Physics Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Daily iPad App: Fathead

by Mike Schramm (Jan 9th, 2012)

There's something intriguing about Fathead, but honestly, I don't really know what it is. The game is pretty standard -- similar to other titles like Jelly Car or Epic Truck, the goal is to drive a physics-based vehicle across a 2D world, landing jumps and flips as you can. And Fathead has the ...

Get Where's my Water free from Apple's Facebook page

by Mike Schramm (Nov 30th, 2011)

Apple is apparently giving yet another popular game away using its Facebook page -- this time, it's Disney's Where's my Water up for grabs. To grab your free copy of the great water-guiding physics puzzler, just head over to Apple's App Store Facebook page, become a fan, and you'll get a free ...

Daily iPhone App: Aiko Island

by Mike Schramm (Oct 12th, 2011)

Aiko Island is a physics puzzler with a little different take than usual -- instead of flinging cute little guys around, you're instead working to keep them from falling off of the screen. The idea is that there are little blue creatures and little red creatures, and by deleting some of the red ...

Daily iPhone App: Sprinkle

by Mike Schramm (Sep 26th, 2011)

Sprinkle is a physics-based puzzle game that's centered around water. You control a spigot that's mounted on a crane, and then you blast water to interact with various items in the environment, such as boulders (that actually light on fire, sometimes trouble) and blocks. The overall goal is to ...

Daily iPhone App: A Game With Balls

by Mike Schramm (Aug 12th, 2011)

This game's title isn't just cheeky -- it's pretty literal. A Game With Balls definitely has lots of balls in it -- you play as a sort of cannon that shoots balls, and there are various balls and other shapes slowly floating down the screen towards you. The balls you fire have a little bit of ...

TUAW's Daily iPhone App: Feed Me Oil

by Mike Schramm (Jun 9th, 2011)

I'm going to see what Chillingo has to offer here at E3 later on today, but in the meantime, this recent release on the App Store is gaining some popularity (and has been featured by Apple as iPhone game of the week this week). It's sort of a liquid physics puzzler -- there's oil coming out of ...

TUAW's Daily iOS App: Casey's Contraptions

by Mike Schramm (May 19th, 2011)

I won't mince words here: I've seen and played a lot of iOS games, and when I first saw Casey's Contraptions back at GDC this year (which is out today for the first time on the iPad), I thought it was the most impressive iOS game I'd ever seen. The Incredible Machine is what jumps to mind to ...

TUAW's Daily App: Land-a Panda

by Mike Schramm (Mar 21st, 2011)

Land-a Panda has been tearing up the App Store charts lately, and for good reason. It's a fun mix of platformer and physics puzzler that has you catapulting a panda through a series of levels in order to try and get him to his beloved mate. There's even a little Cut the Rope influence here. ...

TUAW's Daily App: Burn the Rope

by Mike Schramm (Dec 28th, 2010)

This isn't an iOS port of the great Flash game You Have To Burn the Rope, though an upgraded version of that would be nice to have. Instead, this one is a pretty inventive puzzle title by a company called Big Blue Bubble. The idea is that you touch anywhere along a rope to start up a flame, and then ...

TUAW's Daily App: Trucks and Skulls

by Mike Schramm (Dec 7th, 2010)

I'll be honest, at the expense of disagreeing with some of you: I don't really like Angry Birds. Sure, I'll admit it's a quality app, and I obviously can't deny all of those sales. But personally, it's just not my game -- I don't find it nearly as fun as some of the other games on the App Store. ...

More info about the physics of Angry Birds than you need to know

by Steven Sande (Oct 12th, 2010)

If there's anything I love to read, it's analysis of the commonplace items in our lives by physicists, engineers, and mathematicians. That's why I was attracted to a recent Wired Dot Physics post by physicist Rhett Allain in which he did a Tracker video analysis of the most important characters in ...

TUAW's Daily App: Saving Private Sheep

by Mike Schramm (Oct 5th, 2010)

Saving Private Sheep is a fun one, especially if you like Angry Birds (and there are plenty of you out there who do). Saving Private Sheep is another physics-based puzzler. This time, instead of throwing birds at pigs, you have to save sheep from wolves by tapping various wooden objects in a scene ...

Garry's Mod out for Mac

by Mike Schramm (Sep 23rd, 2010)

Valve has released another Steam Play Mac title, and this time it's Garry's Mod, the wild sandbox physics editor that uses assets from Half Life 2 to create whatever you want. The mod is probably most famous for its Rube Goldberg-style creations, but it's also very handy for machinima and other ...

TUAW's Daily App: Rocketeer

by Mike Schramm (Sep 15th, 2010)

Nope, this isn't a movie adaptation (though I'd like to play that game, too). Instead, it's a physics puzzler that has you tossing little rocket-riding guys around planets of various sizes, with gravitational effects to match. The graphics are simple but effective, and the game is surprisingly ...

Zen Bound 2 for iPad out by April 3rd, looks great

by Mike Schramm (Mar 8th, 2010)

We've heard from Secret Exit (creators of Zen Bound) a few times about the new version of their game coming soon, but Touch Arcade has some brand new pics and insight about the game itself. Kotaku also has a few preview pics, and the game looks terrific -- not only is it due out in the App Store ...