http://onemorelevel.com/game/magic_pen

Enjoy.

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Nooooooooooooo!!!! Flashiething doesn't work on the iPod touch....

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Spoiler section: It's a flash drawing-physics game. If you draw a square, it falls and hits the ground. Circles roll away, ect. Collision detection. Object is to get the red circle or square to the flag.

HINT1: There are pivots and there are pins. Two shapes with the pin (X) will connect them so they act as one mass, for the most part. Pivots (o) will do the same, except they may freely rotate about the center of the pivot.

HINT2: You may attach pins and pivots to the red ball/square. (I've already turned the red circle into the front tire of a little car, then rolled the car down a hill to the flag. Completely unnecessary, but fun.

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I couldn't get the flash app to work. It loaded, went to the screen that tells you what the objective is (and has the <- and -> buttons under the picture) but the buttons didn't do anything when I clicked them. Might be because I had embeded flash media player playing a ballgame open in another window, and the sound was conflicting (it was making the game's music choppy).

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"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

That's probably it, Fazor. Give it another crack when the ballgame is done
Also, what browser?

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Gaaaaah!

You are evil.

Productivity...


...decreasing.

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Jump in with both feet!
- Me, indulging my inner eight-year-old

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"Are you a mad-hatter that just types what he wishes, or have you actually any physics training?"
Occam's Ghost to Grant Hutchison.

IE. As much as I distrust it (but am forced by tech-devils to use it at work), it's the one that I know flash stuff should work on.

I'm just going to assume it's the ballgame...which is still dragging on.

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"A long time ago, yet somehow in the future"

The game is largely a ripoff off of "Crayon Physics Deluxe" which is still being developed. The designers of this game largely preempted him by doing it in flash, whereas CPD is stand-alone. I bet he's miffed, though. It's a direct ripoff. But still fun to play

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And works well in FireFox

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Can't beat level 10. Anyone got a hint for me?

- J

Lucky you. I know how to beat level 8, but I can't make it work.

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Oh dear...level 24. But over two days....

It only has 25. 4.5 hours start to finish. But I think it was trying to teach me stuff.

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She might. You never know.

It took me maybe forty minutes to beat the whole thing! O_o

What level are you guys stuck on? I'll tell yas how I did it.

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Am I the only one who found this game totally boring?

No chance it will have any effect on MY productivity. (And given all other distractions, that's a good thing!)

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For those having trouble above:

Level 8: I used a long, big box to connect the two flags, with triangles at each end so the ball couldn't roll off. Another long box above the final flag, with two smaller boxes bolted on to hug the square the flag is on, so the whole assembly doesn't move. After you get the top two flags, delete the box above with A to have it drop towards the flab below.

Level 10: Big pain hehe. What I eventually did was hook together 4 boxes on the square at the top left, so I had attachable surfaces all the way around it. I hooked on a big ol' box extending far out to the right of it to act as a counterweight. Then I made an arm going up and to the left of that area, then made a chain of hinged rectangles connecting to the ball, then extended that chain far to the right. Then I added tons of large ones, with the edges just offscreen to the right. Then I deleted my crane, and let the weight of the chain pull the ball up and over the top left square, and towards the flags to the right. Then I cut the chain, cleaned everything up, and had the top flag already. Easy from there.

Level 24: Chain-and-counterweight works nicely here, too.

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You solution to 10 was a lot different than mine. different enough that I have to ask: You know that red box can be pulled off of the grid right?

I put a ramp on the upper flag area aimed as the blue barrier, then dropped a ball. The ball hits the blue thing, which pivots around a just off center axis. This tips the red box off of the screen.

Next I placed a block under the blur arm that held the left side a bit lower than the right, and made a bridge from the ball to the blue arm. This bridge MUST be tapered on the end near the ball. erase the big ramp.

Next I dropped a big circle to just graze the ball. If you look as the crayon, there is a yellow bit and a red bit at the end. Place the red bit at the top of the tree, so it just matched up with the small green thing on the tree. Make the ball until it's almost to the red part.


I can't remember how I did 13. The one that's all inside the tunnel. I Know I made a lever then hit it with something but I can't seem to repeat it.

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She might. You never know.

13 was a fun one. With the static box they give you, I put a pivot in the very upper left hand corner, then made a long, skinny rectangle that connected to it. Kind of like a flipper in pinball machine. It extended above the pivot for maybe three quarters of an inch. Then I took the shelved area to teh right, and added triangles to make it one giant ramp. Then I rolled a large ball down it, hits the flipper, and the scoring ball moves to the flag at high speed. Five shapes used.

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Screenshot of my solution for level 13 for your perusal:
http://i301.photobucket.com/albums/n.../lvl13easy.jpg

#EDIT: yeah, I know about the pivot and block for ten, Tog hehe. The chain nicely circumvents the whole thing, though.

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A box could be supported on the middle block and go from left to right on a nice, flat plane. Here I was making ramps. I did figure out the bolted ramp down to the last flag, though.

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