Video games can now be found everywhere in life. Gamers report on social media how universities regularly present tasks related to games like League of Legends (LoL) or PUBG. Here you will find some examples of assignments where professors use situations from video games.
Although gaming has only become a really big industry in the entertainment business in recent years, many of us have been nurturing the gaming hobby for more than a decade.
Those who started gaming as children or teenagers in the 80s and 90s are now adults and responsible members of our society (ideally).
When such an adult responsible gamer takes it upon themselves to educate the younger generation in school or at university, funny exam questions arise.
Especially physics professors seem to have fun with the gaming tasks. Here are some exam questions with a gaming background.
When science meets gaming
What does a gaming exam question for physics look like? A fun assignment went as follows:
“In the popular video game League of Legends, the siren champion Nami has the ultimate ability to summon a tsunami wave. She does this by swinging her staff of length L with great force, creating turmoil in the water around her.
The wave propagation speed V and the pressure P that the wave exerts upon collision both depend on the following factors:
- Gravity g
- Depth of the water beneath the wave h
- And the density and surface tension of the water
Will the sprinter Usain Bolt be able to escape the wave unharmed?
Or another example:
During a PUBG match, you noticed that an opponent dove into the water under the bridge to the military base Sosnovka in the south of Pochinki. With which weapon can you eliminate the opponent the fastest with a pressure of 105 bars? An AKM or an M16A4?
The task also includes the pressure values of both weapons, their rate of fire, and other necessary information.
Gaming also represented in psychology: But even among psychology professors, there seems to be one or other passionate gamer. A thread on Reddit appeared a few days ago that depicted the task of a psychology project.
The students’ task was to focus on one of the predefined video games such as World of Warcraft, Smite, or Call of Duty over the course of the semester and interact with others in chat.
The students were to investigate player behavior psychologically and look behind the “just for fun” facade.
With a weighting of 25%, this task was relevant to the final grade of the students.
What do other gamers say about it? The reactions of gamers on Reddit and social media to these posts were almost universally positive. People found it cool that teachers and professors came up with such funny tasks. Many wished they had such professors with whom they could discuss gaming.
An American student even managed to get his teachers to write a chemistry test about Fortnite:
That’s why US students are writing a chemistry test about Fortnite
