

The Internet Loves "Poly Bridge" and the GIFs Are Incredible

Structure engineering has never been so much fun—or so insane.

Poly Bridge is simple. There's a car (or two or three, plus maybe a bus or a monster truck) on one side of a virtual river. It's your job to get everything to the other side, safe and sound. Build a bridge to do it. Just don't blow your budget, or get anyone killed. 

In real life, that's a big responsibility. Building an efficient, safe bridge is a job that requires expert knowledge, "careful" precision, years of planning, and millions of dollars to build even the most boring bridge. In Poly Bridge, any old dweeb can build this in minutes:

While the engineering strategies you can use in Poly Bridge and the physics that apply to them are roughly analogous to the real world, the game plays mercifully loose with what's considered "safe." That leads to all sorts of fun solutions you can be glad to never see on the interstate, but that are fantastic to watch in action. 

There's a thriving community of would-be (and maybe actual) engineers collecting their works of art over at r/PolyBridge. Here are a few of our favorites: 

A double drawbridge

A transforming hammer-bridge thing

A drop-through that'll make your stomach drop

A disposable "draw" bridge

Second time's a charm

A single-use bridge for two

A jump-bridge for tailgaters only

[link href='' link_updater_label='external' target='_blank']A hot-air balloon bridge for the supremely lucky

For more insane bridges—and boy are there ever more—you can swing by r/PolyBridge yourself. Or, if you'd rather start building your own, you can pick up Poly Bridge on Steam for $12. It's an Early Access game (i.e. it's not quite done and might be a little bit buggy) and runs on OS X, Windows, and Linux. In addition to the problem-based campaign mode, there's also a sandbox mode where you can just build horrific monstrosities for fun.

Happy building. Don't get anyone killed please and thank you. 


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