![]() The trouble is, there’s no way to earn more coins other than by buying them with real money, making the system feel like a cynical attempt to shoehorn in micro-transactions rather than a mechanism to help players progress. As such, the game quickly becomes a frustrating sequence of trial and error, however you get 10 coins when you start the game, allowing you to buy hints revealing a small section of the bridge structure (1 coin) or the full thing (2 coins). Sadly, the game’s tutorial is really not sufficient to teach the skills needed in later levels to build bridges, within budget, that will successfully distribute heavy loads. If you pass that first basic test, you can earn a grade for your bridge by driving cars or trucks over it, possibly sending them spiralling to their fates as your faulty construction fails around them there is a third grade available (tank trucks) when you make all of Camatuga’s main traffic routes passable, adding some replay value if you’re persistent. When you have built your bridge you can enter simulation mode and test your spanning skills by seeing if it will stand, or if gravity and its own weight will bring it crashing down into the valley below. You start each level in engineering mode where you must construct your bridge to be strong and stable, using only the specified materials for that level and within the fixed budget it’s not as easy as it looks, especially when you have to balance the use of more expensive materials and longer bridge spans. The game looks nice and features 40 levels made up from five themed islands of eight bridges, which need to be reconstructed from the available materials: Wooden planks are cheap and light, but weak steel girders are strong, but they are heavier and more expensive steel cables have great tensile, but little compressive strength finally, concrete can be used to create strong towers to support your structure, but it’s expensive and can only be used in certain places. ![]() This week we’re looking at Bridge Constructor and Bridge Constructor Playground from Headup Games.īridge Constructor is a bridge building physics simulation for Android and iOS, which lets you play as the architectural engineer in charge of reconstructing a series of crossings, after the country of Camatuga suffers an earthquake that destroys all of their bridges. Another week rolls around and Codec Moments continue our mission to test out games that might be interesting and entertaining, whilst costing you less than your cappuccino.
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