Crazy Machines

Crazy Machines
Developer(s)	FAKT Software
Publisher(s)	Novitas Publishing DTP Entertainment Pepper Games Viva Media
Platform(s)	Windows, 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
Genre(s)	Puzzle
Mode(s)	Single-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

• Crazy Machines 2
• The Incredible Machine

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.

External links

• Review in School Library Journal, September 2007.
• Review in Power to Learn.
• Machines is Up to the Challenge Washington Post, March 2006.