Phun
Ever wish your childhood drawings could come to life? So did these guys… and they decided to go out and do something about it. Phun is a 2d “crayon physics” engine that’s significantly more fun than the title implies. Sure there are no crates to knock around or ragdolls to blow up…. but it’s just phun, k?

Fantastic Contraption
Fantastic Contraption decides to go one step farther than Phun and turn simple polygon physics into an actual game. The objective is simply to put an object into the “end area”. Seems pretty simple, right?

SodaPlay
SodaPlay was actually the first of these kind of toys I stumbled across, when I was hanging out on #truevision3d dabbling in gamedev in college. It’s actually a pretty ingenious concept really… it uses a physics engine based around lines and points to allow you to create various contraptions, from simple machines to seriously complex roller coasters. Ah, the time I wasted with this.

This is probably a good a time as any to spam some videos of my gamedev/physics tinkerings from college. Do yourself a favor and let them load before pressing play… youtube seems to be acting a bit wierd with the high quality embed settings.

I wrote this 2d pseudophysics engine myself:

These were made using the Truevision3d engine, which, sad to say, has essentially become vaporware: