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Cargo Bridge
By Justin Robinson
May 15, 2009 | 28 Comments
Tags: Friday | Afternoon | Game | Cargo | Bridge

Friday Afternoon Game: What better way to learn to build bridges than a bridge building game!

First off, apologies for the lateness of this post (more like Friday Night Game), but since I've StarCraft installing it's a good excuse to throw it up - this one is addictive.

Last week's Friday Afternoon was a timelapse vid of Watchmen being spraypainted onto a wall, and the last game we threw up was Effing Hail, but this one is something a little more cerebral.

In what is essentially a bridge-building simulator, you have a set budget for resources and two distinct materials for building.

Set buildpoints are around to use as the framework and a guide, but it's down to your ingenuity and smart design to not only get a working bridge, but get it done in your ever-decreasing budget.

Not all is bad if your bridge fails however; you get treated to a man screaming to his death and a simple redesign of the bridge can help fine-tune until you've completed it.

It's addictive and fun, and the name Cargo Bridge is pretty literal, so give it a go and get mesmerised by the bright colours

 

Atomic Challenge: Can you get past level 12? Post a screencap below of the completed bridge if so!

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Level 12 is a decent challenge!

Have a good weekend, Atomic!

 

 
 
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28 Comments
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Tezlin
May 15, 2009 10:03 PM
Fuck this game. :\

I got to level 2, they're all finishing the second platoon of boxes and on the second guy, it breaks. I'm like...WTF?
nesquick
May 15, 2009 10:08 PM
eh I gave up after level 3 because your wooden things don't hold each other together and end up falling down the hole regardless of what you do.
.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
May 15, 2009 10:26 PM
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/cyb3rglitch/bridge.png

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/cyb3rglitch/bridge2.png

That was my first attempt, worked straight off. I guess it does help that I'm an engineer, albeit a n00b one. :P
RaRaDawg
May 15, 2009 10:40 PM
...Yeah...level 3 is hard...stupid elephant is fat
azn_warez
May 15, 2009 10:54 PM
Level 12 completed. www.ocau.com/pix/0srm5
RaRaDawg
May 15, 2009 11:30 PM
I'm stuck on level 7 now...
My bridge keeps on snapping =.=
Cheesyback
May 15, 2009 11:45 PM
woo i passed 12 and then the browser crashed...but i snapped a pic!

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/91/l_ad282d035c854640835e999ecffc0cf2.jpg
J4pan
May 16, 2009 12:18 AM
stuck on level 20 -_-...
were are u others
Devilsmurf
May 16, 2009 12:44 AM
No engineer, but didn't find Lvl 12 hard at all. Will snapshot where I get stuck, or go to bed :)
.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
May 16, 2009 12:53 AM
I'm on the last level now. Looks like a pain. I'll try it later.
Devilsmurf
May 16, 2009 1:04 AM
Ok stuck at Lvl 13.

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y257/Greywolf1977au/CargoBridgeLvl13.jpg
Caelum
May 16, 2009 1:06 AM
12: http://i44.tinypic.com/2qu58h0.jpg

Was so easy i did it in wood. KISS.
Gubble
May 16, 2009 1:14 AM
It's kinda silly, as soon as you get the steel walkways the game becomes too easy. So I used wood instead =P

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/lh/photo/7zo3e5FQDgXpCwcaUDEA8g?authkey=Gv1sRgCIel4fbjmr-QgwE&feat=directlink

http://picasaweb.google.com.au/lh/photo/PT-l-djE6gPxCg0pOCwWbA?authkey=Gv1sRgCIel4fbjmr-QgwE&feat=directlink
Caelum
May 16, 2009 1:46 AM
Suspension bridge :)

[IMG]http://i40.tinypic.com/2hoxok7.jpg[/IMG]
.:Cyb3rGlitch:.
May 16, 2009 2:41 AM
I took a few screenies as I went through:

http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/cyb3rglitch/bridge-treasure.png
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/cyb3rglitch/bridge-treasure2.png
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/cyb3rglitch/bridge-treasure-awesome.png
http://i80.photobucket.com/albums/j180/cyb3rglitch/bridge-treasure-awesome2.png
Caelum
May 16, 2009 2:36 PM
just got 18... before it broke :P

http://i40.tinypic.com/2a9o291.jpg
ae86represent
May 16, 2009 7:47 PM
lol, this is hilarious :-) didn't have any real dramas till I got stuck on Lvl 20 GRRRRRR!!!! God forsaken falling chest keeps destroying my marvels of engineering. Best fun I've had in ages. Kudos for posting this gem of a game.
Argotha
May 16, 2009 8:18 PM
got stuck on 21(the boxes are fine, the elephants are not) so descided to do the challenege, now stuck on 33 mm (with 4444 gold)
Periander
May 17, 2009 10:41 AM
http://games.mochiads.com/c/g/cargo-bridge_v3/Bridge.swf
Periander
May 17, 2009 10:55 AM
Sorry, just posted for full screen.

Reminds me a lot of fantastic contraption:

http://fantasticcontraption.com/
scottath
May 17, 2009 2:41 PM
How do you do lv 20?
scottath
May 17, 2009 3:24 PM
dw - done it
Argotha
May 17, 2009 5:27 PM
Finished. God some of those were hard. How far can you guys get in the challenge?
antifunker
May 17, 2009 10:06 PM
Thank's for sharing. Had an incredibly fun hour building bridges - didn't expect that!!!
antifunker
May 18, 2009 12:50 AM
Google FWG Bridge ;)
mark84
May 18, 2009 2:47 PM
This reminds me of that old Pontifex bridge builing game, now THAT was hard.

After a few attempts I got this for level 12
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f204/erad84/Level12bridge.png
ron888
May 21, 2009 9:49 PM
http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9331/bridge.png

here is level 12
mark84
May 22, 2009 11:16 AM
Anyone been able to build a bridge larger than 33m in challenge mode?
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