The Blob Toy

https://oimo.io/works/blob/

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atan2• 3 years ago

Very cool.

Daub• 3 years ago

A Very intuitive GUI. Was able to get up and running within seconds.

bze12• 3 years ago

This reminds me of jellycar. the creator made some great YouTube videos recently about the physics of it. https://youtu.be/3OmkehAJoyo

icameron• 3 years ago

Thank you for sharing. This is the most fun I've had on a webpage in a while!

adonovan• 3 years ago

Same! It’s amazing how many physical phenomena it accurately models: convection, boiling, pressure, temperature, capacitance, turbulence, tension, elasticity, gravity, and so on.

Our phones really are supercomputers.

user68858788• 3 years ago

Love it.

AceJohnny2• 3 years ago

oimo.io has a lot of really cool, often interactive, often 3D tech demos. Their recursive Conway's Game of Life was featured on HN before: https://oimo.io/works/life/

Hell, even their front-page looks amazing : https://oimo.io

tbm57• 3 years ago

Is blob toy Turing complete?

skhm• 3 years ago

give it an unlimited canvas, and tap a lot to simulate a constant flow, and you can chain gates per https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluidics

hyperific• 3 years ago

You can make the balloons bigger by long pressing

donaldbough• 3 years ago

So fun!

Bondi_Blue• 3 years ago

Reminds me a bit of an early iOS game, a tiny sandbox, called Aquaforest.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Vewtcd7nBLk&pp=ygUOYXF1YWZvcmV...

Unai2• 3 years ago

Reminds me of that sand game, I don't remember the name, maybe just "Sand" or "Falling sand" or similar? I know there were a bunch of different versions of it, with a lot of different materials you could draw on the screen, and they interacted with each other in very interesting ways; not just gravity, but there was also a "plant" material that would grow when in touch with water, fire would burn it, gas would explote, etc.

Anyone knows what I'm talking about?

This was many many years ago, but I would love to try it again, although I don't see myself spending the amount of time I did back in the day creating complex mechanisms.

LoganDark• 3 years ago

The Powder Toy?

The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! The game provides you with various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components which can be used to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains and almost anything else. You can then mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen or operate your machine. You can browse and play thousands of different saves made by the community or upload your own – we welcome your creations!

mafuku• 3 years ago

The one I knew was called Powder Game[1]. I used to play it a lot in the elementary school computer room.

[1] https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/

Unai2• 3 years ago

Can't edit on the app I'm using, but I found this implementation of the game I was talking about: https://www.silvergames.com/en/falling-sand. Not the original, but it has all the elements I remember, plus some interesting things like wind. And works decently on my phone.

starshadowx22• 3 years ago

I think you mean Burning Sand which is also the first thing I thought of when opening this.

https://siebn.de/games/bs

starshadowx22• 3 years ago

I still have a copy from 2006 saved on my computer of this and I'm pretty sure I originally got it from some sort of demo disk or something like that, maybe PC Gamer or Maximum PC - can't remember.

I was trying to look into it more and found this blog post from 2006 saying Burning Sand was a version of World of Sand and links to a Japanese site - https://www.kreativrauschen.com/blog/2006/03/29/burning-sand...

That site talks about Hell of Sand being another new version. That lead me to find this site that still hosts old .jar files of different versions of the game under the Falling Sand title - https://androdome.com/Sand/

This site I found on Reddit titled as "a modern version of the classic Hell of Sand" - https://www.projectsand.io/

There was also this game I remember playing back in school that is a lot alike - https://dan-ball.jp/en/javagame/dust/

voidfunc• 3 years ago

I think it's fascinating that game sticks in people's mind so much, there wasn't much to it from what I recall.

lakdowjd• 3 years ago

Sandspiel.

https://sandspiel.club/

chime• 3 years ago

Are you thinking of https://chir.ag/stuff/sand/ ? It was a Java applet I came across long ago via Fark from a Japanese forum. I really liked the concept but it was in a tiny 300x400 view. So I decompiled, resized it to be larger, recompiled, and have been hosting it at above URL since forever.

I tried to find the original dev but still haven’t found them. Of course with Java applets not working anymore, it’s just a relic of bygone times.

tdeck• 3 years ago

There were a bunch of them. The one I remember was called "hell of sand falling game"

gooob• 3 years ago

dust?

nickgros• 3 years ago

Other commenters have pointed out the original, but I just wanted to suggest checking out the game Noita, which is an exploration/roguelike set in a world that mechanically operates like the falling sand game.

ta9883• 3 years ago

They have one on the author website: https://oimo.io/works

paraknight• 3 years ago

I think the original was Falling Sand Game, then I remember a lot of very interesting clones. https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Falling-sand_game

imiric• 3 years ago

It also reminds me of Gish, which used blob mechanics for the main character. Great game.

emmelaich• 3 years ago

Author has some nice examples on Twitter, e.g. https://twitter.com/shr_id/status/1679502736222740480

tombert• 3 years ago

This kind of reminds me of an art thing from ~18 years ago called “ball droppings”. It was fun, I should dig that up.

https://web.archive.org/web/20060110050806/http://www.balldr...

ta9883• 3 years ago

All the projects of this person are amazing have a look at their website clicking on the top right of the page.

ta9883• 3 years ago

https://oimo.io/works

Toutouxc• 3 years ago

There was an amazing physics sandbox game called Algodoo (formerly Phun), it’s been abandoned I think, but the last version is still playable and even available on iPad.

krylon• 3 years ago

This is so much fun. One of the things both kids and adults find enjoyable. :)

parasti• 3 years ago

By far the most impressive thing here, to me, is the fact that my phone does not heat up at all. Literally every other web based game or toy causes it to heat up. How is this possible?

DrIronstein• 3 years ago

I like this. No goal, no score, no timer. You can just play around and see stuff happen. Reminds me a bit of the game "Liquid War" where you try to surround your opponent by circling in his tiny blobs and convert them to your color. Wonderful game.

xyproto• 3 years ago

How come the performance is so smooth?

willio58• 3 years ago

Works surprisingly well on mobile!

malephex• 3 years ago

Dope.

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