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[hemmingjay]

Looking for games where you are a mechanic. I loved Gearhead Garage on pc and had a fun one for nds. Any others?

[Hugehead]

Well it's not quite a mechanic, bit I hear in this game called Dwarf Fortress you can make your own computer, electrical engineer work?
http://www.geekosystem.com/dwarf-fortress-turing-machine-computer/

[hemmingjay]

no knock on you but i am sick of every answer on these boards being "df" or "magma". I know df rocks, thats why i have been here everyday for years.

on a side note, i never get tired of the turing machine.

[Hugehead]

Sorry, I just wanted to be the person to suggest it this time, I'm pretty sure I've played a engineer game but can't remember the name, if I remember I will update or repost.

[Sowelu]

http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/?p=696 for electronics technician.
http://www.zachtronicsindustries.com/?p=710 for electrical engineer.
Not the same but hey.

[Leonon]

Engine of war lets you customize your mech's parts and how they interact with each other. There's a pretty big variety of parts so you can pretty much make it do whatever you want. The main campaign gives you a limited amount of money to work with though.
Robot Arena lets you customize your battle bot with whatever you want up to the weight limit. This one lets you build anything you want from the get-go.

[Hugehead]

Oh, I remember some people mentioned a space MMO where you designed your own spaceships down to the mixing of the metals, not sure what it was called but it might be what you're looking for.

[Astral]

Oh, I remember some people mentioned a space MMO where you designed your own spaceships down to the mixing of the metals, not sure what it was called but it might be what you're looking for.

I think that's Star Wars Galaxies, but it's come a long way in sucking since.

[puke]

yeah, engine of war was pretty neat with its circuit building.  it had lots of potential, and with some creativity (or by reading some forum posts) you could make some really complex things with the basic components.  unfortuneatly, the game was just a monster-swarmer like robotron or smash-tv.  mindless monsters, flat maps, no strategy, no terrain, no cover.  wasted potential, i think.

there is always this thing:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Incredible_Machine_(game)

and I really enjoyed this simple flash-based machine building puzzle solving game:  http://fantasticcontraption.com/

[Hugehead]

Oh, I remember some people mentioned a space MMO where you designed your own spaceships down to the mixing of the metals, not sure what it was called but it might be what you're looking for.

I think that's Star Wars Galaxies, but it's come a long way in sucking since.

No, it was a MMORTS, has been mentioned several times but I can't for my life remember what it is called, might be what he's looking for though.

[hemmingjay]

what is this mmorts? sounds interesting

[Virtz]

Galactic Civilizations 2 had a pretty freeform 3d ship building system. Shame it was mostly cosmetic, though.

Star Wars Droidworks maybe?

Can't really think of anything even relatively close to Gearhead Garage, though. Not related to being a mechanic, anyway.

What was the nds game called by the way?

[postal83]

Some of the most fun I've had making stuff is the WIREMOD for GARRY'S MOD

bunch of youtube tutorials on wiremod out there.

[Akura]

Moonbase Alpha? You have to repair life support and power supply for the moon colony.
Or dick around with your buddies in rovers while the people in the colony suffocate.

Is that not what you're looking for?

[hemmingjay]

The NDS game is Touch Mechanic and it is an EXCELLENT title on a system I rarely enjoy longer than 5 minutes. I used my fiance's pink nds in public for hours on end because I couldn't put this down.
Gearhead Garage was a natural progression from the very cool garage element to the classic hot rod games. I used to keep a 386 machine running so I could play Hot Rod 2. Good times.

Unfortunately there really aren't any hands on auto mechanic games. Motor City Online was great and would have evolved nicely if not for EA's short sighted leadership at the time. Perhaps I will play around with wire mod. Moonbase alpha lives up to it's name. Not a game yet.