TORQUE Basics

Try it out

https://phoeenixxx.itch.io/torque-basics

Inspiration

I thought about past school material, and remembered my high school physics unit on torque. I had a fun time in school with the labs and wanted to create a game about torque.

What it does

TORQUE Basics has 3 levels introducing the concept of torque from the ground up. It is primarily designed to help highschool students solve highschool physics problems. The levels are designed in a way that you can interact and change different values and see what kind of outcome occurs.

How we built it

I used the Unity game engine.

Challenges we ran into

I haven't used Unity in a long time, so a lot of time was spent on simple things such as searching up how to flip a unit. The coordinate system for Unity and all the other quirks were pretty confusing and I sunk a lot of time into trying to fix tiny problems. And because I kept trying to fix the small things, my time kept decreasing dramatically and I was not able to get as much as I wanted to.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Making this with only two days is pretty satisfying to me. Although I didn't get as much done, seeing the progress I could make if I dedicate a lot of time motivates me to not spend all of summer watching YouTube as I have been.

What we learned

I learned having others is pretty important for projects in really short time spans. I thought I would be fine alone, but the amount of work and results that could've happened if there were 4 people collaborating would be a lot more than what I produced. I also learned that Unity is really quirky and I should not use something for a short project if I'm not super used to it.

What's next for TORQUE Basics

Making the visuals and experience less clunky and more pleasing is a definite first step. Also, adding more levels that give you control over every aspect of the lab (the force, distance, and gravity) would be interesting and make the app more complete. One level I wanted to do since the beginning was making the player find the correct amount of torque for a car to travel through a rough terrain.

Built With

• unity