After writing my introduction tutorial to Erin Catto’s Box2D AS3 physics engine port, I found out that I was writing about version 1.4.3. Well a new version (v 2.0.0) is set to come out within the next few weeks, so I thought that I would put off any more tutorials on Box2DFlash till I find out what has changed.

Until then, I’ve found a bunch of fun games made with the Box2D engine and I thought I would share them with you.

Clog FLASH: (http://brainclog.com/clog.shtml)
Clog is a fun little flash game where you are some kind of white ice ball bumping and pushing 5 blue ice balls through an obstacle course. I haven’t played very far in this game yet. I keep getting distracted with other things around the fourth level. Still it’s a good example of circular collisions in the engine.

Poker-Blocks C++: (http://www.pokerblocks.com/index.html)

Poker Blocks is a commercial stand alone game that seems to be a mix between Tetris and poker. It seems like a weird combo to me, but it also looks fun judging from the video. I haven’t played this one personally even though there is a 30 day free trial. I just wanted to include it because it looks like one of the better games made with the C++ version of Box2D.

Hikkoshi FLASH: (http://www.skt-products.com/contents/hikkoshi.html)

I found this one to be very fun. There really isn’t much to it. Just click once to start the shot and then click again to let go, but I played it over and over again. My best score is something around 12800+ (I only remember the first 3 digits). If you have Flash Player 9 I recommend giving this one a try… it only takes about 2 minutes to play from start to finish.

Carona Pinnball FLASH: (http://piwna.pl/gry/pinball)
This is just a pinball game. In some foreign language. It’s a little slow too. The reason I’m including it with the others is… well it does use the engine. And, it made the author money. So, I find that inspirational.

Snowball FLASH: (http://www.uberdruck.com/snowball/)
This game was purchased by a radio station in England for their website. The version I am linking to is the original, before it was fixed up to be suitable for the other site. This is a really simple game actually. You are just throwing snowballs at (the prime minister?) a ragdoll and watching the physics make it fly about.

Hopefully I will have something cool of my own to show off by next week.