Sport$ TycoonExtreme

So what’s it about?

• Experience the thrills of extreme sports

• Teaches physics of falling bodies, projectile motion, springs, and centripetal force

• Appeals to non-gamers and non-academically inclined students

So what’s it about?

• Players Bungee Jump, BASE jump, street luge …

• Event booths set up by players

• Massively multiplayer web based game

How do you play?

• [Insert screenshot here]• Simple control scheme – setup,

calculate and estimate– Setting up a booth = drag and drop and

entering values– Using a booth = entering values and one or

two button presses

• Balance Thrill and Risk to gain Money and Rep

What do players do?

What do players learn?

Event ContentBungee Jumping Multi-dimensional kinematics chaining

into a spring problem; Newton’s Second Law

BASE Jumping Multi- dimensional kinematics chaining into another multi-dimensional

kinematics problem; Newton’s Second Law

BMX Jumping Projectile motion

Freefall Rope Jumping

Multi-dimensional kinematics; Newton’s Second Law; Friction

Ski Jumping Multiple instances of projectile motion; Friction

Ice Luge One dimensional kinematics and uniform circular motion

Snowboarding Projectile motion; Friction

Pedagogy

• Students learn through experimentation

• Opportunities for reflection• Players get feedback from test

runs and watching other players• Fits into several teaching plans• Interactivity much more interesting

than textbook word problems

Questions?