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[icuurd12b42]

Made it to "Go Up".
My mind has exploded.

http://cid-fba0b7e57cc98d0a.office.live.com/self.aspx/Public/TheMaschine/goup.jpg

When you get to Vertical Catapult, you'll want to throw yourself off that Long Bridge

Still stuck on that Elevator one, last of the easy ones. I could not build the thing in the video. My crap keeps getting suck, falling appart or breaking

Edited by icuurd12b42, 22 August 2010 - 03:02 AM.

[santa22]

these kind of puzzle games are fun

[Maarten Baert]

When you get to Vertical Catapult, you'll want to throw yourself off that Long Bridge

Still stuck on that Elevator one, last of the easy ones. I could not build the thing in the video. My crap keeps getting suck, falling appart or breaking

I'll give you a hint: My solution uses 2 beams and 3 rods (no bolts).

[icuurd12b42]

Well, I've done all but vertical catapult. All my solutions. I feel prety good now. Marteen... You have a twisted mind. Good for designing puzzles!

[Artaex Media]

Awesome! But very hard though! (Stuck at 'Another Frozen Item', 'Frozen Motor' & 'Elevator'...)

[njp]

this is really nice

[Maarten Baert]

I've just uploaded a new version, now gravity is disabled while building. This should make the building phase a lot less annoying .

The save files are compatible with the old version, so you can just copy the 'save' folder to the new version (or overwrite the executable and the 'data' folder) to continue.

EDIT: I've found a bug, the antigravity blocks acted like normal blocks. I've fixed this now, but anyone who has downloaded the game between 6:00 PM and 11:10 PM (GMT+2) should download it again.

Edited by Maarten Baert, 28 August 2010 - 09:13 PM.

[theludicrous]

Ah, this new update helps a lot, I have beaten all the challenges!

[petenka]

I'm stuck on the 2 levels with springs, spring and catapult.
I did all the other "easy" levels fine.

EDIT: Nevermind, I figured them out myself =D

Edited by petenka, 26 September 2010 - 07:29 PM.

[Robert3DG+]

Really fun! Excellent work!

[petenka]

I solved everyone but the last two.
Critical timing and impossible...
They're definitely possible, just really really difficult.

[icuurd12b42]

I solved everyone but the last two.
Critical timing and impossible...
They're definitely possible, just really really difficult.

Left ball, catapult, into top door, but not directly. it needs to be delayed somehow
Middle ball, ramp + jump to middle door
right ball, freefall + bank shot into bottom door.
Free standing objects can help tweak the direction, slow down of accelerate the ball, say to just force it to make it to or to stay on the ledge

Impossible... Left ball into basket under neath, needs hanging structures
right ball into basket in room on the left. Need cataput took me ages to make th ball bounce off right after catapult
bottom ball, a simple ramp

Edited by icuurd12b42, 29 September 2010 - 03:30 AM.

[Maarten Baert]

Left ball, catapult, into top door, but not directly. it needs to be delayed somehow
Middle ball, ramp + jump to middle door
right ball, freefall + bank shot into bottom door.
Free standing objects can help tweak the direction, slow down of accelerate the ball, say to just force it to make it to or to stay on the ledge

Funny, that's not what I did at all . I used
left ball -> bottom door
middle ball -> middle door
right ball -> top door
and I added some beams to delay the middle ball, and lots of beams to delay the right ball.

[icuurd12b42]

Funny, that's not what I did at all . I used
left ball -> bottom door
middle ball -> middle door
right ball -> top door
and I added some beams to delay the middle ball, and lots of beams to delay the right ball.

My original attempt was like that... I just could not position things properly. So I thought the logical evident method your say here was a trap solution.

[petenka]

I won teh game =D
Definitely tricky to beat but now that I've done the hard levels the easy ones seem, well, easy.

[chance]

I've played this a few time and I'm more amazed each time. Your physics engine (extreme_physics) is fantastic. This really should get more attention.

[Qon]

Soooo easy, the challange is doing what I do, mastering the maps ;D
I'm going to show you a video just how much I pwn ya all!
Teaser (not writing all of them):
0 parts: Elevator,
1 part: Go up, Minimal, Frozen Item, Lol u died.
2 parts: Items, Frozen Motor, Spring, Vertical catapult, Critical Timing.
3 parts: Catapult
other: 5 part Very long bridge, 4 part Timing, 8 part impossible
^^ beat that!

(parts = beams)

Edited by Qon, 18 December 2010 - 11:58 AM.

[skullnbones]

Great game! I made it through all the levels:

spoiler

It is rare to find a strategy game that allows for so many diverse solutions to each puzzle.

[Mysteria9]

This is one of the best puzzle games I've ever seen. I would buy this if it wasn't free!
I've had a day off today, and I've done nothing but playing this game (well, I've eaten and walked the dog but nothing more^^) since 1000 this morning. And now I finally beat it! =D It's been a wonderful day ^______^

Edited by Mysteria9, 08 April 2011 - 06:32 PM.

[NpN Games]

The error after downloading and running the ZIP:

!   D:\Downloads\the-machine.zip: The archive is either in unknown format or damaged