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Online physics-based games
Physics-based games are designed to mimic the basic laws of physics. Unlike many popular games that do not specifically follow natural law, most physics-based games are designed around Newton’s Laws of Motion:
- If an object is not moving, it won’t start moving unless something else moves it. If an object is moving, it will continue to move unless something else stops it.
- The amount of force required to move an object is equal to the mass of the object times the acceleration.
- If something pushes on an object (an action), the object will push back (a reaction).
A physics-based game takes these laws and their applications into account. Games in this category are typically not as graphic-intensive as their main-stream counterparts, but they have made great strides in sophistication over the last ten years.
