Site Of The Week Hosted on ZooomrThis week’s winner of the site of the week contest was the Falling Sand website. I first came across the site about a year ago when someone submitted it to Digg and it immedietely raced to the front page. At the time, the traffic to the site was so heavy that I couldn’t even access it for a couple of days. By the time I was able to play around with the game, I was instantly hooked.
I’m not sure why I found the Falling Sands game so appealing, but there is something about watching little grains of water, plants, salt and oil fall and mix (sometimes with explosive consequences 8)), that is absolutely mesmerizing. It’s almost Zen like to see the various elements slowly build up and evolve. On one level the game is very simple and has limited rules and functionality, but on another level, it also allows users to create some pretty complex designs.
The game was originally developed, by a Japanese blogger and while I don’t understand Japanese, I’m still thankful that he took the time to build such a cool program. While searching on the web, I found a number of people who have created some really impressive structures; Wohba.com took advantage of one of the many mods for the game and planted seeds to create a virtual plant, a reader from Gamerswithjobs took the time to recreate Edward Munch’s masterpiece the Scream and it turned out very nicely, I’m not exactly sure how to describe the ecosystem that So Many Schemes developed, but I still found it’s use of blues and sharp angles very appealing.
The only downside I found to the game is how easily it is to spend way too much time distracted by it. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone to the site for just a minute and then ended up spending way too much playing around. Congratulations to Falling Sand for winning this week’s site of the week contest.
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