{"id":153,"date":"2008-10-24T23:08:26","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T04:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-02-16T20:01:13","modified_gmt":"2009-02-17T01:01:13","slug":"fantastic-contraption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lowtek.ca\/roo\/2008\/fantastic-contraption\/","title":{"rendered":"Fantastic Contraption"},"content":{"rendered":"

I ran into this flash based web game a while back, it sucked up a couple of nights while I compulsively played through the first 18 levels. I was going to post about it back then, but decided against it as there are plenty of other discussions about fantastic contraption<\/a> out there already.<\/p>\n

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For the geek crowd, it should probably be renamed to fanatic compulsion.\u00a0 Today I saw that two of my coworkers had just recently come across it (one of them with a physics background no less!) – they were both clearly trapped by this meme<\/a>-like game.\u00a0 Consider this posting a warning – it is a huge time suck.<\/p>\n

The game allows users to save their contraptions, and share them with others via a link – so a little internet searching will find you solutions to view if you need hints.\u00a0 As well, once you complete a level, you can see the solutions others have saved.\u00a0 Pretty neat how 5 simple elements can be combined to create so many solutions.<\/p>\n

Astute readers may notice that I’ve posted a Google Chrome<\/a> screen capture.\u00a0 This was actually taken running on Ubuntu using Wine<\/a>.\u00a0 Instructions came via LifeHacker<\/a>, but be warned lots of things don’t work (like any https:\/\/ connections).\u00a0 There is of course also CrossOver Chromium<\/a>, but this is basically Wine linked to Chrome – so it suffers the same shortfalls.\u00a0 I used Chrome here because for whatever reason, the flash engine included with the Wine setup is much faster than the one embedded in my Firefox (same machine).\u00a0 I have more opinions on Chrome, but will save them for a future discussion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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