The Powder Toy
@powdertoy.co.uk
The Powder Toy is a free and open source particle physics sandbox game. It simulates air, heat, gravity, nearly 200 substances, and is highly moddable via the Lua API.
Look at this STKM. Sailing through the air majestically. Like an eagle. Piloting a blimp.
The site is back up now. We finished applying the PHP security patches and upgrading the site. No data was lost nor was anything hacked. For some technical details about what happened, see the forum post here: powdertoy.co.uk/Discussions/...
As a precaution, the main site (powdertoy.co.uk) has been taken down. This is due to a critical RCE vulnerability in PHP that could allow for the site to be hacked if we left it online. We're working on fixing it. In the meantime, your data and saves are secure.
Version 100.1 has been released! This is a minor update with multiple bugfixes and crash fixes for everything discovered since version 100.0. Some SEED/BASE reactions have been adjusted slightly and the intro text has been reorganized too. Download at powdertoy.co.uk/Download.html or on Steam.
Version 100.0 has been released! We've fixed a lot of bugs from the beta. There's also some new features, like adding an fps option to settings. Available now on the website, Steam, and Android.
A new beta has been released, 100.0! This version is an important-looking milestone, but is a pretty standard release reflecting everything we've changed since last February. This release adds BASE, SEED, stamp search, air sim customization, and more. Download and read a longer changelog at tpt.io
Version 99.5 out now - Thank you to everyone who played "Return of the Powder Dinn". All the elements have been restored to their original names and positions with your combined efforts. We'll post the Powder Dinn script to Script Manager later. Progress is kept. Hope you had a fun April Fools!
VERSION 99.4 OUT NOW! Changelog: - After a painfully long wait, the new TPT version has arrived! The game seems to have been abandoned for so long, that it's in a bit of a ... mess. The element labels have all worn off with time. We hope you'll be able to sort it out
I guess this doesn't work for open source games. TPT has almost 100 credited developers but is only 6-7MB.
I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length
With Windows 10's EOL approaching, why not try something old. I can confirm the next version of TPT will mark the return of Windows XP support.
MEGA STICKMAN RAGES. (by the way this was made as a joke, we aren't actually adding mega stickman)
TPT 99.3 is out! Since there were so many bugfixes this month, we decided to do another minor release. Some of the bugs are very old, like gravity wall leaks while undoing, or an infinite pressure bug in the corner. Others were new, like elements being missing in certain older saves.
Windows users using the portable version of 99.1 will get a GAME CRASH when updating to 99.2. It is still safe to run the update. The old instance of TPT will bluescreen, and the new instance will launch. Close the old instance of TPT, and then delete the file Powder_upd.exe that it leaves behind.
Another new minor version has been released - TPT 99.2. It fixes some newly-added bugs from TPT 99.1. That means the fps display is back in line with how it was before (no 0.00 FPS while paused), and some bugs on high refresh rate monitors were fixed.
A new minor version of TPT, 99.1, has been released! It fixes some bugs and leftover issues from 99.0, and also some old simulation oddities. Plus, the FPS cap now only applies to the main window, no more rapidly spinning spinners and janky scrolling when you turn off the FPS cap
Happy New Year! In 2024, we added features we talked about and put off since 2014. Next year, my resolution is to do the things I've put off since 2015
A special Christmas Update* is now out! Version 99.0 is now out of beta, just launch the game to the latest version. This version adds performance improvements in certain display modes and improves the search feature. *This update doesn't actually have Christmas content but it does still have SNOW
A beta for 99.0 has been released! This version adds better search in the save browser, and boosts fps in Fire/Fancy displays by putting rendering into another thread. There's also now in-game credits, a new tools api for creating Lua tools, and various simulation / crash fixes. Download: tpt.io
If you want updates on the latest releases / happenings of The Powder Toy, or maybe some silly posts from time to time, you've come to the right place. Download TPT at tpt.io or install from steam at tpt.io/steam
>Make account >Don't link it anywhere >9 followers Hmm, are you all bots?