Playing With Gravity
Playing With Gravity
Playing With Gravity
By Tracey Peake
January 12, 2021
Summary
Enter "Ellipsoid," a computer game Cook developed that allows the player to see how physics works on galactic scales, by using gravitational forces to propel a ship through space.
Full disclosure - this former English major managed to get through the game and had fun doing it, although those black holes are a pain.
After messing around in it for a while, I felt more at home with these rules.
Cook: The first section of the game focuses on gravity.
Other systems are also simulated in the game, like temperature and dynamic liquids.
TA: Did you build the game for a particular age group or type of audience?
TA: How would you like to see the game used - as recreation, in an educational setting, or in some other way?
Cook: Hopefully both educationally and recreationally! This game is about building intuition.
I would love to see my game used to make those topics more understandable.
TA: Do you plan to create any more games in the future?
Reference
Peake, T. (2021, January 12). Playing with gravity. Retrieved March 04, 2021, from https://news.ncsu.edu/2021/01/playing-with-gravity/