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Contraption Maker Co-Op Review

John Bardinelli

It's been a long time since the days of Sierra On-Line and the release of The Incredible Machine. The first game hit in 1993 and has since branched off into a few proper sequels, puzzle pack expansions, mobile releases, and countless numbers of unofficial offshoots and imitators. The release of Contraption Maker marks a return of the real deal,...

Contraption Maker Builds Itself into Beta

John Bardinelli

Just like its classic predecessor, Contraption Maker is a free-form building game that gives you an inventory full of seemingly random items and challenges you to solve a puzzle with them. You inevitably end up building something straight out of Wallace and Gromit, what with the toast flying everywhere and the tubes carrying various cheeses to hot air balloons. We wrote a preview for Contraption Maker's early access release, so give it a read for more info. Co-op is still a touch bare at the moment, but at least you can hop online and collaborate using the new server browser interface.

Contraption Maker Update Adds Co-Op

John Bardinelli

Contraption Maker was released as an early access game in September 2013 with a handful of basic toys to play around with and some official levels to puzzle over. Community-created stages quickly filled in the gameplay gaps, but the feature we really wanted to get our hands on was the promised multiplayer support. This update adds a very basic form of co-op. Players can hop on servers and build contraptions together very much like the single player "make" mode. Only, you know, with other people.

Contraption Maker Preview

John Bardinelli

Contraption Maker is a creative sandbox / puzzle game currently in development by the makers of The Incredible Machine. It hit Steam's Early Access program a few days ago, giving us the chance to sit down and tool around with the bits and bobs that make up the untamed world of digital Rube Goldberg machines....

Contraption Maker Announced by Incredible Machine Devs

John Bardinelli

Everybody remember The Incredible Machine series? Way back in the early to mid 90s, a series of puzzle games was released that essentially let you build your own Rube Goldberg devices. You know, the ones that involve mallets hitting marbles that roll down ramps to wake up a chicken whose flapping wings hit a lever that drops a bag of flour on top of a scale that tips and turns the light switch off. That sort of thing. The team behind those classic games is working on Contraption Maker, a spiritual sequel to The Incredible Machine that promises to bring back the same free-form puzzle solving we fell for back in the good old days.