Be Excellent To Each Other

My solution for back and forth.

Malc

This is the awesomest level two solution ever.

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=108850

MrD: Did you mean to post the Rev's link in again?

I am trying soemthing similar to wallop all the balls out of the pen for Four Balls, but I can't get it to work... YET.

Ooops. I meant http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=89192

PS Thanks Dimrill for *wasting my life*

Ace.

If you press Back after that finishes you can keep watching while mr Red keeps kicking Mr Blue for ages, before falling over and trying in vain to right himself.

I built an awesome horse yesterday to do one of the easy levels (the one where someone built a hangman). It actually looked a bit like a horse, as was the intention, it had four legs with wheels on and a tail. Unfortunately, it kept on falling over backwards, so to get it to make it over the nasty blocks I had to put a wheel on the end of its tail too. It looked a little less like a horse then, but I was still pretty happy with it. I then, of course, forgot to save it.

I did go back and tried to make a working giraffe... but it kept on falling over backwards due to the ridiculously long neck.

my eventual solution

after messing around with 3 windmill type things, that only ever managed to get 3 balls in.

Just need to work out how to do the last one now.

Malc

You can only get three of the balls in?

Why don't you drag the last remaining ball into the pit yourself?

I got them all in in the end. just not with the three windmills.

Malc

Hooray. I've finally done four balls.

It does work, eventually.

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=110333

Mr D's design doesn't seem to work on my PC, I end up with the last ball trapped in the bottom left.

And neither does Rev's, unless somehow it eventually rescues that ball from the bottom of the pit, which I doubt

Weird, it always works on mine. It just takes a long time.

I have no idea how to do Down Under, though.

I'm desperately trying to come up with a way to do Four Balls without treadmills. I'm looking at buckets, runaway minetrains and flippers. I will post my findings if anything works.

Haha, that's another "not as difficult as it looks" one

Yeah it's definitely buggy. I just re-ran one of mine that finished "Awash" and it didn't work.

EDIT : And then failed in a different way the next time.

Everyone try my solution

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=110807

Does it work on yours?

I posted one on the last page, it's a lot easier than most of the other solutions I've seen (if a little boring).

I just view that as an amount of real world uncertainty. If you make something extremely flaky with complex moving parts, there's no way it would work exactly the same twice anyway.

That said, I did see one saved design which managed to be so complicated and heavy that it sawed its way through the landscape, which it probably shouldn't have been able to.

Heh.

Mine just worked on run 4.

Ha! Yeees! One involving flipper stars that's really bloody quick:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=110945

Hah nope, it got on top of the last few balls near the top and shot off backwards down the hill at an amusing rate of knots

Drop the nose a mil to make it more reliable maybe.

[edit, bugger, said I wasn't going to run this here didn't I?]

Hah, that was roughly the first of my two failures, made me giggle too

But it's worked 2/4 on my machine now

I can't see your posted solution. Got a link?

I only described it. Here 'tis though.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=97510

Excellent

Not as quick as mine though. I'm well proud of that now.

Hey that looks cool, well done!

There probably is something to be said for making an aesthetically pleasing / clever swine solution rather than just blasting through the levels in grumpy engineer mode

Chaos theory, innit?

Ta. Funnily enough, though, if you replace the anti-clockwise wheel on the far right with a clockwise one, the whole timing gets screwed up. I guess it has something to do with the way the frame wobbles slightly. Bloody physics!

Oh my: http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=105150

so happy with this hahahahah

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=111257

improved

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=111275

Frankly brilliant solution to "the tube" (not mine)

Malc

Wow!

This was mine. Pretty boring.
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=101439

Oh, and my "handling" solution:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=98028

I like that, I can't remember how I did that one, but I have a tick next to it, so I must have done it somehow...

Malc

My version of that one was definitely function over form:

http://fantasticcontraption.com/?designId=99434

You get a tick for watching somebody elses solution through.

It counts as a pass if you even load someone else's. Which is a bug I'd say.

I went back to the beginning to test out some odd designs and to see how the game works.

This attempt at a drawbridge and battering ram didn't work quite how I intended it to (well, the drawbridge bit did), but it still got the ball there after a quick boot!



http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=112481

Oooh, hang on. This is a more elegant way to design a drawbridge, and removes the need for a battering ram!

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=112523

I still think this is my most unexpectedly elegant one:

http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=112690

I went back to the first levels to try out some designs. Here's one where I was trying to make a flipper that could flip the block on to the goal. I could never make it powerful enough to get the required distance... so I gave up and put wheels on it, turning it into a Fork Lift truck.



http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=114333

What level's everyone up to?

I just did back and forth, couldn't think of an elegant solution so I made a stupid one:
http://FantasticContraption.com/?designId=114374

That was ace. I liked how everything was neatly disposed of by the time the goal was met.

That looks pretty elegant to me, with the way everything vanishes.

I must say that for days now I have been playing this on and off and I am rubbish.