Owing to a well-deserved promotion, Chewing Pixels’ brother no longer works in the Launch Pad area of London’s Science Museum.

He was previously an ‘explainer’ there where he’d fire Barbie dolls from cannons and envelop teachers in giant bubbles to entertain and educate awestruck children in the name of science. I went backstage one time and saw this incredible health and safety notice.

Anyway, Ste Curran MSN’d me last night to point out this Flash game the Launch Pad has just published on its website. It’s really quite good.

The interface is clean and stytlish, the colour palette and the sound effects just so and the mechanics solid, sure and comforting in a way that can only come from a game designer confident and assured in both their craft and idea.

The aim of the game is to guide a ball from A to B using simple tools and physics. There’s even a level editor for budding game designers to work with and a straightforward password generator so you can pick up where you left off. The game’s easy to use and understand and doesn’t do anything to unnecessarily put the player off in the front end unlike so many Flash games.

Completing each self-contained level reveals a fact about the forces/ tools you’ve used as well as recording the time it took to complete and the number of blocks you used.

Who made this?