Jump School
Task Force Hermes is sent to Draco’s Jump School to train on the use of elytra for air infiltration missions.
Teaching Points
I was thinking about how to create a story for the game that would give a player elytra and train them in its use and then I started thinking that it would be a great opportunity to think about basic gravitational physics and aerodynamics.
Science:
- The physics of failing objects including gravitational potential, potential to kinetic energy conversion (equation), terminal velocity, and air resistance as friction.
- Basic aerodynamics: lift and pressure differentials and control surfaces.
Mythology & History:
- The Legend of Icarus.
- The dream of human flight from da Vinci’s flying machines to Wing Suits.
Proposed Gameplay
A mission in the game will move the player through a sequence of training exercises, facilitated by NPCs, that will prepare the student for gaining their elytra badge, nicknamed “Wings”.
- Scene 1: Classroom: history, physics, and basics of flight
- Scene 2: Moon Room [do we teach moves? what can you do?]
- Scene 3: Naked Jumps – jumping off towers without elytra into water
- Scene 4: Spashdown – jumping with elytra into water [from towers or mountains?]
- Scene 5: Phaethon’s Bane – first jump off Dragon’s Tower onto pad
- Scene 6: Earning your wings – second jump of Dragon’s Tower, you get to pick where
Additional missions:
- Dragon’s Wings: learn how to use fireworks for powered flight.
- Spitfire Wings: learn to use weapons and shoot targets while in flight.
- Thread The Needle: fly through “The Needles Eye” without fireworks.
- Flying Fish: use fireworks to flying into and back out of water.
- Dragon’s Teeth: fly a course through the spires of in the Red Sands.
- Poseidon’s Chariot: use a riptide-enchanted trident for powered flight during the rain.
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Story Outline
Story outlines use [7] The Seven Questions and [7] The Shape of Stories frames for their structure.
Why | Theme / Plot Potential
Alpha | Imperative
Beta | Situation & Setting
What (Internal) | Characters
What (External) | Challenge
Who | Meetings
How | Events
Crux | Climax
Where | Character Review
To What Extent | Connections
Omega | Moral / Plot Realization
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Draco’s Name: Rex “Draco” Sohn: a tribute to Rex G. Finney, one of the first US wingsuit flyers Clem Sohn, a dare-devil who prefected a wingsuit, both in the 1930s.
Here’s some resource videos that might make it into the classroom training:
Noah: The school founder should be Sam Icaro. This is how he became rich.
Me: His wealth was supposed to be from a shipping company.
I’m thinking about making the founder Rex “Draco” Sohn, a tribute to two of the innovators of wing-suits in the US during the 1930s.