A downloadable game for Windows and macOS

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What do dynamite, a magnifying glass, a bowling ball, a cat, and a blender all have in common?

They are just a few of the objects you can use to build crazy contraptions and incredible chain reactions. Part puzzle game and part eccentric inventor's laboratory, Contraption Maker is full of ridiculous fun.

The team that created the original "Incredible Machine" (for those of you old enough to remember), are back with the spiritual successor. Didn't play the original? Don't know what we are talking about? Check out all of these features:

Enjoy hours of puzzle solving with over 200 official puzzles and countless community submissions. Fix broken contraptions with a specific set of parts you are given to accomplish goals like turning on lights, opening fireworks factories, and throwing birthday parties for crocodiles.

Enter the easy to use Maker Lab to make your own awesome contraptions. More than 100 parts ranging from gears and lasers to bears and cats are at your disposal. Use the layered background tool to create settings for your contraptions to exist in, and then animate them to add some life. There's no part or size limitation to what you want to make.

Play online with friends to build contraptions together in the Maker Lab. Up to 8 players can build together in real time. Currently multiplayer is only in the Maker Lab, there is no cooperative puzzle solving yet.

Share your puzzles and creations with the world through the Workshop (On and off Steam). Thousands of Workshop submissions from puzzles to laser powered computers are already waiting to be played.

Javascript modding is built directly into the game. Create custom game types using all of the the Contraption Maker parts and physics as a base. Or start with a published mod and use the Maker Lab to make a new level. Easily share and play other mods in the Workshop.

Contraption Maker does not run on Windows XP

StatusReleased
PlatformsWindows, macOS
Rating
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
AuthorKevin Ryan
GenrePuzzle, Educational
TagsCasual, Cult Classic, Funny, Moddable, Multiplayer, Physics, Relaxing, Sandbox

Purchase

Buy Now$9.99 USD or more

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $9.99 USD. Your purchase comes with a Steam key. You will get access to the following files:

ContraptionMaker - OS X (32 bit only) 210 MB
ContraptionMaker - Windows 208 MB

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Hi Kevin,
I'll be totally honest. I LOVE all TIM games that marked my childhood and I LOVE the main Contraption Maker game. I created hundreds of puzzles myself and it has been one of my favorite game collections.

Therefore, my disappointment with the latest Incredible Puzzle Pack DLC was bigger. Literally 99% of the puzzles can be cheesed by using just one or two parts. It can't even be ignored because some of them are actually intended. Announcing that DLC as an homage to the original game and then offering such a bad untested pack is really disappointing, especially after such high standards...

Hi Kevin,
I think it may have been Jeff that I contacted, back in 2019, about getting a non-DRM installer and site license for the school that I manage IT support for. I still have the installer and key he provided, and I assumed that ContraptionMaker died off not long after, so I was surprised to see today that it's still going / has been revived!
It would be good to get an updated version.
Do you have any current options for schools?
Ideally it would be good to purchase a site license, and other schools in my (very large) district may like to do the same. It may end up being good exposure :)

Thanks.

Hi selfdestruktor,
Work on the old Spotkin version of Contraption Maker which included the installer stopped a few years - probably not long after Jeff (or maybe Peter) got you the key. Updates have been for the Steam version and also recently the Epic and Good Old Games versions. Right now I'm the only person working on it so my free time is very low - jumping between current projects, adding things when I can to Contraption Maker, and regular life/family stuff (I really need to stain the deck this summer).

Anyway, you can contact me at: [email protected]  Maybe I can figure out something that'll work for you.

Kevin

Awesome, thanks!

Email sent.

Hi Kevin, can you tell me more about the decissions to add new content to the game ten years after the initial release (pre-alpha) (like the current DLC's) and why it's no longer under the wings of Spotkin?

A few years ago Jeff (Spotkin owner) decided he was pretty much done with gamedev and handed off Contraption Maker completely to me. Jeff and I first started working together back when we owned Dynamix. Since then I've tried add content to CM when I have the time.

Thank you for the reply, and also thanks for showing up in the chat during my livestream a few weeks ago! I really enjoyed that. I'm posting one video each week, and I'll be posting the 160 puzzle pack DLC on the 4th of May. I bet you're going to be amazed about some shortcuts that I found ;)

I remember seeing some of the solutions people came up with to the original TIM puzzles - short cuts that I hadn't anticipated. 

What OS of macs are supported? The game won't launch on 10.12 (Monterey). Thanks!

It was originally written quite a while ago for the 32-bit OS on Macs. I just went and updated the description here.

Thank you!