{"id":659,"date":"2018-01-15T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T07:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stephencalenderblog.com\/?p=659"},"modified":"2020-01-01T23:15:44","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T04:15:44","slug":"filament-games-project-mcgraw-hill-pinball-energy-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stephencalenderblog.com\/?p=659","title":{"rendered":"Filament Games Project: McGraw-Hill Pinball Energy Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"480\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<video autoplay=\"\" muted=\"\" loop=\"\" width=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephencalenderblog.com\/images\/FilamentProjects\/Pinball\/Pinball.mp4\">Your browser does not support the video tag<\/video><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Pinball Energy Challenge teaches about the transfer of energy through unique pinball-style gameplay. Just-in-time feedback lets the player know when energy transformations have taken place, like when a turbine converts the energy of motion into electrical energy. Players navigate tricky obstacles, discover 19 different energy reacting objects, and learn all about energy transformations while solving mind-bending physics energy puzzles.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<table cellspacing=\"4\" cellpadding=\"4\" width=\"480\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"480\" align=\"center\" valign=\"top\">\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stephencalenderblog.com\/images\/FilamentProjects\/PinballLevel1Complete.png\" alt=\"Pinball\" width=\"480\" height=\"330\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>This was one of four games developed for McGraw-Hill Education\u2019s Inspire Science curriculum. This project was duel published as an HTML5 project and is publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/app\/pinball-energy-challenge\/id1033222319\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">available in the Apple App Store<\/a> targeting all iPads. We used the familiar concept of pinball to create physics energy puzzles. I was a solo programmer for 8 months of development \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stephencalenderblog.com\/?p=563\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">I have already talked about this project&#8217;s development in another post<\/a>. Biggest challenges were performance and tracking energy moving through the system \/ conservation of energy &#8211; which required writing all of our own physics and collision detection. 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