The Powder Toy is a free and open source falling sand physics sandbox game for Windows, MacOS, Linux and android. Using The Powder Toy game you can stimulate gravity, air pressure, heat and velocity. It is great science game for kids and all type of people. They can use this game as a learning aid. This game comes with Walls, Electronics, Sensors, Force, Explosives, Gasses, Liquids, Powders, Solids, Radioactive, Life and many more components. Using this you can build almost anything. This game is written in C++ and using SDL. It is released under the GNU General Public License version 3.0+.
Install The Powder Toy on Ubuntu:
Go to the below The Powder Toy download link and download the latest Linux version in zip format.
Note: For me the downloaded file name is “powder-linux64.zip”. It may change based on the version number.
After the download right click on it and select Extract/extract here. Then open the extracted Powder Toy folder and double click on powder64 or right click and select Run. That’s all. It will start The Powder Toy on Ubuntu. just select the elements and start drawing.
Install The Powder Toy via snap:
You can also install The Powder Toy via snap on Ubuntu. For that open the terminal (ctrl+Atl+T) and run the below command.
sudo snap install the-powder-toy
Install The Powder Toy via Flatpak:
Open the terminal app and run below The Powder Toy flatpak command.
flatpak install flathub uk.co.powdertoy.tpt
It will install the latest The Powder Toy on your system. And open it using below command.
flatpak run uk.co.powdertoy.tpt
