{"id":813,"date":"2008-03-09T17:00:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-09T17:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/03\/09\/so-so-cool-looking-but-i-cant-play-yet\/"},"modified":"2008-03-09T17:06:39","modified_gmt":"2008-03-09T17:06:39","slug":"so-so-cool-looking-but-i-cant-play-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/UnhinderedByTalent.com\/Phi\/archives\/2008\/03\/09\/so-so-cool-looking-but-i-cant-play-yet\/","title":{"rendered":"So, so cool looking — but I can’t play yet!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much chops to Bad Science<\/a> for pointing out Phun<\/a>, a simulation environment\/game\/construction engine thingie that (judging from the videos) is just super fun (ho, ho, ho) to fiddle with. It seems a wonderfully open-ended platform for making stuff, which is of course the great strength of a pad and paper, or a bucket of Legos. This demo video gives a sense of the range of possibilities:<\/p>\n

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There’s a YouTube group devoted to this thing, and the number and variety of little clips there also speaks well to the Phun’s flexibility. We even have one person building a binary adder<\/a>, and another a working pinball machine<\/a>. Very, very cool.<\/p>\n

The sad, sniffle, miserable bit is that Phun<\/a> doesn’t run on Macs at the moment. It supports for Linux and Windows, though, and there are people working on a Mac port, so my fingers are crossed. It just seems like it would be too damn much fun to play with.<\/p>\n\n\t

\n\tTags: Computing<\/a>, Education<\/a>, fun<\/a>, game<\/a>, kids<\/a>, Science<\/a>, toy<\/a>, Video<\/a>
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