The levels require some ingenuity and engineering experimentation to solve. After solving a level, you can also look at how other people completed it, so you can get more ideas! See how many you can do!
Monday, April 13, 2009
Creating A Fantastic Contraption
Everyone likes games, especially our students. Fun and educational games are hard to come by, but the internet has everything doesn't it? While discussing a recent "indie" game, I was told of a game called "Fantastic Contraption." This game involves the the sandbox concept, which means you can solve the puzzles in any manner that you wish. There's just a simple goal of getting the pink ball to the pink area. I've included a screenshot, since embedding the flash for the game has the sound on and can be quite annoying.
The levels require some ingenuity and engineering experimentation to solve. After solving a level, you can also look at how other people completed it, so you can get more ideas! See how many you can do!
The levels require some ingenuity and engineering experimentation to solve. After solving a level, you can also look at how other people completed it, so you can get more ideas! See how many you can do!
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It would be interesting to see some specific trigonometry or structual engineering problems discussed in this game. There seem to be many related to considering the height of the moment of inertia, or the angles of beams in a structure. Without some direction, it is often hard to use intuition to solve problems in this game, and students (and others) rely on just trying different things until they work.
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