I Lost My Resolve...
...or maybe this site is expanding? I don't know. But check this out: my first post about a game!
The other day, I saw a post on Boing Boing again. This time the post was about a cool physics simulation "game" called Phun. Unfortunately for me and my MacBook, Phun is only available for Windows and Linux now (get it and tell me how it is, if you've got the right OS, please). Fortunately for me, though, the comments of the post provided me with plenty of diversion. Someone mentioned a game called Powder Game (Warning: it's a java game, so if your browser takes a massive slowdown with java, consider yourself warned. It works great for me). Whoah. Less of a physics sim, more of a fluid dynamics sim, and it has explosions! Yes! I immediately lost 3 hrs of time with this game yesterday.
So, in case you only read the last sentence: Go play Powder Game now, if you like blowing things up.
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October 16, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Your contrast between Phun’s operating-system requirements and a browser diversion is a useful reminder to explain what a visitor needs before they try a tool. I would keep the 2008 date attached to those platform notes. That clarity matters for a service to remove backgrounds from video in a browser too: uploading a clip and downloading a transparent result are separate steps that should be easy to understand.
October 29, 2026 at 7:19 AM
The contrast between Phun’s Windows/Linux availability and the browser-based Powder Game is a useful snapshot of how platform compatibility shaped which experiments people could try in 2008. The particle simulation angle sounds like an interesting complement to the rigid-body physics you described.