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Crazy Machines

Crazy Machines is a puzzle video game created by German studio FAKT Software. Crazy Machines based many of its ideas on The Incredible Machine series of games. The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a Rube Goldberg-style or Heath Robinson-style intricate machine to solve a goal and advance to the next puzzle in the game.

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Crazy Machines
DeveloperFAKT Software
PublishersNovitas Publishing
DTP Entertainment
Pepper Games
Viva Media
PlatformsWindows, MacOS, Nintendo DS, iOS, Wii
Release
October 2005
    • Windows/Mac OS X
      • WW: October 2005
      • WW: December 12, 2008 (Steam, Windows-only)1
      Nintendo DS
      • EU: October 10, 2008
      iOS
      • NA: April 9, 2009
      Wii
      • EU: August 13, 2010
      • NA: June 14, 2011
GenrePuzzle
ModeSingle-player

Crazy Machines is a puzzle video game created by German studio FAKT Software. Crazy Machines based many of its ideas on The Incredible Machine series of games.2 The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a Rube Goldberg-style or Heath Robinson-style intricate machine to solve a goal and advance to the next puzzle in the game.

An iOS version of the game was released in 2009.3

Gameplay

In the game, players build imaginative machines that turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and more to build a unique contraption. The player can solve more than 200 challenging puzzles and experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in a virtual lab. The game uses a physics engine to simulate various in-game variables such as air pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects.

See also

See also

References

References

  1. "Crazy Machines". SteamDB. Retrieved 24 September 2023.
  2. Schiffler, A. New Game Physics: Added Value for Transdisciplinary Teams - Appendix, Crazy Machines, 11 March 2012, Ph.D. Theses, University of Plymouth, UK. Retrieved 23 Feb 2015.
  3. dtp entertainment AG, Crazy Machines: Award-winning physics puzzle is now available for iPhone and iPod Touch Archived 2015-02-23 at the Wayback Machine, Press Release, 23 Apr 2009. Retrieved 23 Feb 2015.
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