Crazy Machines 1.5 - Inventors Training Camp
A physics puzzler that hands you gears, belts and lasers and expects you to think like an engineer, not a gamer. Fiddly, dated, quietly addictive.
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Worth it for Incredible Machine fans who enjoy fiddly physics tinkering and can forgive dated 2008 presentation.
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About Crazy Machines 1.5 - Inventors Training Camp
Before this one gives you anything, it wants patience and a tolerance for trial and error. You get a board, a goal (roll the ball into the basket, light the bulb, pop the balloon), and a tray of parts: gears, conveyor belts, ropes, magnets, springs, lasers. Then you tinker. Placement is measured in pixels, and a contraption that fails by a hair looks identical to one that works until you hit play. Over 200 levels ship here, and the Inventor's Training Camp up front actually teaches the physics rules rather than dumping you straight into the hard stuff, which is more than most puzzle games of its era bothered with. What works is the moment your Rube Goldberg chain finally clicks and eight parts fire in sequence. What doesn't is everything around it: mouse handling is imprecise, the presentation is dated even for a 2008 release, and later puzzles occasionally lean on guesswork over deduction. It's single-player only, no sandbox community to keep it alive. If you like The Incredible Machine and want a few evenings of quiet, methodical fiddling, this delivers exactly that and nothing more.
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Minimum
- Processor
- 800 MHz CPU
- Memory
- 128 MB RAM
- Graphics
- DirectX 9 compatible graphic card with 32MB RAM DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c Hard Drive: 100 MB fixed-disk-storage
- Sound Card
- Direc…
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- Developer
- Viva Media
- Publisher
- Viva Media
- Release Date
- Dec 12, 2008