Unfortunately I have not had nearly as much time to hack 4K games as last year. The fact that I have become father of triplets since last compo and that olympics is clashing with end of competition is really not helping  I had planned to do some more with this game, but don't think it will happen, so here it is...

The goal is to build as tall buildings as possile using springs... Not so good idea in real life, but quite fun as a game I think. It appeals to your creative and constructive side as well as your destructive side 

Keys:
  In menu:

• up/down to select level
• enter to start level
• esc to quit

  In game

• arrowkeys to pan
• a/z to zoom
• q/w to turn on/off movement indicator
• r to release all fixed joints (really only for fun)
• esc to exit game
• enter to restart

Move mouse over existing joint to select start for new spring
Move mouse to select existing joint for end of new spring or
select place for new joint as endpoint for spring

The starting joint must be connected by at least two springs or be one of the predefined joints.

You have 5 min to build as high as possible, and height is only registerd when building isn't moving, so it can be clever to sometimes stop and let the building settle to register it if it is close to collapse.

Don't have time to explain it better, hopefully you'll see what I mean when you try it. If not, just ask here and I'll improve explanation a bit.

The bridge level should really be on time rather than scored by hight. I might change that later.

This is my 10th 4k game, and pssibly the one that I have spent least time on creating, but for sure the one I like most to play. Hope you'll enjoy it.

Let me know what you think.

Oh and by the way, what do I win for entering the 50th game for this year

Webstart here!

lol I see what u mean, my tower exploded :S

Very interesting idea, not too dissimilar to Chronoc Logic's Bridge Construction Set - was that the inspiration?

Played for 5 minutes and couldn't figure out how to make a single spring.  Might be fun, but currently is unplayable with the given instructions lacking the magic key that actually does something.

I have similar problems. Events don't seem to get processed in time. It took ages, when I pressed the arrow keys, to get it move around and when it did, it didn't want to stop

Arne

It seemed unintuitive to me at first too.  Once I figured out how to place the springs outside of the fixed anchor points, I have no problem.  Highest score so far is 824.

Yes, managed to get it working..   at first I started from the anchor points in the air.   It's  neat, though I find the "force vectors" or whatever they are distracting during construction.  I would make them a more subdued color or something.

Great you got it to work. About force vectors, you are right, not so good colors, just as the rest of all the colors...I should change it all. Instructions at top states: "q/w to turn on/off movement indicator", so you should be able to get rid of it. I already changed it to be off from the beginning, so you should make sure you have the latest version as well.

Dang, that beats my record for that level...Quite good looking building as well    Interesting to see that there are almost no rectangles with crossbars (actually one) and that It is quite symmetrical, but not completely. It looks almost too good. The idea with joints was that one should be forced to make some compromises and use creative solutions. I might have to create some more asymmetrical levels.
Good work!

Well, I had to make quite a few attempts, but finally got a high score  for the tower level. I use triangles "on edge" hoping that they will carry weight vertically better. But as you can see, they aren't as stable horizontally  The columns were vertical to begin with. The tower was 997 tall after last spring was placed. I was just about to place another triangle on top to get 4-digit height when I noticed that it was again starting to move sideways, and I was about to place a triangle on the left side to counter it (as you can see by the green line) but fortunately time ran out exactly then. I think that it would have collapsed if I would have had the time. It took about half a minute for the building to stabilize so that the height was registered.

Height 2586, score 2765 with "Stairway"... This one is a lot easier than the other ones, isn't it?