The Powder Toy Portable 84.0 (physics sandbox game) Released

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Submitted by John T. Haller on November 4, 2012 - 5:49pm

logoThe Powder Toy Portable 84.0 has been released. The Powder Toy is a game of physics and fluid mechanics. You can play with different materials whose properties and influences are simulated. And it has explosives! It's packaged in PortableApps.com Format so it can easily integrate with the PortableApps.com Platform. And it's open source and completely free.

Update automatically or install from the portable app store in the PortableApps.com Platform.

Features

ScreenshotHave you ever wanted to blow something up? Or maybe you always dreamt of operating an atomic power plant? Do you have a will to develop your own CPU? The Powder Toy lets you to do all of these, and even more! The Powder Toy is a free physics sandbox game, which simulates air pressure and velocity, heat, gravity and a countless number of interactions between different substances! The game provides you with various building materials, liquids, gases and electronic components which can be used to construct complex machines, guns, bombs, realistic terrains and almost anything else. You can then mine them and watch cool explosions, add intricate wirings, play with little stickmen or operate your machine. You can browse and play thousands of different saves made by the community or upload your own – we welcome your creations!

Learn more about The Powder Toy...

PortableApps.com Installer / PortableApps.com Format

The Powder Toy Portable is packaged in a PortableApps.com Installer so it will automatically detect an existing PortableApps.com installation when your drive is plugged in. It supports upgrades by installing right over an existing copy, preserving all settings. And it's in PortableApps.com Format, so it automatically works with the PortableApps.com Platform including the Menu and Backup Utility.

Download

The Powder Toy Portable is available for immediate download from the The Powder Toy Portable homepage. Get it today!

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Comments

Hey, that was really fast.:D
I'm shure it was at 83.9 last time I checked (yesterday morning?). Thanks for pushing it out.
btw, is there some kind of subscription for their releases? I did not find any on their site, and I don't have time to check every day. At least they have a builds page for some weeks now...

What's different in this update? Usually when there's an update there is a few short sentences explaining the differences between this version and the last version that it's updating from.

We normally don't include the changelog of the base app on the news pages. I recall an earlier discussion an the same topic but don't know the outcome anymore.
You could simply follow the link Learn more about The Powder Toy... The What's New link on this site is rather prominent.

On the other hand, as the link to their changelog seems to stay the same all the time (at least they have one since some releases), I think it could be included easilly on the news page. But that's up to John.

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I see, there is no hint like "This release updates [...] to the latest release." as in some other update news. I think, this is only included in release pages of older apps like Firefox/Thunderbird etc. Most new ones don't have this.