http://macintoshgarden.org/taxonomy/term/1427/0 en http://macintoshgarden.org/games/youngs-modulus <img class="imagefield imagefield-field_screenshot" width="1024" height="768" title="Fighting the aliens on a canyon at dusk" alt="Game screenshot" src="http://macintoshgarden.org/sites/macintoshgarden.org/files/screenshots/YMQuickGameCanyon.jpg?1251228566" /><p>Ever wonder what would be to pilot a combat robot for real? Enter Young's Modulus. Made by Austin Meyer, the creator of X-Plane, Young's Modulus is a crossbreed between a simulator and a strategic FPS that puts you in command of a group of All Terrain Attack Walkers (or ATAWs for short) against invading aliens. What sets it apart from the likes of MechWarrior is the realistic physic model the game uses to calculate things like collisions, inertia and gravity. The name of the game itself is a technical term used to measure the strength of a material.</p> <p><a href="http://macintoshgarden.org/games/youngs-modulus" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://macintoshgarden.org/games/youngs-modulus#comments FPS Simulation Strategy 1997 1st Person Austin Meyer Laminar Research Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:06:51 +0000 MacWise 1615 at http://macintoshgarden.org