Coaster Creator
  
 
 
 

Project Description

Ever wanted to build your own roller coaster? Of course you have! Coaster Creator is a design-based exploration of energy transfer and the concepts of potential and kinetic energy. Step into the role of a roller coaster engineer and design a top-scoring ride that both thrills riders and dissipates all its energy before reaching the end of its track. Customize the look of your coaster and its mass, then construct a custom track complete with death-defying drops and pulse-pounding loops. Coaster Creator is easy to learn but difficult to master!

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Project Image Gallery

The main menu
The coaster customization menu
The player tweaks their track
The Electric Red Shark embarks on its first run
The Electric Red Shark rounds the top of the first hill
The Electric Red Shark generates some valuable screams
The Electric Red Shark scores points for a well-crafted loop
The Electric Red Shark scores points for a well-crafted hill
The Electric Red Shark comes in hot
The player reviews a graph that shows energy transfer over time
The local paper reports on the new coaster
The tutorial provides useful information about energy transfer
 
 
 
 

Project Video Gallery

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Project Partners

The JASON Project

Ashburn, Virginia, USA

Using the cutting-edge research and researchers of its longtime partners - National Geographic, the National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) - The JASON Project provides...

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Project Dev Blog

C1 With a Twist

24 Jul 2009 by Spencer Evans

There are many different ways to display a curve in modern computer graphics. The most common method uses some type of Cubic Hermite Spline approximation.

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Project News

Energy Suite Takes CODiE

Fri 28 May 2010 - 08:52AM by Erin Mehlos

Coaster Creator, Transform It!, and Energy City have jointly won a ...

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JASON on ScienceEducation.gov

Thu 20 May 2010 - 08:51AM by Erin Mehlos

There's a new portal for science education in town. Aptly-named and currently in its beta phase, ScienceEducation.gov is an aggregate of educational content from various federal science agencies,...

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