Summary
- Future Pinball
allows you to create and play your very own virtual pinball machines
in real time 3D using an 'object orientated' interface.
Future
Pinball is Free Software used to created this!
Not
bad for a piece of free software.
The
software has all the materials the genre requires to make a neat
pinball machine - bumpers, lights, flippers, gates, triggers, targets,
add music and customise the table with your own graphics..
Getting
Started
I spent about
20 minutes scanning and exploring parts of this tutorial and got
to know the basics. Future Pinball has an easy and rather intuative
interface.
- Set two students
on one computer to gain the most from problem solving
- Spend 1/2 an hour on it yourself the night before. Share what
you found & invite your students to tinker.
- Be sure your students know the difference between 'testing' &
'playing' ;-)
- Set problems you don't know the answer to eg How do we get our
own pictures into the game?
