Desktop Toys: convert Mac desktop into a playground
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
Development of cognitive and educational games applications is certainly useful. With these tools a child can learn to understand many important things that he encounters in life. Adults can people find in these games unexpectedly effective means to escape from the complex world and to stay a little child.
We found a very interesting application for Mac called Desktop Toys. In short, it is a real box of toys, but it is located on your computer desktop. What is in this box? It consist of 95 different "toys", divided into 6 categories. The essence of the work with the application is pulling out of the box different toys and building of them all kinds of designs and patterns.
Home Desktop Toys trick is that all of these pixel sites is not static. Each subject is subject to the general laws of physics + has some of their own properties. For example: take out of the box a basketball hoop and put somewhere on the desktop. We reach then basketball and try to just throw it "on the floor". To our surprise, the ball will bounce right on the surface, and tarektoriya his flight will depend on the initial vector of the throw. That's the simple way, you can quickly organize your desktop a small sports field and throw the ball into the ring.
Zalipnut actually possible on a variety of mechanical pieces and magnets. At our disposal there are gears, which can be connected in a variety of designs, rotating beam, the circuit with the magnets, the machine, which can be put jumps and other obstacles. All this is in full compliance with the physics and cheerful sound design. There is a separate category of musical toys, interaction which is accompanied by the relevant extract sounds.
Still have soldiers, guns and dynamite. Fans blow surely test the effect of dynamite to other objects and launch the projectile out of the mortar. Almost every object knows something of their own, and from this variety you can create a really fun things. The main thing - do not find yourself 2-3 hours in the same position in front of the computer, although if you have free time ...
Do not forget that all this is done for the children. With Desktop Toys easy to show daze foundations of physics and make it develop logic and imagination. At the same time it is an excellent digital designer, which is guaranteed to take the child for an unlimited period of time.
It is possible that to understand the principle of action of some toys on the move will be quite difficult. For these purposes, it created a clear and simple tutorial, which explains clearly and chips available for each object.
Management implemented in the application is very simple: click on a category opens a set of toys. After that, just drag the toy on the desktop. To remove excess or unwanted object can sufficiently drag it back into the box from the clamped key Ctrl.
The box itself takes quite a decent place on the screen, but it can "move" up by pressing the button, freeing up space for toys.
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Desktop Toys can be recommended both as a means of recreation and relaxation for adults, and as exciting to develop children's games. Despite the fact that the current version of the application already has 95 different sites, anyone can invite developers to add new objects, which in his opinion is not enough in the game. For these purposes, the site Desktop Toys has a special section.
Desktop Toys | Mac App Store (169 p).