Engineering sandbox game Plasma has launched in Steam Early Access, giving players the chance to unleash their coding skills and creativity. If you haven’t…it should give you ample opportunity to complete some training.
The game, the first title from indie developer Dry Licorice, was released and received positive reviews from users, calling it a tech-minded toybox. It’s a little more complex than your typical sandbox game, so if you don’t like this particular way of solving a problem, be prepared to start over.
According to Plasma’s Steam page: “Plasma is a creative engineering playground where you can build any device you can imagine. Make your own amazing robots, factories, arcade machines, giant rampaging spiders, entire game worlds, and more Bring something that exists to life. It doesn’t even have a name, and then share it with the community.”
Plasma comes at an interesting time, with an industry hell-bent on providing players with more and more complex tools to mess around and create. It immediately reminds me of the weird and wonderful few who create calculators and other complex machinery in Minecraft, and you can bet they’ll feel right at home in a game designed to challenge their expertise.
With games like Plasma, Fortnite’s new Unreal Engine 5 creative mode, and more, we may be entering a new golden age of user-created projects. A new generation of kids and curious adults creating the craziest things in different games, sharing them and inspiring others to do the same. Even if you’re like me, a bit useless at the whole programming thing, it’s sure to be something special to watch from afar.
