Backyard Engineers: status, maker and key facts on file

Players design a catapult to launch water balloons at neighbors who bully them. Each part costs design points and energy, so the best result clears a level with the fewest balloons and the most energy left. Gear ratios, arm lengths and materials can be adjusted with a mostly visual interface, which postpones the math. It ships with a standards-based curriculum and a teacher dashboard, and a Wisconsin seventh-grade class used it.

Backyard Engineers is a game by Filament Games. Backyard Engineers is filed under Science, sector Education. Platform on file: Online. No cost is on file for Backyard Engineers. The address on file for Backyard Engineers no longer loaded in November 2026.

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