Four people, one tower, and gravity
Notes from building Who Moved That?! — mostly about blocks that did not stay where anyone put them.
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improvement
The tower now falls over somewhere
A stone floor and a white hall fifteen metres tall, and blocks now bounce off the walls.
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note
We set friction to zero and the tower simply left
With nothing holding the blocks against each other the tower melts from the bottom in about a second.
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feature
You can finally pull one block out
Taking a block from the middle of the tower used to bring half the tower with it. Now it slides.
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improvement
The starting tower is no longer perfect
Every block sits two millimetres off its slot, because hand stacked towers are not straight.
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note
How a physics game finds out what it feels like
A panel of thirty eight sliders, and every one of them tells you what it does to the game rather than to the code.
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feature
Your tower now stands on a plinth, like art
The tower starts on a glowing red plinth with five centimetres of ledge on every side.
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feature
Throwing yourself at the problem
A dive sends you forward and down at 6.5 m/s, and the landing leaves you staggering in front of witnesses.
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feature
Nothing places itself any more
Hold the button to hold the block, let go to drop it. The game has stopped tidying up after you.
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feature
Three fingers, and one nose fewer
Your hands have a palm, two fingers and a thumb, and the fist closes before your arm has finished lifting.
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feature
Your own eyes are the default now
You start inside your character's head. Third person is one key away, for admiring the damage.
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feature
Left hand, right hand, one very nervous plank
Grab with either mouse button, and the block is held wherever you were looking when you clicked.
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note
No two planks are the same plank
The plank mode deals warped boards from a pile now, and you learn which one you got while carrying it.
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note
Blocks land where you hold them
The grid is gone and the placement help is off in every mode. Where you let go is where it lies, crooked and all.
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note
There is a chair now, and you can stand on it
The first object that is not a building block. Carry it, put it down, climb on it, reach one row higher.
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note
Pick how you move, then change your mind
Walk, strafe or fly. Everyone at the tower can move by different rules, and switching mid carry is allowed.
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note
The blocks got enormous and you did not
A build mode where every block is a hollow slab the size of a car, and you are still 1.60 m of optimism.