My friend showed me Powder Toy on his usb one day in the computer lab. Once I saw a nuclear bomb explosion and electronics, I knew I had to download it and try it out.
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I was checking out python projects cuz I was bored and found a falling sand game in python and the first thing I saw was: This game is like the powder toy, powder game, etc... so I checked the first option and found the powder toy.
I found it in mid-2010 in a russian website called 3D-(something I can't remember). They had only a Windows version, and there was a link to the old TPT website (http://hardwired.org.uk/), which was offline. So I just searched google for "The Powder Toy" and found the new site.
same with me
I was working on a music project way back in the autumn of 2008, the start of grade 6, and since nobody was home, I began to procrastinate. I went to andkon.com and found the "Falling Sand Game/Quick Sand Hell". I thought it was really cool, but the physics were unrealistic. I started Googling similar games until I stumbled upon the famous DanBall Powder Game, which I was obsessed with for a long time. It was near the end of 2008 when I went to play Powder Game, and the way I always got to the website was typing "The Powder Game" into Google and clicking the first link. While I was typing, I saw Google's suggestion for "The Powder Toy", and, not knowing what is was, I ended up at the old site at powder.unaligned.org, where I downloaded the game. I have pretty much been completely obsessed with TPT's realistic physics and many elements ever since, and I even got into modding in 2012. Wheras I do tend to abandon the mods and forums and the game completely for months at a time, I have always loved TPT and it was always be one of my favourite programs.
That's what I pretty much did. Except I was grade 4th.