alice-teacher Physics principles in Alice?

[Graham Toal]

I think Fantastic Contraption was the web-based one where you can create your own levels - http://www.sparkworkz.com/fc2/

Physics game bookmarks

Choosing a 2D Physics Game Engine
   http://www.gandogames.com/2010/05/choosing-a-2d-physics-engine/
Algodoo
   http://www.algodoo.com/wiki/Home
Box2D - Home
   http://www.box2d.org/
Box2D - Links
   http://www.box2d.org/links.html
Game Physics Simulation
   http://bulletphysics.org/wordpress/
Home www.algoryx.se
   http://www.algoryx.se/
Open Source Physics
   http://www.opensourcephysics.org/
Phun - 2D physics sandbox - Home
   http://www.algodoo.com/wiki/Phun
The Physics of Angry Birds Wired Science  Wired.com
   http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/10/physics-of-angry-birds/
Tracker Video Analysis and Modeling Tool for Physics Education
   http://www.cabrillo.edu/~dbrown/tracker/ (TEMP DEAD LINK?)
Cocos2D
   http://maniacdev.com/2011/01/tutorial-cocos2d-physics-game-example/
Phys2D
   http://www.cokeandcode.com/phys2d/
Physics games
   http://www.physicsgames.net/


Here's some more google fodder you can try

2d game physics engine

"Pc physics games"

"Online physics games"

"Ipad physics games"

"Incredible machine"

"Magic toy chest"



-----Original Message-----
From: Graham Toal 
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2011 11:34 AM
To: alice-teachers at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
Subject: alice-teacher Physics principles in Alice?

"Susana (Suki) Wessling" <suki at sukiwessling.com> wrote:

> 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.

I know exactly what you're looking for and I remembering bookmarking 2 or 3 relevant sites, but I have such a huge set of bookmarks spread over too many machines, that I'm having trouble finding them :-(

But if this is the sort of thing you're looking for, I'll spend a few more minutes looking them out for you:  http://www.algodoo.com/wiki/Phun

I believe there are also some commercial physics games that are customizable so you can build your own problems in their frameworks.  I think one of them is web-based.

Graham