A downloadable game for Windows and Linux

its a Grid based sand simulator, it has some small bugs, if you find any crashes or bugs please tell me.

How to play:

Scroll or press up or down to switch materials

P to toggle pause

to toggle fast

click or hold to place

1- 9, 0, minus, and equals,  to switch brush sizes

Materials:

  1. Air, basic material, no logic
  2. Sand, powder
  3. Walls, blocks most materials
  4. Water, liquid
  5. Tap,  replicates the first material it touches forever every 10 frames
  6. Drain, deletes everything around it
  7. Life, Conway's game of life, spreads to water
  8. Perm. life,  life counts it as a live neighbor, except it doesn't die.
  9. Slime mold, Slime mold
  10. Pitch, viscous liquid
  11. Acid, corrodes Walls, life, Perm. life, Slime mold, Pitch, Dirt, Mud and itself when it destroys something
  12. Dirt, acts like sand, turns water and itself into mud when touching water
  13. Mud, viscous liquid; when corroded by acid, will turn into water instead of air
  14. Mixer, not really a material, but mixes the square of the brush size up
  15. Glass, behaves like walls, except it doesn't get corroded by acid

the video is outdated and doesn't show all the new materials, neither does it show the new UI, so here's an image

i will update this whenever the UI changes

consider rating the game here:

Rate Pixel Physics SandBox - itch.io

Updated 8 hours ago
StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, Linux
Rating
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Authormig
GenreSimulation
Tags16-bit, 2D, Casual, Indie, No AI, Physics, Pixel Art, Singleplayer, Tileset
Average sessionAbout a half-hour
LanguagesEnglish, Portuguese (Brazil)
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
ContentNo generative AI was used

Download

Download
Sand-Windows (1.2.2) 82 MB
Download
Sand-Linux (1.2.2) 120 MB
Download
load_templates.zip 335 kB

Install instructions

double click the executable, and wait for the functions to compile, you wont need to compile them again, they get cached!! THANK YOU

consider joining the discord server here:

https://discord.gg/zkM5qYx9rv

Windows:

just double click

Linux:

in terminal run(while being in the same directory of the executable):

chmod +x sand

then to execute:

./sand

or double click

have fun

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Comments

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(+1)

supposed to be working right now but:

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thats really cool, thanks for playing!! Consider playing the actual version in the downloads, theres 2 more materials, and faster!

I was about to say that 151mb is way too much for a toy. But today its changed to 75mb, lol. Still seems like a lot for just 1300 lines program? (not trying to be rude, I use Gdevelop which makes huge exports for desktop due to electron wrapper)

its because of pyinstaller, yeah, this game was made with python, and pyinstaller packaged python with it, thats why its 75 MB, i cant do much here srry

Ok I tried the download version, I don't know why it beeps and boops during startup, also there's no way to change brush size?

beeps and boops mean progress, each beep means one function compile, press numbers, - and = to switch brushes, have fun creating your world!

(+1)

im gonna add a slider to change brush sizes, i forgot to add that when adding better UI, ill be right back

added a blue slider to change brush sizes, check it out!