An amusement park management STG 's roller coaster emerged as a fighter who built a calculator

Amusement park management simulation game (STG) The " Roller coaster Tycoon " series is a persistent and popular title with not only as a simple management simulation game but also highly attractive attraction construction functions. In the project " OpenRCT 2" that is going to open-source the "Roller Coaster Tycoon 2" which will be the 2nd work of the series, a project " OpenRCT 2" has developed a computer that can add and multiply by the arrangement of roller coasters, It has become a hot topic.

I built a calculator made out of rollercoasters - Album on Imgur
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Someone Made a Calculator Out of Roller Coasters in 'RollerCoaster Tycoon' - Motherboard
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Overall view of electronic computer reproduced by roller coaster. One-digit addition and multiplication are possible.

The input part looks something like this. Run two coasters on this ... ...

A mechanism that one of the coasters appears in the calculation result part.

Calculations are basically done on complicated routes in the basement.

The coaster continues to move on this complex route only with inertia and can be calculated by colliding on the route.

You can see in the movie below how you are actually running the calculator made with the roller coaster.

A calculator made from rollercoasters in Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 - YouTube


In the movie, we are doing 2 x 8 calculations. First switch the multiplication or addition by the first branch. Since multiplication this time, set the branch so that the coaster will move to the left.

Switch the branch of the number you enter from the column of numbers next to it. This time we will do "2 × 8" calculation, so click on the 2 and 8 branch point.

There is a tunnel at the end of the branch, from which the coaster proceeds to the course for calculation.

The main part of the calculation is a mountain course with lots of lines. Each mountain is set to a level that the coasters can not exceed the limit, and one coaster will go back and forth between the mountains.

Another coaster will accelerate in the basement and ride on the main part at high speed. Then, it collides with the coaster that had been moving between the mountains with good timing, causing a big explosion. The collided coasters cross over the mountains with the impact of the explosion and proceed to the course showing the answer. The complicated course to underground abnormalities was designed to exquisitely match the timing of collision and acceleration of all 200 kinds of calculation.

The coaster appears at the tunnel exit where the answer is written. I could calculate 2 × 8 = 16 with a coaster.

It was about 4 years old that Mr. Marcel Vos touched the roller coaster Tycoon for the first time, he seems to have been playing the roller coaster Tycoon for the first time since then. When participating in OpenRCT 2 in 2015, Mr. Voss was in charge of the system construction part of the game. Mr. Voss took about 35 hours to make the computer this time, "I try to play the game and challenge the limits of the game and make the most of what I can as much as possible What I accomplished at this time is not quite useful, but it is fun to the highest. "