Great game; I'll play this for hours. I love Flash-gadgets like these... very funtacular. 92 out of 100.
....................................MANAX

I tried out your machine from the current screenshot and It's like a giant pinball game.

Fun though. -MANAX

You have to make that ball bounce a ridiculously large number of times. I haven't been able to launch the rocket yet.

Here's a link to the machine in the screenshot... Click.

You definitely have to go the pinball sort of route to rack up the high scores. I made some great ones based on the one in the screen shot with different placements of a large number of things but the basic idea was the same.

How'd you make a link to your specific machine? I just made a fantaculus website and I'd like to do the same thing. And I change my rating to 98. -MANAX

Just click the "Send Game to a Friend" button and send it to your own email address. Make sure the box is checked: "Include a Link to your current machine".

Then copy the URL that it sends you, and paste here into the comment. Use anchor tags to make it clickable...

Example:
<a href="your machine URL here">Click</a>

ooooooh. Thanks.

This is so fun.

I made a machine based more on repititon than a pinball game. The rubber ball slowly spends a few minutes going back and forth between a few layers of vertical launchers (thus going up and down constantly, scoring more points with each hit) and back down a maze of slopes a few times before finally fitting through a narrow opening and hitting the button with over 40000 points and fully powering the rocket. If you want to see it, just click here.

Looks like highscores from shared machines all go into highscore table. Or why else would highscore table have exactly same scores all over?

Great fun, I better close my browser now otherwise no work will get done :D

One last little thing though

My Machine

I'm still playing... why? Help me.

Does anyone know how to screenshot in IE, because That's all I can use right now 'cause my E-mail isn't working ever sience.... what a horrid day it was.... But if you can help me out here, I'd really appreciate it. Try to get it within a week though, cause I'm going on a weeks vacation later today. Thanks, -MANAX

hey, long time visitor - first time poster.

this game's great! my best effort so far - 210000, be warned it goes on for 9 minutes

Mine

I got lazy so I made it short,I'll do a longer one later

How come the link dosn't work?

I suck at html

Ro - What you typed was this... <a>Mine</a>

You're missing the href attribute. For a hyperlink to work, anchor tags require an href attribute with a valid URL specified in quotes. Look at my example above.

It's not that terribly difficult, though admittedly a bit cryptic if you're new to that sort of thing.

After sending the machine to your email, open what you receive and look for the link to your machine. Click it. That should take you to a page with your machine, but more importantly the URL will now appear in the address bar of the browser. Copy that completely, and use that for the value of href in your anchor tag.

Does that help?

Here is one for the Advanced level. Much more fun with obstacles to build around. :)

Click

teebor - loved it! Nice job! =)

bushmobile - outstanding! I loved the special launch animation with that score (well over a 100K!).

Kris - not bad!

Thanks! the results seem to vary each time - i've run it three times and each one got about 210k but there's been up to a minute difference in time.

this one's fun, but it's a bit of an attack on the senses!

Hehehe- this is fun. I only wish there were more constructors...

I just got 6.5 million, but with using bugs and not launching the rocket, do you have to be able to launch the rocket (although not necessarily within the 10 minutes) to get on the high score list?

Click

If you do get on the high score list using that machine (if it is possible), put your name down as jayisgames.com or jayisgames please :).

Hi Jay - so glad you like it!

bushmobile: that was awesome! By the way, when I ran it, the rocket launched with only seven seconds to spare.

ahh... normally i never comment; although a huge fan of the site, i'm just too impatient to get really good at games. Here however, there aren't many links yet, unless I have overlooked. So here's my comparitavely low scoring machine! =) http://www.globalspec.com/brainstrainer/homepage.cfm?gameId=2&machineId=4861

When I loaded Bushmobile's first machine it finished with five minutes to spare and teebor's didn't work at all. wierd. I also lost my first machine good enough to launch, but it wasn't much. I'll try to remake it.

heres my it works best with metal but you launch the rocket with every ball

Cool, but...

I really don't like the whole "Try stuff until it works" category. Especially one where you have to sit and watch up to 10 minutes of repetetive nothingness to see if it worked or not.

I mean, at least in games like Hapland or Grow (I know, not neccesarily fair to compare to those) there is some obvious (or not so obvious, but it's still there) logical sequence you can go through to win.

Also if you look at the high-scores, some of the top machines are obviously exploiting bugs. I know the designers didn't intend for that, but, still...

I agree with Andrew; I think the waiting is boring.

Not only that, the physics must behave differently on different computers, because I've loaded a couple of the high score machines and all that happens is: the ball gets stuck bouncing around between a few bumpers and stays there for the duration of the run. So, after ten minutes of tedium, I don't get to see the rocket launch... I had to watch bushmobile's machine above to see that; which oddly resulted in a slightly different score (210160) than the one he quoted !

Shame really, I usually enjoy construction type games.

This one isn't a HUGE scorer but it is fun to watch and shows how the slightest difference in speed or angle can change the way the ball will travel through the same area multiple different times.

Click

That was kinda fun. Check it out.


Click.

how do you make those things that you click on?

Click

First comment,
Jay I would like to say I love this site. I hope that you guys like my little creation.

Here is an elaborate one I made, low points, but launches the ship!

My
machine

I've got a few challenges: (Note, beat=hit the button with the ball for these challenges)

• Beat novice mode with 20 points or fewer.
  
• Beat advanced mode with 40 points or fewer.
  
• Beat expert mode with 60 points or fewer.
  
• Beat novice mode in 1.3 seconds or quicker.
  
• Beat advanced mode in 1.4 seconds or quicker.
  
• Beat expert mode in 1.5 seconds or quicker.
  
• Beat any mode by placing only one part.
  

If anyone does manage fewer points or a quicker time, I'd love to hear it, even if I'm unable to figure out how to achieve it.

Here's a tribute to JayIsGames:

welcome to the machine...

I can't say that it will launch the rocket, because I don't have the patience to sit and watch it for 10 minutes. Enjoy.

Sweeet! A JIG machine! =)

Tiralmo - great idea to extend play on this great little physics toy.

Scott - read my comment above. Click.

I gave up on my old machine and built a new one.
I beat the one part challenge. Yay. But I can't seem to get the low score on any of them.

Click

P.S. Jay, the reason for the trouble with URL's is because your example says "<a href=" You left out the > after a.

If you copy my example above and paste it into the comment form as is, and then replace what's between the double quotes with the entire URL that the game emails to you when you send it to yourself, you should end up with a valid, clickable link.

I just checked and my example is correct.

Here's a quick reference for anyone interested in learning how to make valid HTML links using the anchor tag.

meh...

Low scoring (20) machine for Novice. Same layout gets you the 40 points on Advanced - couldn't figure the Expert one though - kept just missing the button.

Here's my one part machine

i got 74000...

here is a screenshot

I call this: THE INDUSTRIAL AGE

The way it was meant to be played.
Score: 26230 (Fully Launches Loaded Spaceship)
Time Remaining: 7:28.8 (May vary for you)
Pieces: 60

I had some fun building this one with several areas, ends at just under 5:00.

check it out.

Awesome game! Is it a game or more of a toy, though? Semantics aside, I've been playing with it every free minute (or 10) since I saw the post.

Two of my boards:
1) Showing a hole in the physics/collision system with ~9:46 remaining.

2) My pet board. I had a lot of fun making and tweaking this one.

I've also found solutions to parts 1,2, and 7 of Tiralmo's challenge, but they look like GuhBleh and bushmobile's (almost--you can change placement of that first element and it still works).

It's fun seeing what people have come up with, and I hope they expand the parts set so we can see even more variation.

I don't know if anyone else raised this, but it turns out if a small wheel (let's say clockwise) is to the bottom left of a triangle (hypotenuse to bottom right in this case) then the ball (Elastic works best) gets jammed between wheel and triangle (only if coming from left) and pops out later on the right after gaining 1000 points. Interesting.

here are just 2 simple machines... i didn't fashion them too much, they are very simple...
Click 1
Click 2

Im a big fan of the site. first time i have tried to post. here is a fun one i worked on for a little bit. not high scoring but i think its fun. takes almost 5 minutes.click here

try to improve this

in my version i get about 20.000 but i think its a good beginning to crack the 100.000 wall,

plz try arround and let me know :D

xun- Your link does not link to your machine. Look above at jay's example. Remember to put quotation marks around the url, which, I believe, is what you forgot to do.

O.k. Last one, my best one - Great game. Too bad it doesn't award points for creativity. Best way to play is on novice with a Steel ball, just for playing around with the possibilities.

ENJOY!ENJOY!

lets try this again.
Click here
or try this one
Click here

A tribute to that which brings us together. :)

Click

i call it, the meat grinder! score of 51,645

Here is what two minutes of me being creative can do. I know, not at all complex, and unluckily, it hits the button only one and a half minutes in. Still enough for the special launch though.

The Field

In response to bushmobile in a presvious post -
Low-scoring Expert board

I realise its still a bit high at 90 points but /shrugs

First time poster btw, I love the site, very addicted to the games you post here. Keep up the good work Jay :)

I'm almost positive there's only the one solution for only 60 points on expert, and since no one else has found it I'll give a hint for it: The ball goes over the center octagon.

Tiralmo: that's what I thought, but the best I could do doesn't quite make it :(

I've completed tasks 1,2,3, and 7. The ball DOES go over the middle. Here's another hint: Use the wall.

I did it. expert 60

nice one,

i think you could easyli improve my worxs, jsut modifie it...

its about 20k @ easy now, but im sure it could do much more :-D

greetz

Hi All -- this is JR over at JRVisuals... our company developed the Flash portion of this game / toy. Its been great reading all of your posts... the comments, the praises, and the constructive criticizm.

We especially love the Challenges that were posted and would love to hear more. We would also love to hear about any ideas for Parts Expansions as this is a possibility. Thanks.

One feature that was removed, and may help out,

Here is my machine.

I absolutely love your site, best game site on the web, no other has favorites, classics, and a randomized bar showing 12 different games. Plus,you hand pick the best games, while others take whatever any one gives them. So I made you this, a JayIsGames customized contraption that racks up just under 27000 points (just enough to get the special ending).-A dedicated fan, Josh

Cheers, Josh! That's pretty awesome! =D

Omigosh thanx Jay for that I'm totally buying a t-shirt on your birthday!It came up so fast plus you said it was awesome!Yay!

I now have the top scoring advanced machine,just under 50000 points!! Here it is...

Time for the one piece hard mode puzzle....

machine 1

machine 2

machine 3

machine 4

here's mine: http://www.globalspec.com/brainstrainer/homepage.cfm?gameId=2&machineId=6089 NOTE: IT DOESN'T LAUNCH but it gets points :-)

http://www.globalspec.com/brainstrainer/homepage.cfm?gameId=2&machineId=7000 is another one- a HUGE glitch is in there!

I tried the machine in the screenshot with the metal ball.I left it going 4 ages but the noise was driving me cra-z

i have a challenge. can you get between 10000 and 11000 using exactly 22 pieces?

this game rocks!!! man i love it, i wish there were more games like it!

http://www.globalspec.com/brainstrainer/homepage.cfm?gameId=2&machineId=4791 link to my machine