A tale of a bridge...

Yup. Still alive. Still bored. Courtney -- still studying. I recently have become fascinated with physics games (I even made a couple once.. balls bouncing off curved surfaces and the like, it was to become a minigolf game but only ever saw the alpha stages... also one simulating gravity and wind resistance ect...) so I've discovered this wonderful little game called bridge builder. You make bridges and watch your beautiful creations collapse in real time as you run a train across them!! Succeed and you move to the next level. Let me show you the sad story of one of my yet unfinished creations...

Here we see "edit mode" where I'm working on a crazy complicated double arch bridge to span a massive gap. I've learned there are three types of bridges : Truss bridges (which span small distances), arch bridges (bigger distances) and suspension bridges (very big distances)




So for the sake of this example I'm going to scrap my amazing bridge and watch it burn. I press test and immediately I'm made aware that my bridge is under immense stress! (Being unfinished) It might snap!





Oh my! A few critical beams have snapped!!








The bridge begins plummeting into the channel below, all in real time!








More plummeting...








ARG!! Snappy snap crap.. Pop... It plunges into the murky depths!








Floats for a few seconds...








Before coming to rest on the (ocean?) floor. It will sleep with the fishies!!








But wait!!! You can build your own disaster! You can even launch trains into the murky depths!! This is hours of wasted time waiting to happen!! Go-go gadget download!!!

And hey when you get bored of that.. Check out the tower of goo!!! For another few minutes of good clean gooey fun!!