<div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Moreover, after I've seen beautiful Crazy Machines (which is kind of a clone<br>of TIM) and after I noticed that it uses OpenDynamics engine that is open
<br>sourced.....</blockquote><div><br>If the physics enginecan be stolen, the effort would be reduced by a _lot_.<br><br></div><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
But I thought that it would be difficult to write levels for it. They need to<br>scale from easy to complex, and that's not an easy task to cope with.<br>Are you saying that there's some common level format for Incredible Machine
<br>and that some levels maybe taken from it (after permission of persons in<br>charge of course)?<br></blockquote><div><br>I don't know about level formats, but if one gets permission, reconstructing the<br>level from a screenshot should be easy. The main issue would probably be the
<br>creation of medium to hard levels. The first three 'pop a balloon, optionally<br>employing a fan' levels should be designed easy enough. If extragear and <br>HotNewStuff are used correctly, the good designs should filter themselves out
<br>rather fast, anyway..<br> </div><br>Richard<br></div><br>