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Hello all,

I would like to apologize for not being very active and communicating with you players. I did not "take your money and go to the Bahamas" as someone emailed and asked. I prefer working on games, and never go on vacations (unless I have a computer with me to work on). What I have been doing is partially working on Apparatus 2, and partially on an even bigger PC/Wii-U game scheduled for release much further into the future.

Apparatus has now been out for a year and it is time for a refresh. I've been impressed by everything you have created and uploaded to the community section, but we need more tools than those Apparatus has provided us with. We need circuit boards, logic gates, gears, physically integrated ropes, and a platform to build just about anything. I want to see mini-games with real points-systems and deterministic machines that replay identically every time you run it.

It is time for Apparatus 2, and its name will be Principia. I will email out more information later this month. It will be available on Android and iOS devices, and it is 1000 times cooler than Apparatus, and a million times more advanced.

The simple objective of getting a ball to a basket has been discarded. I will give details on the new primary game mechanic in my pre-release email later this month.

Because you purchased Apparatus, I can work full time on games, which means Principia will not be as buggy as Apparatus. ;)

Here's a list of some of the stuff you will find in Principia (the full list will contain twice as many):

Wood
Plank
Cylinder
Ball

Metal
Wall shelf
Iron Cube
Ball

Mechanics
Rope
Trampoline
Conveyor belt
Damper
Cog wheel
Wheel with tire

Electronics
Generator
Power cable
Red cable
Wall motor
Motor
Transl. motor
Control Panel
Command pad
Lever
Suction cup
Hub
Scanner
Button
Toggle button
LED lamp
Stabilizer/balancer
Object emitter
Sound emitter

Logic & signal processing
XOR gate
OR gate
AND gate
NAND gate
Inverter
Exponent
Square root
FIFO queue
Integer caster
Circuit board
Debugger
Switch
Sparsifier
Besserwisser

Misc
Robot
Blockerbot
Rocket engine
Gas balloon
Needle
Mine
Plastic Cup
Sticky note with custom text

Here's a list of the game modes:
Puzzle
Puzzle Adventure
Freebuild
Minigame
Solution (user uploaded to new communtiy section)

I shouldn't spoil too much.. But the new control panel system is AWESOME, especially in combination with hand-wired circuitry.

Keep an eye open for the pre-release email. If you registered on the community section with a fake email, hit me up at sdac AT bithack DOT se and I will add you to the list.

See you soon.

Oh btw, please write all your suggestions in the comments field, any shit you missed in Apparatus and want to see in Principia. All crazy ideas will be considered.

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Level ID17411
TypeApparatus
Creatorsdac
Average rating4.18502 (227 votes)
Downloads0
PublishedJul 12, 2012
Last modifiedJul 12, 2012
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