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Last time I wrote about Crayon Physics. This time I found in the irrlicht blog another interesting Software which plays with physics and let you draw and move objects.

Phun was created as a master of science thesis and is indented to explore and play with physical objects. On the webpage of phun by Emil Ernerfeldt you can find more detailed information, screenshots, video and downloads for for windows and linux systems. Mac version is coming soon.

You can do more than draw only simple objects and let them fall or rotate on a fix point. There are more complex objects like chains and rotating wheels. With a bit patient and time you can build even virtual machines

A very promising game with a interesting idea. Draw objects which become physical objects and fall, roll, slide, tumble downwards and try to move the little red ball to the jumping yellow start. Thats all!

The Deluxe Version is still work in progress but Crayon Phsics is already playable and you can download release version 1 from Kloonigames. On the website of the Crayon Physics Deluxe you can see a video of many nice features not included in the done-in-under-a-week game version of crayon.

There you can also register a e-mail address to get informed when the game is done. Even if the author claims the downloadable version more a prototype as a demo version it already teases for more…

After a long time I managed to bring my blog back online. All started with upgrading the server to a newer version of operating system and tools. Everything run smooth and the tools from the provider of my virtual host did a good job. Uppss, except a little detail. The /dev/urandom was missing

That little problem was the reason for long downtime of my server. I only could watch error messages on the web interface that a device is missing. After writing a mail to the support (which is not working over weekend) the solution reached me after the weekend. Yesterday I installed all my applications and today I can write again.

And as every time you work with computer : You better have a backup! Of everything you don’t want to loose.