Contraption Maker

Key points

Features build in video renderer, which renders with selected resolution and frame rate as VP8 webm into <path-to-game>\movies\.

Console can be opened with §.

General information

Official site

Availability

Copies bought or activated on Steam, gives additional copy of the game to Steam inventory.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data\cmprefs.data^{[Note 1]} <path-to-game>\data\layout.data^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	~/Documents/contraptionmaker/cmprefs.data ~/Documents/contraptionmaker/layout.data
Linux

It's unknown whether this game follows the XDG Base Directory Specification on Linux. Please fill in this information.

System	Location
Windows	<path-to-game>\data\puzzles.data^{[Note 1]}
macOS (OS X)	~/Documents/contraptionmaker/data/puzzles.data
Linux	~/.config/spotkincm/contraptionmaker/data/puzzles.data

Rendered videos can be found at <path-to-game>\movies\, created levels are stored at <path-to-game>\levels\.

System	Native	Notes
Steam Cloud		Even though Steam Cloud is enabled, game doesn't use it at all.^[2]^[3]

General settings. Please note that middle section is for video recording settings, not graphical settings.

Language	UI	Audio	Sub	Notes
English

Type	Native	Players	Notes
LAN play		8	Co-op Use direct IP with console.
Online play		8	Co-op Same as creation mode, but more people can use it at the same time.

Technical specs	Supported	Notes
Direct3D	9

Windows
	Minimum	Recommended
Operating system (OS)	XP
Processor (CPU)	1.7 GHz
System memory (RAM)	2 GB	4 GB
Hard disk drive (HDD)	300 MB
Video card (GPU)	512 MB of VRAM DirectX 9.0c compatible

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 ^1.2 When running this game without elevated privileges (Run as administrator option), write operations against a location below %PROGRAMFILES%, %PROGRAMDATA%, or %WINDIR% might be redirected to %LOCALAPPDATA%\VirtualStore on Windows Vista and later (more details).