Freeware Review: Crayon

Crayon takes me back to much simpler times. The late eighties to be specific. I don't remember the fashion or music that everyone was listening to at that time. All I remember is the sight of one kid in school mixing boogers with rubber cement, and chunky white paste, to create some sort of toxic mush parfait.

My memory kind of sucks. Not sure if that kid had to go to a doctor to get his stomach pumped, or if his mom showed up later in the day and smacked him in the head. One things for sure: coloring with over sized crayons was a great way to pass time as a kid.

Those big, anti-roll crayons with the flat side were shear genius. Because they were flat flat on one side like a deflated tire, you didn't have to chase them around the table and risk injury when they fell off, and you went flying into the pale kid with the persistent cough.

I avoided many a flu because of those crayons A video game with the same name could only hope to achieve half the awesomeness of those thing. Crayon is a physics game that has plays drawing geometric shapes to capture a strategically placed star on each level.

The great thing about physics games is that they don't have to be beaten using a set pattern. If you have a ball on one platform and star on another, you can either just draw a bridge, or create a seesaw to launch said ball to your target.

A third option would be to fill the screen with shapes of differing sizes, and hoping for the best. It's your call. The road less traveled is often the most rewarding. That is, of course, due to an unexpected adventure sure to be had before reaching your final destination.

Crayon Physics' aesthetics are pleasing to the eyes, in that "hey look, Timmy drew an....errr...uh....well, on the refrigerator it goes!" sort of way. Using a scrap paper texture gives the game a cutesy, kids sketch look.

This is a pretty fun game overall. Too had it's just a 7 level demo though. Hopefully, Crayon Physics Deluxe will allow for the creation of a topheavagon(which is a shape I made up that looks like a combination of a hexagon and the silhouette of Dolly Pardon.) Check out Kloomigames for more interesting indie projects.

Crayon Physics Demo.
Kloomigames.
Crayon Physics Deluxe.