Combine my passion for video games and structural engineering?

[StructuralGamer]

I make FEA models of most things structural; bridges, tunnels, larger buildings etc. These models are not meant to be eye candy but strictly for calculational reasons, to find stress concentrations, displacement and so on. I also want to get into game development on the side, and I was wondering if anyone here has an idea of how I could combine these two?

Making video game is not easy, also its not very profitable if you look at the numbers. But still, I would like to try my hands at it and was wondering if there are any clever/profitable ways I could combine the two? I dont have family or girlfriend or anything else so I have a lot of free time after work.

 

[WARose]

The one that always bothered me was the Six million dollar man. (The TV series with Lee Majors.) He had new arms and legs......but he'd lift stuff with his arms and I'd think: what is keeping his rotator cuffs from exploding lifting that much weight? Not to mention the disks in his back and so on. The load has to go somewhere. His non-bionic joints can't take all that.

The Superman movies were always problematic as well. He would put force on stuff that can't possibly take it. Remember (in the third one that came out in '84 or whatever) where he carries that giant ice sheet as basically a cantilever? Must have had a high cracking moment.

 

[Aesur]

I knew I couldn't be the only gamer here... Check out Unreal Engine, it's used for many mainstream games now days, including architecture.

 

[AndresBM]

Hi StructuralGamer,

what do you think of doing FEA analysis and simulations for the design of gaming accessories?

Andrés

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