INTRODUCTION
Dinosaur Math is a children's fun math learning game.
Question. Why are math games usually boring?
Question. Why don't exciting action games, the type children like playing have any educational value?
This math game aims to cross these boundaries, as a 3rd person action adventure game which also required the answering of math questions.
THE MATH
Times tables: up to 100 X 100
Addition: up to 100000 +100000
Subtraction: up to 100000 -100000
This is totally configurable. you can do any, or all sum types to different degrees of hardness.
You can even just do one times table, if you want to practice it for a test at school.
Use the options menu to configure which math you want to practice.
THE GAME
Having left her home city, Rome, for a worldwide sailing adventure, Mia Maximo found herself washed up after a storm on an unknown and unmapped island. Quickly she has to learn what this island is, and how to escape it.
Benevolent aliens have been watching Earth since the dawn of time. 66 million years ago, aware of the impending astroid impact which would end dinosaur life they rescued as many as they could and gave them sanctuary on distant planets, then later, reintroduced them to the Earth. Hidden in the Bermuda triangle, nobody knew about this island, until Mia stumbled upon it.
Discovering an interesting domed building she dives inside and looks around, where upon she is met by a robot, the guardian of the island. Numbers appear on a display screen. What does it mean, she wonders, it looks like a multiplication sum. She leaves the building to hunt for numbers to answer this sum in the landscape.
She quickly works out that if she gets the sum correct it could offer her escape from the island, but when she gets them wrong things get increasingly more dangerous - dinosaurs are hungry animals!
THE LEVELS
When Mia does eventually manage to outwit the hungry dinosaurs and leave this island in a flying saucer , will it take her back home to Rome or on to other adventures, an alien mother-ship or a secret alien base on Mars, you can decide.
GAME CONFIGURATION
No nasty dinosaurs at all, several hungry dinosaurs, fast dinosaurs or slow ones, dinosaurs appearing at timed intervals, dinosaurs appearing automatically at the start of the game or only when you get sums wrong.
Slow or fast number cubes, number of questions required to fuel the spaceship.
These preferences are all configurable in the options panel so Children can configure this game as they please simply to have fun.
SCORING
There are no points or scores in this game, no ways for children to compare their maths skills or abilities with their class-mates. This game is not a test and irrespective of whether you are good at your sums or not, you can just have fun.
THE CHARACTERS
You - YProsperity Fortune Treeou can choose one of 1 of 4 characters to be in the game, 2 boys and 2 girls.
The Robot - The guardian if the island who looks after the dinosaurs and gives you math questions.
The Dinosaurs - The Goodies, Triceratops, Brontosaurus and Parasaurolophus
The Baddies, Tyrannosaurs Rex
WHAT TO DO
1) Find the control room, the robot will give to a sum to do.
2) Find the correct number-cubes floating in the landscape, pick them up and carry them back to the control room.
3) Place the number-cubes on the spinny-things in the control room to answer the sum.
4) Stand on the enter pad, (the round pad in the middle of the control room).
5) Answer as many questions as required to fuel the spaceship.
6) When the spaceship is fully fuelled stand in it's tractor beam.
7) Also try not to get eaten by a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.
