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From:
Volker Schlecht <openbsd-ports@schlecht.dev>
Subject:
Re: New: powder-toy - a physics sandbox
To:
Thomas Frohwein <tfrohwein@fastmail.com>
Cc:
ports@openbsd.org
Date:
Wed, 19 Jun 2024 23:23:37 +0200

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Great, now I have to spend hours playing with that :-)

ok volker@

On 2024-06-18 21:49, Thomas Frohwein wrote:
>Hi,
>
>Please find attached a new port for games. The Powder Toy is a physics
>sandbox that simulates materials and their interactions, including
>heat, gravity, pressure. There are also electric circuits and it's
>possible to build simulated electronic machines.
>
>It looks like a graphics editor on first sight, but stuff interacts.
>As a simple example, you can make a tub, putt oil in it, and then light
>it up. There is an integrated repository of scenarios and objects that
>can be used to experiment. The project has been around since 2008.
>There is a Wikipedia entry[1] and now also a Steam page[2].
>
>The port itself is relatively unproblematic. Only 1 patch is needed
>(see [3] for pull request for this) and a few flags for meson. Because
>of LuaJIT, I have to set USE_NOBTCFI for now, like in lang/luajit.
>
>ok to import under games/ ?
>
>[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Powder_Toy
>[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/1148350/The_Powder_Toy/
>[3] https://github.com/The-Powder-Toy/The-Powder-Toy/pull/954