The Powder Toy - November 2012
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Have you ever wanted to blow something up? Or maybe you always dreamt of operating an atomic power plant? Do you have a will to develop your own CPU? The Powder Toy lets you to do all of these, and even more!
The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! The game provides you with various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components which can be used to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains and almost anything else. You can then mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen or operate your machine. You can browse and play thousands of different saves made by the community or upload your own – we welcome your creations!
There is a Lua API – you can automate your work or even make plugins for the game. The Powder Toy is free and the source code is distributed under the GNU General Public License, so you can modify the game yourself or help with development. Tpt is compiled using scons.
Stanislaw K Skowronek - Designed the original Simon Robertshaw Skresanov Savely cracker64 Catelite Bryan Hoyle Nathan Cousins jacksonmj Lieuwe Mosch Anthony Boot Matthew Miller MaksProg jacob1
Click on the elements with the mouse and draw in the field, like in MS Paint. The rest of the game is learning what happens next.
TAB Switch between circle/square/triangle brush Space Pause Q Quit Esc Quit Z Zoom S Save stamp (+ Ctrl when STK2 is out) L Load last saved stamp K Stamp library 1-9 Set view mode P Save screenshot to .png F Pause and go to next frame G Increase grid size Shift + G Decrease grid size H Show/Hide HUD Ctrl + H Show intro text F1 Show intro text D Debug mode (+ Ctrl when STK2 is out) I Invert Pressure and Velocity map W Toggle gravity modes (+ Ctrl when STK2 is out) Y Toggle air modes Ctrl + B Toggle decorations on/off U Toggle ambient heat on/off Ctrl + I Install powder toy, for loading saves/stamps by double clicking ~ Console = Reset pressure and velocity map Ctrl + = Reset Electricity [ Decrease brush size ] Increase brush size Alt + [ Decrease brush size by 1 Alt + ] Increase brush size by 1
Ctrl + C/V/X Copy/Paste/Cut Ctrl + Z Undo Ctrl + Cursor drag Rectangle Shift + Cursor drag Line Middle click Sample element Alt + Left click Sample element Mouse scroll Change brush size Ctrl + Mouse scroll Change vertical brush size Shift + Mouse scroll Change horizontal brush size Shift + Ctrl + R Horizontal mirror for selected area Ctrl + R Rotate selected area counterclockwise
Only the left Ctrl, Shift, and Alt buttons are enabled to work, not the ones on the right
scale:1 Normal window resolution
scale:2 Doubled window resolution
kiosk Fullscreen mode
proxy:server[:port] Proxy server to use [Example: proxy:wwwcache.lancs.ac.uk:8080]
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