great physics simulator available in the web, which lets you achieve this and much more.
You can choose from tons of 'elements' and draw them on the screen for endless fun. From simply spamming dust all over the place as you watch a stickman get chased by 'fighters', to boiling water in a pot, to build a realistic arithmetic and logic unit capable of being programmed to process information (Well, that escalated quickly...) , Powder Toy forms a great sandbox where you can unleash your imagination unrestricted.
The elements come in every kind and type, ranging from subatomic particles (Complete with particle accelerators) to the insulators, electricity and wires to help electronics, the indestructible diamond, volatile materials like deuterium and plutonium, life elements that expand based on an algorithm, and pistons to move stuff around.
The download file is a mere 3.79 megabytes in size, and runs right off the bat, without a needlessly complicated installation process. No online version is available at the moment. The program is totally free, and the source code is available in GitHub for aspiring programmers to contribute to the project.
The official website also has a friendly forum where anyone can ask help about anything regarding the game. The Powder Toy has a huge community that constantly makes and uploads saves that can browsed and opened by all users. You can upload your own saves after creating an account. Offline saving allows work in progress projects to be saved and back upped in case a circuit decides to have a meltdown, or a bomb explodes earlier than you intended. With more features like heat and velocity grids, stamp saving and lua support for scripts, there is little you will not find in it.
All this makes Powder Toy a wonderful little software to play around with, and is recommended for everyone to boost their imagination and bolster their understanding of scientific concepts.
How many of you want to make a futuristic city and blow it up in a shower of molten mercury?
How many of you want to make a complicated calculator working on logic gates and half adders?
The Powder Toy is a great physics simulator available in the web, which lets you achieve this and much more.
You can choose from tons of 'elements' and draw them on the screen for endless fun. From simply spamming dust all over the place as you watch a stickman get chased by 'fighters', to boiling water in a pot, to build a realistic arithmetic and logic unit capable of being programmed to process information (Well, that escalated quickly...) , Powder Toy forms a great sandbox where you can unleash your imagination unrestricted.
The elements come in every kind and type, ranging from subatomic particles (Complete with particle accelerators) to the insulators, electricity and wires to help electronics, the indestructible diamond, volatile materials like deuterium and plutonium, life elements that expand based on an algorithm, and pistons to move stuff around.
The download file is a mere 3.79 megabytes in size, and runs right off the bat, without a needlessly complicated installation process. No online version is available at the moment. The program is totally free, and the source code is available in GitHub for aspiring programmers to contribute to the project.
The official website also has a friendly forum where anyone can ask help about anything regarding the game. The Powder Toy has a huge community that constantly makes and uploads saves that can browsed and opened by all users. You can upload your own saves after creating an account. Offline saving allows work in progress projects to be saved and back upped in case a circuit decides to have a meltdown, or a bomb explodes earlier than you intended. With more features like heat and velocity grids, stamp saving and lua support for scripts, there is little you will not find in it.
All this makes Powder Toy a wonderful little software to play around with, and is recommended for everyone to boost their imagination and bolster their understanding of scientific concepts.
