So, How's This Different From The Incredible Machine/Contraption Maker?

[Almea]

Theyr'e games that I like, and this game does somewhat interest me, but how's this different? What can this provide me that they can't?

[scott_harber]

Hi Velocity,

Being 100% honest, I only found out about Incredible Machine after I released the first version of the game, and I found out about Contraption Maker during my Greenlight campaign.

If you're making a decision between downloading either Ingenious or Contraption Maker, I'd say get Contraption Maker, because it's a more fully-featured product.

But... in terms of what is different about the games: Incredible Machine and Contraption Maker are more "classically designed" in their approach to puzzles. Every puzzle has a fixed solution, and you get a finite number of gadget types to solve each level.

Ingenious is a lot more free-form. Every level has dozens of possible solutions, and you can access all of the gadget types at any time. Unlike similar games, the challenge in Ingenious Machine isn't about solving the puzzle. It's about solving the puzzle in the most inventive way possible. It's more about spending the early levels experimenting with the gadgets and working out how they interact with one another, and then spending the later levels creating increasingly elaborate inventions because you can.

This guy on Youtube did a "let's play" of the game, that demonstrates what I mean...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkq1agjkkHI