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[Retro3000]

Hello all,

I've majorly updated a couple of long-standing math games in the Sandbox:

Math Quest 1.3:

http://sandbox.yoyog...7496-math-quest

This version includes streamlined controls and graphics, an improved menu system and printable instructions.


Space Simulator 2.0:

http://sandbox.yoyog...space-simulator

This version includes images from NASA (which are in the public domain), improved mini-maps, detailed notes, orbital paths and a printable mathematics activity supplement.


Let me know what you think!

[chance]

Downloaded and tried both games. You've put the free version of GameMaker to great use. So +1 for that straightaway.

The space sim game was fun and could be educational if players bother to read the note sheets. That's always a challenge for educational games. Beyond that, you could improve the rocket graphics and make a better simulation of the exhaust. (Of course, if you purchased GM:Standard, you'd have particle effects -- and those work great for things like smoke and exhaust. )

But the game is still pretty good.

*****

I wasn't as impressed with the math game -- although I didn't spend that much time with it. The mechanical "adding machine" made me chuckle though. Not sure how many people today would recognize one of those.

And the questions seemed a bit too simple, even for young children. But maybe I just didn't play long enough.

[Retro3000]

Thanks for the positive feedback!

As for the comments on the Space Simulator:

There is a printable mathematics activity bundled with the game. My idea was that teachers could use it to supplement the game.

And on the comments about Math Quest:

The questions do get more difficult, progressing from simple addition to longer addition problems (i.e. 35+48), subtraction and longer subtraction problems (i.e. 73-29), multiplication and longer multiplication, division and longer division, integer operations, solving one-step equations (i.e. x+3=12 or -5x=35) and solving proportions (i.e. 3/12 = x/20).

There is also a bit of a story uncovered by checking messages on computers stationed throughout the game.

Thanks again!

[Retro3000]

Good news! Space Simulator is now featured on Cryset Games:

http://cryset.com/ga...-Simulator-2.0/

Check it out!

Edited by Retro3000, 08 July 2012 - 04:11 AM.

[Retro3000]

Check out Math Quest and Space Simulator on Math and Games:

http://mathandgamesonline.appspot.com

You can also find educational resources on game design and mathematics.

Edited by Retro3000, 29 July 2012 - 05:03 PM.