alice-teacher Physics principles in Alice?

[James Vanderhyde]

I'm guessing that by "physics-type games" your friend is thinking of games that simulate gravity, collision detection, etc. I have found this difficult in Alice. Many of my students have created games, but collision detection (keeping objects from overlapping) is always one of the hardest parts. Some ignore the problem completely and hope the player won't try to walk through the walls.

James
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Dr. James Vanderhyde
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Benedictine College
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On Apr 20, 2011, at 9:05 PM, Susana (Suki) Wessling wrote:

> Hi -- I got this query from a friend and can't answer it as I haven't looked for that in Alice yet. Can anyone offer and answer?
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> Does anyone know if any of the usual game creation programs - Scratch,
> Alice, etc. - can be used to create physics-type games? If not, which
> programs might be best to start out with? This is for my almost 10
> year old.
> Thanks,
> Suki
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