The Phun Invasion

This weekend my home was taken over by a free PC game that I found called PHun. It is a 2D physics simulator that animates and applies physics to anything you create. For instance, you can use the brush to draw any closed shape, and then it will fill-in and fall with gravity, be affected by wind, air friction and even bounce. You can liquify anything and make complex objects. You can pin objects in space, add motors, and the results are fantastic. My passion is for making infinite ball machines (like an obstacle course for ping-pong balls that never stops.) But mostly we built walls of blocks and made up ways to knock them down.

http://www.phun.at/

It can be taxing on your CPU, especially if you use water. My kids are 7 and 4 and both could use the program, but making advanced shapes and engines requires dad. I was literally running back and forth between two computers where they were each working on their Phun projects.

Here is a video of a typical type of thing we did this weekend (video is not mine.)