I occasionally check in on all the popular gaming blog sites... ok, I constantly check in on them. One of my favorites had an interesting post today, regarding a new online game called Magic Pen. I was intrigued by the way this game was described, and had to try it out.

Magic pen is a puzzle game, where you create the puzzle pieces, by drawing them with... you guessed it, the "Magic Pen". The objective is to make a red ball (featured in every level) collect flags within the levels. The ball does not move by itself, and that is where the "puzzle pieces" you draw, come in to play. The game has a physics engine that affects your puzzle pieces in exactly the way you would expect them to. For example, if you create a box in midair, the box falls to the ground, gaining speed, and momentum on the way down. If the box is a small box, whatever it hits on the ground may not respond at all. If the box is huge, it may knock all other existing "puzzle pieces" all over the place. There are of course some restrictions, which are detailed in the game's tutorial/instruction segment.

The "graphics" are pretty nice and clean for a flash game, they almost look as if everything has been drawn on a piece of construction paper, and you are just adding to the existing picture. The sound consists of a neat little guitar/drum track that just loops. So far I haven't had to mute it or anything, but with the same song looping on and on forever, I expect that will happen soon enough.