Comments on: Friday Flash Fun: Roller Coaster

Friday Flash Fun: Roller Coaster

SciencePunk — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:25:35 -0800

This little game lets you learn about G Forces AND have fun. From the University of Cambridge's Centre for Applied Research in Educational Technologies. You must build a roller coaster that thrills the occupants, but be warned - if they throw up your score gets reset, and making them black out is also frowned upon.

By: chillmost

chillmost — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:38:42 -0800

Man, that kid is a wuss.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:39:18 -0800

A bit like Coaster, but not quite as fun. And without the horrible vomiting sound effect. (I can't even guess how many hours I wasted at that game over the years.)

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:46:54 -0800

Also, yeah, the game rewards you for making the most boring possible kiddie coaster. Not that it's not an okay teaching tool, but it's a lousy game. Play Coaster instead; I'm sure it's available from the usual abandonware haunts.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 02 May 2008 05:52:09 -0800

I like how the kid actually DIES if you exceed 5 gs. But WhyTF is the track implemented as a spline-type thing? Modifying many variables at a time != good pedagogy.

By: TypographicalError

TypographicalError — Fri, 02 May 2008 06:47:20 -0800

But WhyTF is the track implemented as a spline-type thing? Modifying many variables at a time != good pedagogy. You want that the derivative isn't continuous? I hope I never have to ride on your roller coasters.

By: Science!

Science! — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:12:03 -0800

"Oh no you knocked your passenger out. Try making a gentler track." Ummm. No?

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Fri, 02 May 2008 07:43:34 -0800

It's true; half the fun of a good coaster is blacking out occasionally. When the Batman coaster was new at Six Flags, you'd have to run there as soon as the gates opened in order to ride it. Of course, I'd never eat breakfast before and, as a result, I have just about blacked out on that ride at least a dozen times. There are wholesale sections of track that I've never actually seen because my vision's gone gray every single time I've ridden it.

By: Shepherd

Shepherd — Fri, 02 May 2008 09:20:45 -0800

Egads, what a dull generation of roller-coaster designers we will be raising if this catches on.

By: Eideteker

Eideteker — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:26:37 -0800

Ridiculously easy. I beat the last level by just tweaking the second dot and letting the kid ride the whoops.

By: facetious

facetious — Fri, 02 May 2008 18:44:53 -0800

did not provide a truly insane mega-blast adrenaline-bomb head-rush straight to my reptilian pleasure center as advertised. 4/10.

By: dejah420

dejah420 — Fri, 02 May 2008 22:02:21 -0800

My passengers are weenies.

By: uncleozzy

uncleozzy — Mon, 05 May 2008 14:09:52 -0800

This is a slightly more fun roller coaster game.