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Ha55ii, creator of the previously reviewed Liquid Webtoy, has put forth another addictive webtoy: Powder Game. It bears a similarity in essence to the World of Falling Sand games, but takes it a step further with the introduction of wind and air pressure.
Most of your favorite elements from the World of Sand are present here, with a couple of new ones, too. Powder, water, and fire are pretty self-explanatory. Seed will grow a little shoot if brought in contact with powder (curiously, water is not necessary). Gunpowder will cause an explosion if contacted by fire. Ice does not get blown around, and water will turn to ice when it touches existing ice. Fire melts ice.
What's really cool are the wind and fan elements. Placing wind causes a temporary breeze to blow around, and placing fan causes the same effect except permanently. These winds blow around and around, spiraling hither and yon and causing a lot of chaotic feedback. You can add wheels that act like windmills and turn in the direction of the prevailing wind.
What I find most fascinating is that the winds are actually modeled by creating a difference in air pressure: low pressure shows up blue in the background and high pressure shows up green. This creates some beautiful shifting aurora-like patterns; static images do not do this game justice. Air pressure is also affected when gunpowder explodes, meaning that you can actually make a chamber that is pressurized relative to the rest of the screen by setting off some gunpowder in a sealed chamber of block.
Another neat idea is to create a system of fans, water, and ice. High winds cause the ice to turn to snow, but the winds also blow the water into the ice. It's fun to just watch the two competing forces go at it, freezing and unfreezing, making icicles and melting them. And every once in a while, igniting some gunpowder to shake things up!
I'm sure there are many more fascinating systems just waiting to be discovered. So what are you waiting for? Play Powder Game.
While you're over at dan-ball.jp, check out a couple of ha55ii's other toys: Compasses and Planet simulation. Both are good for brief diversions, but probably won't keep you interested for more than 10 minutes.
Note: These webtoys are Java applets, and therefore require a working Java runtime environment on your computer. You may download the latest Java free using the 'get Java' button in the sidebar.
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Oh noes!!
The unreinJavalackingnessnessocityness horror!!!
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(Sad person)
Posted by: Ninjaz
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September 22, 2007 10:23 PM
i want to play it so bad i want it now... help...
Posted by: Anonymous | September 22, 2007 10:58 PM
by god this was one of the greatest games ever! and look what we did to it!!!!
we soiled its server!
soiled it!
Posted by: ben5555525 | September 23, 2007 9:47 AM
why cant it connect?!
Posted by: Evan | September 23, 2007 11:28 AM
what happend to the powder game?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 23, 2007 3:19 PM
me wanty powder game but powder game not worky! boohoo, i have an amazing idea i want to try aswell. Who knows when it will worky again?
Posted by: Anonymous | September 23, 2007 3:54 PM
Yesterday i came on, and i couldn't connect, but now i can. Methinks the server has beeen fixed?
Posted by: Shadowgirl | September 24, 2007 5:31 PM
good news is the powder site is back in action... but still no updates from it :)
Posted by: newsletter | September 25, 2007 10:32 PM
this deserves at least two whole pages of w00ts
but I can't.
Sigh... and yay
Posted by: Ninjaz
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September 26, 2007 8:13 PM
Yay drag!!!
Drag racing! <very bad pun intended>
im cheezballz from powder game. i upload "save the fighters" type things. try them out plz.
Rules:
No bloc allowed
No drag allowed
No putting out fires directly
No moving the fighters
Another rule for people who like the powder game:
Posted by: cheezballz | September 28, 2007 2:31 PM
Drag-n-drop. Gonna be fun!
Posted by: Ninjaz
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September 30, 2007 1:18 PM
AHHH!!! NO DATA??? NO COMMENTS??? WHAT HAPPENED???
all my hard work thrown in the trash...
Posted by: Linkzcap | September 30, 2007 7:42 PM
Chill. Relax.
Its only temporary.
PS. LINKZCAP ROX!!!!!
Posted by: cheezballz | October 1, 2007 6:42 PM
powder game is so awsome. i played for 5 hours with out breaks. ;) Now i wear glasses :). %) $) X).
Posted by: sss | October 12, 2007 11:57 AM
I CLONED THE STUFF BUBBLES LEAVE BEHIND=)
Posted by: bjarni | October 12, 2007 12:34 PM
try making antigravity its easy
Posted by: FelixBat | October 15, 2007 9:51 PM
I found a way to have tons and tons of particles under drag.
Posted by: Frecklez | October 21, 2007 11:15 PM
how do you find the game? I've looked everywhere! How do you download Java too?!? :( HELP :)
Posted by: 565mae10 | October 22, 2007 4:56 PM
How do you make fire works that explode superball and other stuff?
Posted by: TheSage | October 26, 2007 9:36 PM
How do u make c4 stuf that wen anything touches it it turns into water???
Posted by: Anonymous | October 28, 2007 10:03 PM
how do you change ur right click?
Posted by: TheSage | October 28, 2007 11:17 PM
How can you make fireworks explode in diferent materials??
Posted by: Koizito | October 29, 2007 3:09 PM
To change your right click, simply right click any element on the screen.
You are obviously not using C4, you are using ice, witch turns to snow, then water. Make sure you are using the correct element, C4 and Ice look alot alike.
To add different elements to your fireworks, left click fireworks, right click what ever element you desire. With the fireworks on left click, and (say magma,but it is not the only element you can use) magma is on the other click, add fireworks to the screen, and watch the magic (after setting it off of course :P) I hope that this answered any and all questions so far.
Posted by: Ninjaz
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October 31, 2007 6:30 PM
woohoo!!! first to report on virus.
what virus does:
watever it touches it while turn to in about 5 seconds, but since thier is still virus the virus overwellms it and creates this cool ripple effect where the element goes through in waves eventually winning and the whole thing turns to the element very fun. good time waster. have fun.
-zag
Posted by: zagrag11 | November 2, 2007 3:31 AM
whoops sorry bout the grammer. hehe :)
Posted by: zagrag11 | November 2, 2007 5:02 AM
this is a correction of the slack language i used before.
woohoo!!! first to report on virus.
what virus does:
watever it touches will turn into it in about 5 seconds, but since their is still virus, the virus overwellms it and creates this cool ripple effect where the element goes through in waves eventually winning and the whole thing turns to the element very fun. good time waster. have fun.
-zag
Posted by: zagrag11 | November 2, 2007 5:13 AM
http://i215.photobucket.com/albums/cc235/fatalanth/untitled-3.jpg
super volcano
Posted by: fatalanth | November 9, 2007 4:32 PM
Some elements can "kill" virus faster, like magma and ice. I don't know if this is on purpose or just a coincidence.
Posted by: Cheeetar | November 14, 2007 1:29 AM
box is out!
Posted by: yjhghtfh | November 16, 2007 2:28 PM
this is so cool , i always wanted solid elements larger than 1 pixel
Posted by: Evan | November 17, 2007 4:09 PM
Awesome! Magma kills box, but you can't contain water in box. Box isn't exactly solid because fighters can pass right through it. Here's an idea-
1. Make two boxes
2. Drag one next to the other
3. Stop time
4. Fill one box with gunpowder
5. Fill other box with magma
6. Add C-4 in a line on top of boxes
7. Start
Posted by: grace | November 20, 2007 12:48 PM
Any suggestion for next elements? I want explosive gas and burning gas, also automatic snow =D
PS: Sorry my english o/
Posted by: Guga | November 24, 2007 5:25 PM
a slow burning fuse
a solid rock(same as stone but one big chunk)
Posted by: fatalanth | November 26, 2007 11:50 PM
make a bullet
step 1
make a bullet shape of block
step 2 fill up with exploding stuff
step 3 start on fire and it will become green
step 4 erase part of the bullet and boom
Posted by: fun man 2 | November 27, 2007 7:33 PM
Jay, you should consider re-reviewing this game. It is completely different from when it first was put on JiG.
It would have a lot of new people using and uploading.(and voting :P)
Posted by: Ninjaz
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November 28, 2007 2:41 PM
To make exploding fireworks, right click on gunpowder then left click on fireworks and make some then light the fireworks with fire then watch the exploding fire works!!
Posted by: Fireworks | December 5, 2007 2:47 PM
`````3.6`````
Copy-n-paste: make a box which doesn't copy bloc.
Get/Set (save): gives you a code which you can copy and paste in the box. Get gives the code and set loads the code.
Pen size change: 0 is now only 1 dot, and cannot make bloc, while the others are shrunk (ex. 1 is now 0, 2 is now 1...)
Posted by: Ninjaz
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December 6, 2007 3:22 PM
Fill most of the screen with water or stuff, any element but virus. Then drop some virus on top, and watch!
Hmm hm hm... *Starts sing "Calling All Cops" by Motion City Soundtrack*
Posted by: mattie | December 7, 2007 7:50 AM
make a fighting sea:
make a volcano with 1 by 1 hole on the bottom left and bottom tight and at the top. Now stop time and put a lot of magma in then some gun powder then a bit of fireworks at the top and a small amount of c4 the put a little bit of virus right by the exit. then unstop time and the magma sea and the purple sea will fight.
Posted by: flagalstan | December 8, 2007 1:06 PM
Right Click super ball then left click fire works make a stack of fire works then set on fire, and voila! insta-superballs!
Posted by: Anonymous | December 9, 2007 7:40 AM
```3.7!```
NITRO POWER!!!
10x more effective as Gunpowder!
Plus, another shade of green for those pixel freaks like myself.
Posted by: Anonymous | December 16, 2007 12:14 PM
Nitro explodes under 2 conditions:
-Magma/fire
-Extreme air presure
Posted by: Ninjaz
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December 16, 2007 6:15 PM
yeah, nitro explodes when touched with fire or magma, when hit with superballs or possibly other particles when they're moving fast enough, when dragged in larger than... i think size 3 or 4 amounts, when under a lot of air pressure, when C4 explodes near it (due to the sudden air pressure change) and... let me think... that might be all... hmm... to the lab! --a note or two: this means that C4 can finally be used as a fuse. and when nitro explodes, it sets off other nitro close to it, and if there's a big enough pool of nitro, for my computer at least, the game lags momentarily and then KABOOM!! too. much. fun. by the way, jay, you should really consider re-reviewing this. there's so much more to it now. i remember seeing it when it was first reviewed, shrugging it off as a world of sand clone, and leaving it, only to come back later and absolutely love it. please re-review it.
Posted by: waycooler
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December 16, 2007 10:42 PM
something else: nitro is more dense than water, and is a liquid, so if you put nitro on top of water, it'll sink. but oil stays on the top. this could lead to some interesting things...
Posted by: waycooler
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December 16, 2007 10:48 PM
Also, sometimes nitro explodes with wind exposure for long enough for the low and high pressure to meet at the nitro.
Posted by: Grace | December 17, 2007 7:20 PM
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r78/Sneazus/timebomb.jpg
http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r78/Sneazus/genocide.jpg
I LOVE Powder Game
Posted by: LazyFaceKai
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December 21, 2007 9:02 PM
it's been updated, i suggest updating the picture. thats all
Posted by: ME | December 23, 2007 10:28 AM
Neat. The added boxes (all the fun of powder, now in a box! Great gift for the little ones (aka, fighter stick figures)), virus, nitro (all the fun of dinomite, now in a powder!). Great game, if i could rate it, it would be a 5/5. Its so fun to put some fireworks kind of action at the bottom of the screen (magma and then cloning nitro...), a block arena with stick figure and boxes on top, and just watch them get kicked into the lava below! Muahahha! Oh, and did you know that you can take magma, then have virus take over it - but then put magma on top of THAT, and the magma will take over the virus? Odd. Maybe it was fire ...
Posted by: Joe | December 25, 2007 3:16 PM
I have just finished a box experiment...
-fill the screen with water (DOT S)
-clear 10 dots exactly
-make a bloc box and place a box in it (create it near the top with the water at the bottom)
-pause (stop)
-place 10 dots of magma inside of the box inside of the bloc box and start
the result is this:
if there are no dots to spare when a box is destroyed by magma, it will not go up in flames like it would with dots to spare.
Posted by: Ninjaz | December 26, 2007 11:47 PM
May already been posted but just to show you how cool this game is:
Firework Banza:
have fun
Posted by: Anonymous | December 27, 2007 9:22 AM
ooo! two different tipes of fire works
- nitro fireworks:
almost perpetual fireworks:
thanks jay!!!
Posted by: bjorn | December 27, 2007 9:46 PM
NEW 3.8!
Background aurora! The view changes with the wind (like when put some ice it's like it get elongated towards the wind) !!
It's well good. Try it out !!!!!!
Posted by: Eltro | December 28, 2007 8:54 AM
Im using the Powder Game with the BG aura filter, but I dont notice any difference. Can someone please explain if I have to do something?
Posted by: Claire | December 30, 2007 1:29 PM
aura works when there is a disturbance the air like fire or wind it makes a tail of aura around all of the present elements. hope that helps!!
Posted by: anon | December 30, 2007 10:06 PM
How do you make your creation appear in the save data section?!?
It's confusing.
Posted by: imj | December 30, 2007 10:09 PM
To make your creation appear in the save data section, simply press the 'upload' button (near save and load) and name it.
If you get the message that says "It is not possible to upload." then there is one or two of two problems:
100 people have uploaded a creation. To fix, wait until the next hour and retry. If it does not work, just wait until the next day.
-or-
You have uploaded a creation in the last 24 hours and must wait until either the next day or 24 hours after your last upload.
Sorry if it I confusing, but I hope it helps anyone with a problem in uploading.
I'm sure that Ha55ii knew that alot of people uploading would crash the sight, so he put a limiter to make it fair for everyone and to keep the sight regulated.
By the way, if you do not make it into the top 50 pages of the vote, your creation will be taken off the site after 4 months.
Posted by: Ninjaz
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December 31, 2007 10:36 AM
Air pressurize the whole place:
1.Make a big box out of block.
2.Fill bottom half with nitro.
3.Stop time.
4.Put a line of fan touching nitro.
5.Fill in the rest with nitro(all the way)
6.Start.Wait 10 seconds then stop.
7.Create passage at top 1 pixle wide.
start.
Inside the box is green,outside is blue.
Posted by: Anonamous | December 31, 2007 2:05 PM
w00t!!!
Vote Powder game for best webtoy '07!!!
Do it or I'll imagine that all of the fighters I kill are you... lol!
Posted by: Ninjaz | January 1, 2008 12:13 PM
Vote Powder Game for Best of '07 Webtoy!
Posted by: LazyFaceKai
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January 1, 2008 2:33 PM
how do you plant seeds?
Posted by: Woah-a-Turtle | January 1, 2008 11:50 PM
To plant seeds, get some powder, and put seed on top of it, putting more seed on makes it grow.
Posted by: Claire | January 2, 2008 10:48 AM
Hi, I found that when you have nitro-fireworks below magma in a container that has an opening at the top it becomes a Coke and Mentos thing! It's cool.
Posted by: Netboy | January 5, 2008 2:44 PM
i made a really good thing i was signed in and it would not let me upload it pls help!!!!!
Posted by: harry | January 6, 2008 8:35 AM
OMG if you drag stone it turns into powder!Also if you blow up something near stone it(stone) turns into powder and burns away!
Posted by: em | January 10, 2008 1:52 PM
ANTS IN THE PANTZ!!!!
new addition...
\o/ -3.9- \o/
ants... do ant things...
and they (as far as I can tell) transform... into either ice or C-4 (more testing required) when placed ontop and catch on fire.
further testing required.
Posted by: Ninjaz
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January 11, 2008 5:24 PM
after more looking into it...
ants:
`need solid objects (c-4, ice, clone)
`move at 45* angles and along borders.
`turn clear to thier element, and anything else to clear.
Posted by: Ninjaz
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January 12, 2008 3:39 PM
Dang, powder game only got third place...
oh well.
Posted by: Ninjaz
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January 15, 2008 3:28 PM
some how i got ants to build main areas and tunnles
Posted by: reece | January 20, 2008 5:56 PM
Actually the ants are quite peculiar relating to c4 and ice (I only tested with ice, maybe none of this applies to c4).
They seem to both transform and tunnel. Somehow, the ice grows madly when having ants rained upon it, and it appears that the ants are now all ice; however, there is still a lot of movement inside the ice...like, one-pixel random swirling. It looks like the ice is doing this on its own, but if you look very closely you can see that very few one-pixel ants are doing the work, tunneling. However this leaves a lot of things unanswered; namely, "wtf?"
Posted by: TheKitchenSink | January 22, 2008 1:39 AM
i was watching a scence where magma was making magma out of stone! isn't that cool!
Posted by: reece | January 22, 2008 8:49 PM
oh, and i think the magma option is just a automatic melted stone pile because stone turns to magma if touched by magma and magma turns to stone if touch by water.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 24, 2008 5:47 PM
I made a certain particle go rock solid and i accidentally made a big watermill.
Trouble is i did it by accident, but what i did to build it up was;
Drop seed, powder, gunpowder and water a bit, leave enough 'dots' for the next bit.
Then use Wind to blow part of the water off of the undersea Gunpowder, blow it up with fire and then continue blowing the rest up as the water flies around.
Now go to the top of the screen and continuously use air for a while, when it calms down, you should get solidifying particles.
Like this;
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=335cec2&s=3
Posted by: Vargo | January 25, 2008 12:31 PM
Just discovered a neat trick.
First make a sea of Magma, leaving bout 2000 dots left.
Make a small ball of Clone just above the Magma.
Drop a bit of Virus on the Clone.
When the 'Virused' Clone hits the magma it will do a purple wave and the Magma turns into a sea of Clone.
So basically, whatever Virus touches first, will turn the second thing it touches into the first.
Posted by: Vargo | January 26, 2008 8:21 AM
FOUR POINT OHH!!!!
Jay, now is the best time to rereview this game.
new format...
all elements at the bottom, all upload/save junk on the right...
and...
AIR!!!!
creates a high preasure of air on left click and low preasure on right click.
so left spits out
right is like a loose drag
it get stronger with pen size (0 does almost nothing, 0 is massive!)
POST YES ON REREVIEW!!
Posted by: Ninjaz
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January 26, 2008 7:23 PM
heres how to plant trees put Powder then seed then ants to make it grow faster and put it in this excact order or it won't work
Posted by: that guy off of tv o_O | January 26, 2008 7:50 PM
YES ON REREVIEW!!! COME ON!!!! WOOOOO!!! come on everyone, we need like a petition or something... i mean, it's not like everyone's forgotten about this game... the rating thingy says 38 votes as of 4:35 pm pacific time, 1-28-08, and they just reviewed irritation stickman, which is by the same author... or is it developer? i can't remember... ... oooh... i feel all giddy using html tags... especially what now are apparently new standard ones.... i used em instead of i for italics... anyways... i agree with ninjaz... this game is too awesome now to go unnoticed by most of the jayisgames community... i mean, come on! it updates with something new like once every one or two weeks! and now is v4.0! with new format! there is so much more to it now, it would be insanely popular... i even like it more than world of sand/sand sand sand... but yeah. jay. or anyone else who reviews games. this. game. needs. rereview. you can't review v1.6 of irritation stickman, but not 4.0 of powder game... it's on my favorite list, and it needs to be on everyone elses... well. that's it for my rereview rant. as many people as possible need to submit this game for rereview using the thingy at the top of the screen that says "submit a game" please people. save the powder game.
wow that was a long post...
Posted by: waycooler
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January 28, 2008 7:43 PM
by the way, i just suggested it for review. you all must do the same... please?
Posted by: waycooler
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January 28, 2008 7:51 PM
It's coming shortly. :)
You guys are awesome!
Posted by: Jay
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January 28, 2008 8:31 PM
W00!!!
GO Jay!!
make sure to make it look nice with a new shot.
I have an awesome radio I haven't had a chance to upload.
I will try to get a pic and send it to you if you want.
Posted by: Ninjaz
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January 29, 2008 4:37 PM
Sorry for the double post but here is the radio
Posted by: Ninjaz
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January 29, 2008 4:46 PM
W00T!!!!! HOORAY!!! We got powder game rereviewed... we got powder game rereviewed... Either that or they noticed irritation stickman, reviewed it, then realized that the powder game had updated like 5 gajzillion times since what, like June? Yeah, it was June. Then they went, "Waitaminnut... this game is so much more worth playing now!" and now it'll be front paged again, making it oh-so-much more popular! Yay! \o/ and Ninjaz, I am greatly impressed by your radio. i really wish i had the concentration and attention span to make something like that. Most of the time I just put explosive stuff in then make it go boom, laughing maniacally... and keep doing it for hours on end... keheheh... anyways, thanks for reviewing it again, Jay! I love your site! And... uhhh... umm... oh yeah, I've been visiting for a long time, and asked for help occasionally on the point-and-clickers, and that one html riddle game... I can't remember its name right now... but never actually posted as I have for this... oh, and I'm sorry for the repeated loooong posts... I just can't resist... and thanks for the compliment, Jay.
Posted by: waycooler
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January 29, 2008 8:14 PM
when i play powder game icant make solid stone???
what is this all about??
Posted by: same | January 31, 2008 12:16 PM
everything in powder game is dots.
If you want a solid foundation, try bloc (right hand side)
ty Waycooler for the radio complement
I am going to try to upload it shortly, but I keep getting blocked out. If you see it, Vote!
Posted by: Ninjaz
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January 31, 2008 3:16 PM
Bitter sweet moment...
NEW 4.1!!!!
Format reset to original (bitter)
Grid addition (sweet)
try it out...
grid is not the best thing that they could have included... but it sure is cool...
Posted by: Ninjaz
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February 1, 2008 5:13 PM
Sorry for the double post... but there is a shortcut key addition...
- Shortcut key -
[PEN-S] : [0]-[9]key
[START/STOP] : [SPACE]key
[SAVE] : [S]key
[LOAD] : [L]key
[GRID] : [G]key
[BG] : [B]key
[DOT] : [D]key
[RESET] : [R]key
Posted by: Ninjaz
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February 1, 2008 5:28 PM
Its a happy game
Posted by: Leon | February 1, 2008 9:03 PM
Does anyone have a workaround for single-button mice? Control-clicking usually works for right-click, but in Firefox I'm just getting a contextual menu popup.
Posted by: jere7my
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February 1, 2008 9:04 PM
RE-REVIEW!!!!!!
Time to leave this page behind and start a new one over on the new comment page... gonna be sad though...
Posted by: Ninjaz
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February 3, 2008 8:59 AM
this game rules!
Posted by: immibis | February 13, 2008 1:17 AM
New element: torch
It's solid, and burns everything that comes in contact with it. Water dissolves it.
Posted by: Caleb Eggensperger
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February 15, 2008 3:13 AM
hey new here and im on powder game like 12 hours a day :O
Posted by: cool kid
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February 24, 2008 6:27 PM
well u all think this is a cool 1 check out powder game 7.9 every things new its free to play it kicks ass
Posted by: ryan | March 7, 2008 7:00 AM
cool! gas just relesed!! when it is touched by fire it burns!
Posted by: Ross | March 31, 2008 11:41 AM
Also, there is an unofficial forum at http://www.danballforums.proboards59.com/.
Posted by: newbie
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April 5, 2008 11:33 PM
is there a way to save your pg work and get it back another day?? plz reply soon
Posted by: muffinofdoom (powder game account) | April 8, 2008 10:25 AM
he needs to make it downloadable with a element editor and screen size changer.
Posted by: Anonymous | April 11, 2008 4:16 PM
hey vargo,i think the solidifying particles you got were TREES.you know,the things you get when powder+seed happens.
Posted by: the pheonix
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April 26, 2008 3:15 AM
please please please does anybody know how to save things you make so that other people can look at them and vote them cos I have some briliant ideas so please reply and you I'll show you some cool stuff
P.S. my name on the powder game is Guitar Hero 3 !!
Posted by: peter the man | May 9, 2008 12:08 PM
I have a question, what does ant and superball do anyways? To me its useless.
:{
Posted by: Dragon
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May 10, 2008 1:02 PM
Hey guys do this!
1.Put gunpowder in.
2.Then Nitro.
3. Make sure ya have fireworks and put the thing on line.
4.Apply fire.
5.Watch the show!
Enjoy.
Posted by: Dragon
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May 10, 2008 8:50 PM