Tension is the effect of two forces pulling on either side of an object. Like a person hanging on a rope attached to the ceiling the rope has tension because of the support force from the ceiling and the weight of the person pulling down. The result is the tension inflicted upon the rope which changes depending on many different factors including gravity, the kind of rope, weight of the character/s and the support from the roof / ceiling. The tension can be discovered by calculating the weight of the character, this weight (in newtons) is the tension on the rope.
How Tension Works in Video Games
This element of physics is common in almost every RPG (role playing game). Either it's on Ropes, vines, cables and even wire, These swinging items allow for characters to cross gaps that they normally wouldn't be able to cross and access new areas. These aspects of games relate to the law of Tension by keeping close to the physics in real life and maintaining how the same situations would work in our day. This can be seen through the parts of the game Limbo, the puzzle game. Limbo is a puzzle game where you are a little boy who is trying to find a little girl assumed to be your sister, throughout the game you solve puzzles based on your character's limits as a young kid. During a Mechanical part in the game you use your characters weight to create tension in a rope to pull a door open and to turn the world. This allows you to progress and solve puzzles in the world and relates to physics through these rope puzzles. Through the puzzle you can see below we can imagine the character has a weight of X, this weight pulls on the rope to open the first door on the right, this means that the characters weight is more than or equal to the weight of the door; his weight causes tension in the rope that pulls the door open.
Reveiw questions
1. If a character who weighs 60 kg needs to open a door that weighs 100 kg using a rope what can he do to help him open the door?
(add weight to him/her self)
2. If a 59 kg character jumps from a ledge to a rope that has a 30 kg weight attached to it how much tension does the rope have?
(89 kg)
(add weight to him/her self)
2. If a 59 kg character jumps from a ledge to a rope that has a 30 kg weight attached to it how much tension does the rope have?
(89 kg)