Crazy Machines

Crazy Machines is a puzzle video game created by German studio FAKT Software. Crazy Machines based many of its ideas on The Incredible Machine series of games.^[2] The player is given a set of mechanical components to construct a Rube Goldberg-style or Heath Robinson-style intricate machine to solve a goal and advance to the next puzzle in the game.

Crazy Machines
Developer(s)	FAKT Software
Publisher(s)	Novitas Publishing DTP Entertainment Pepper Games Viva Media
Platform(s)	Windows, MacOS, Nintendo DS, iOS, Wii
Release	October 2005 Windows/Mac OS X WW: October 2005 WW: December 12, 2008 (Steam, Windows-only)[1] Nintendo DS EU: October 10, 2008 iOS NA: April 9, 2009 Wii EU: August 13, 2010 NA: June 14, 2011
Genre(s)	Puzzle
Mode(s)	Single-player

An iOS version of the game was released in 2009.^[3]

Gameplay

In the game, players build imaginative machines that turn cranks, rotate gears, pull levers, and more to build a unique contraption. The player can solve more than 200 challenging puzzles and experiment with gears, robots, explosives, and more in a virtual lab. The game uses a physics engine to simulate various in-game variables such as air pressure, electricity, gravity, and particle effects.

See also

• Crazy Machines 2
• The Incredible Machine