But you can't do that AFAIK. You can't pick up two wheels and a chassis spread around a level and attach the wheels to the chassis via pivots to make a vehicle. That would be awesome if you could! The pivot function isn't available in the in-game Popit though, it seems.
Hang on, I never said I wanted unlimited in-game powers! I said, I liked the idea with the constraints of a currency to buy components. What you suggest in providing component sin game for the player to assemble is also perfectly acceptable to me, maybe even better than the open currency model. That's just not an option though as far as I can tell. All construction functions seem to be removed. In the latest Walmart promo video, the Popit menu is called up and the only thing you have there are stickers. Perhaps, fingers crossed, it's a reduced menu which expands as you play the game with more features. If the player can do nothing other than stick pictures on things, and they can't assemble any contraptions of their own design, the game will be a little less than it could have been and then was first suggested (but of course we have had lots of improvements since then too, such as control code. I am clearly being greedy!)
At this point though, everything is pointing to no in-game construction, short of pulling and pushing blocks. No building siege engine whether from parts you buy or parts you find.
The blog guy says you tap the stick rather than free run into it, so yes, it sounds like it's just a quick nudge. I guess he means you have to switch in, rather than wander in and out. But it also automatically switches layers if there's an open layer to jump into, which the blogger didn't actually like.
