How to Make Roller Coaster Games Online
Riding roller coasters has been a form of entertainment for a long time; for some, creating them can be just as fun. Using just your Web browser and an Internet connection, you can construct your own virtual roller coaster online. The websites below provide loopy entertainment that's suitable for all ages.
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Instructions
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Discovery Kids' Build a Roller Coaster
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Navigate to the "Discovery Kids: Build a Roller Coaster" website (see Resources section).
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Click "Close Window" to close the Instructions window.
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Click and drag the red roller coaster icons onto the unfinished sections of your roller coaster to add different types of curves to your track. For example, if you click and drag the "Boomerang" icon into your roller coaster, you'll see a couple of crazy loops added to your track.
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When your roller coaster is fully created, click "Submit Your Coaster" to see how your coaster does on the "Fear-o-meter." You'll get different feedback according to how scary or dull the ride was.
GamesGames' Roller Coaster Creator
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Navigate to the "GamesGames" website (see Resources section). The purpose of this roller coaster game is to draw a roller coaster track that gets you the most coins in the level while getting your riders to the finish line.
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Click "Start," and then click the upper-third of the game window that has the stars numbered 1 through 7 (these are the first seven levels of the game; you have to start here).
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Click and drag the pencil to create sections of track. Draw a roller coaster track line that leads the riders to all three gold coins on the screen and then gets them to the finish line. Click "Play" to start the riders off on your track. If you were successful, click "Continue" to continue to the next level. If not, click "Try Again."
Funderstanding's Roller Coaster Simulation
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Navigate to the "Funderstanding" website (see Resources section). The purpose of this roller coaster game is to simply finish. Given two hills and a loop, you can change the sizes of the hills and loop to find the right combination that doesn't make the coaster fly off the track, and that gets around the loop and to the finish line.
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Slide the "Hill1," "Hill2" and "Loop" knobs to the right and to the left to make them bigger and smaller respectively.
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To see the results of the coaster you made, click the green "Play" button. If your coaster fails (it flies off the track or doesn't finish), click the "Reset" button in the bottom right corner to try again.
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- Photo Credit roller coaster image by jc from Fotolia.com
