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It Walks!
Sodarace allows you to create creatures that race. The first few Sodacreatures you make will probably collapse in a heap or wiggle and jiggle themselves exactly nowhere. Mine did at any rate. Making my first creature that actually managed to lurch its way from one side of the screen to the other was a real buzz. It walks! It walks! That is when the fun really starts: when you start to experiment and gradually discover there are actually lots of ways you can make your creatures move ... just like real-life creatures, or even babies: some crawl, some bum-shuffle, some roll their way around before they learn to walk ... just like your first Sodacreatures. To get you off to a flying (well maybe lurching) start, follow the links for step-by-step instructions of how to make one of the simplest creatures that can move from one side of the screen to the other.
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Start to create a Sodacreature Once you've got that first triangle to lurch across the screen, try a more engineered triangle that limps across the screen. Once your Sodatriangle creatures lurch and limp read on to find out how mobile triangles in the form of swarms of NASAs TETWalkers could one day be lurching round Mars. More on SodaraceThe Maze
To the left is a hospital bed where someone is playing a guessing game
Through a door is a high tech car and a man on the floor in pain
Down the corridor is an alien
