Wavesmith: Physics Puzzles

Martin Dahl

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About this game

Wavesmith is a puzzle game about waves, and every wave in it is real. The board is a live simulation of the wave equation, so walls truly reflect, lenses truly focus, and two sounds truly cancel. There are no scripted rules to learn: if it would work in a physics lab, it works here.

Place walls, mirrors, absorbers, lenses, prisms, and emitters to steer sound, water, and light onto targets, keep quiet zones quiet, and shatter crystals with exactly the right note.

SIX CHAPTERS OF REAL PHYSICS • Reflection: bounce sound around corners and focus it with curved dishes. • Interference: cancel a machine's hum with anti-noise, the way noise-cancelling headphones do. • Resonance: shatter a wine glass at its own pitch and ring a chamber like an organ pipe. • Refraction: bend sound with lenses, guide whale song down a slow channel, focus waves over a shoal. • Light: split white light into a rainbow with a prism and trap it by total internal reflection. • Doppler: tune a moving siren so its rising and falling pitch hits the right note.

PLAY YOUR WAY • Three stars per level: solve it, use fewer parts, and spend less energy. • Watch the waves move and see exactly why your idea worked, or didn't. • No lives, no ads, no energy meters to wait on: retry as often as you like. • Haptics that you feel as waves build toward a goal. • Color-blind palette, reduced-motion mode, keyboard and screen-reader support.

ONE PURCHASE, THE WHOLE GAME The first chapters are free. A single purchase unlocks every chapter, including future ones.

What’s new

Fix Android audio crackle and show Play Games achievements on the title screen.