Mediocre Games developer, Dennis Gustafsson did an interview with the NVIDIA Tegra Zone where he talks about how using the dual core Tegra 2 mobile chip from NVIDIA enabled them to use such advanced fluid physics. With Sprinkle one of the cores on the Tegra chip is dedicated to the physics fluid simulation while the other core is used for the rest of the game. Check out the interview below.
The game is available for the following devices:
iPhone 3GS / 4
iPad 1 / 2
iPod Touch 3rd gen / 4th gen
Android phones powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2
Android tablets powered by NVIDIA Tegra 2
Using a water cannon mounted on a crane, players must adjust the height and angle of the cannon to fight fires, move obstacles, spin wheels and activate traps in this challenging water-physics based puzzler! But squirt carefully as you will run out of water and the less water you use, the more drops you earn!
Using some of the most realistic water physics seen on a touch device yet, Sprinkle is a brain-teasing game that will have players straining to figure out each puzzle and obstacle.
Sprinkle features
Amazing water physics – Some of the most realistic water physics ever seen on a touch device make Sprinkle an exciting and addictive puzzler.
If you were a fan of Blast Corps back in the good old days of the Nintendo 64, you may want to check out Demolition Inc. a new game from Zeroscale games. In Demolition Inc. you take on the role of demolition worker Mike and start a devastating chain reaction on earth where you have to go city to city destroying buildings that are fully simulated with physics which uses the PhysX SDK. Check out the physics packed trailer below and the official website here. The game is available for only $8.99 on Steam.
DEMOLITION, INC. is a new action strategy game: Assume the role of the daring demolition worker Mike and start a devastating chain reaction on earth, use cool tools and weapons and expand your destructive powers!
You navigate Mike’s UFO over cities of earth and unfold complete chaos with your tools and weapons: Cars which drive into tower blocks and let them collapse, tower blocks which falls onto other tower blocks, exploding cows which let whole streets of houses come tumbling down!
Demolition Inc. is 100% physics technology: nothing is predetermined, and nothing is pre-animated. Only you make a determination what you do and what you see! Because of this, every time you play will be a unique experience and you won’t get enough from those explosive chain reactions you make by yourself.
Key features
Ground-breaking technology
Car and building physics are fully simulated. Everything is destructible and nothing is pre-animated. No game round is like the other.
Matt de Villiers, lead programmer on Stronghold 3, introduces Stronghold 3′s new physics engine (Havok) and its capabilities in Stronghold 3 Dev Diary #2. Unlike previous Stronghold games, Stronghold 3 uses a physics engine middle-ware for the destruction of the castle walls and every building in the game. The engine being used is Havok because according to Matt is is “the most robust”. Matt de Villiers then goes into detail about why they decided to do this and shows off using the wireframe view of the game how every building in the game is an individual physics object that can be completely destroyed. Check it out below and check out the official Stronghold 3 website for more information on the game. Stronghold 3 is coming to the PC on Oct 18, 2011. You can pre-purchase it on Steam.
The developers posted an interesting album on the official Stronghold 3 Facebook page called Physics fun with Trebs that shows some crazy physics. Check them out below-
BurSchnart has made a really cool video showing off the physics in CryEngine 3. The video uses “thousands of objects being hit or thrown away with Gravity Volumes” Check it out below and check his YouTube page for more cool videos.
I am pleased to announce that GamePhys will soon have a dedicated test and benchmarking system for the site. This was a project I have been meaning to do since I started the site back in 2009 but never got around to it. The first phase of this project really got started this past BlackRead More
On Friday at GDC 2012, Aron Zoellner and Kevin Newkirk of NVIDIA presented a really nice hour long session titled Enhancing Games with APEX PhysX (Clothing, Destruction, Turbulence). In this presentation they went over the features of APEX PhysX Cloth, Destruction, and Turbulence which we have seen implemented in recent games like Mafia II andRead More
We have been hearing rumors for the past year now that AMD GPU’s will be used in the next generation consoles however, aside from reports that the Xbox would use a Fusion variant of Bulldozer, we have not been hearing to much about the actual CPU that may be used. Now SemiAccurate claims that theRead More
Zombiethatatehimself creator of the Awesome Apex PhysX Impact Damage Demonstration and Apex PhysX Impact Damage Demonstration With Stucco/plaster, and the Apex PhysX Voronoi Fracture and Destruction Demonstration has made another cool Apex PhysX demonstration with the Unreal Development Kit. This time a similar to the Voronoi Fracture and destruction demonstration but with some cool plasterRead More
Some nice news from Havok as they have announced that they have entered into a “worldwide license agreement with Nintendo Co., Ltd., to make Havok Physics and Havok Animation available to studios around the world developing on Nintendo’s Wii U™ platform” Hopefully we will see some cool games implement Havok Physics and destruction. The WiiRead More
F1nalspace has made a pretty cool PhysX SPH fluids sandbox you can download and play with showing off some awesome PhysX based SPH(smoothed particle hydrodynamics). Check it out below. I made a fluid simulation in C++ with several customizable scenarios using PhysX SDK 3.0.2 rendered with OpenGL. Fluid rendering is done using a technique calledRead More
I just wanted to post these cool UDK PhysX videos I came across on YouTube. UDK wood fracture from 19minimin91 UDK/Apex Destructible Level Test from lankeytom UDK Physics Fun by GrinchPa
Now this is exciting news, Epic Games has announced in their GDC 2012 press release that they will be showcasing Unreal Engine 4 behind closed doors at GDC 2012. Last year at GDC 2011 we saw the Samaritan demo which was jaw dropping graphics wise but did not showcase much physics, at least destruction wise.Read More
NVIDIA has released new GeForce 295.73 WHQL Drivers which include PhysX 9.12.0209 System Software for improved compatibility and performance in Alice: Madness Returns and Batman: Arkham City. NVIDIA has posted an in-depth article about the improvements you can see in various games on the official Geforce website. There was also a PhysX System Software 9.12.0213Read More
This is old now but I never got around to posting about it back during CES 2012. During the CES 2012 Intel press conference, they showed a lot of information about the upcoming Ivy Bridge Ultrabook processor including a DX11 graphics demo showing off different games that the DX11 capable Ivy Bridge processor will beRead More
The NvidiaApexDeveloper YouTube page has uploaded a new video from the Art Gallery demo showing off some awesome Apex physics and destruction. Check it out below. For more footage of this demo in action check out the original Art Gallery Destruction Demo in UE3 using APEX Destruction with GRB’s video. Hopefully this demo becomes availableRead More
Charlie over at SemiAccurate has posted an interesting rumor that the upcoming NVIDIA Kepler, GK104 GPU will have optimizations for physics calculations in the form of dedicated PhysX hardware described as a “PhysX block.” It is unclear whether these optimizations will be actual dedicated PhysX hardware or just more shaders and other PhysX optimizations butRead More
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