Launchball is a new flash game that’s presented by the Science Museum in London. The game plays like a version of the old DOS game “The Incredible Machine”.

The goal is to get a ball from one part of the screen to the exit at another part. It features a dozen or so of different “blocks”, which each having different properties, such as conducting electricity and heat, or being able to bounce the ball. You have to combine the blocks in certain ways, such as using a magnet to propel the ball onto a piece of rubber, in order to move it in front of a fan that shoots it to the exit.

You have to think though, because you can also use a complex block as something to bounce off of, making the game sometimes challenging. The game also states an entertaining science factoid every time you beat a level, making it so that you can grasp the concepts behind the game. There is also a level creation feature, which makes it so you can expand the fun past the games 30 levels.

It’s not often that games use physics, and even less often that they use it right, which is what makes Launchball an fun puzzle game.

Launchball gets an Aa

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