Mark Ellis: Train Bridge Inspector is a comedic physics game for the lazy
Look, don't touch
Mark Ellis: Train Bridge Inspector is a game about train accidents, made entirely on a train.
More specifically, it's a game about ridiculously unstable railroad bridges, developed during the 52 hour Train Jam event that annually precedes GDC in San Francisco.
In it, you're tasked with giving a series of procedurally generated bridges your official Mark Ellis stamp of approval... or not.
After you make your choice, based (no doubt) on your years of civil engineering expertise, you get to watch a small train car chug along the tracks.
Your determination of structural integrity makes no difference to the train.
Either it makes it across the bridge with no problems (just a few loose stones here and there), or it collapses in a flurry of buckling wood and arbitrarily placed support beams.
Your only role is to guess which it'll be.
In this way, Mark Ellis: Train Bridge Inspector is like a physics-based bridge constructing game for the lazy.
It was made solely for the folks who only play physics games to watch things break in all kinds of dynamic, emergent, and hilarious ways.
You can download Mark Ellis: Train Bridge Inspector for free on the App Store.
