Description

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 likeplaying have any educational value?

This math game aims to cross these boundaries, as a 3rd personaction adventure game which also required the answering of mathquestions.

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 typesto different degrees of hardness.
You can even just do one times table, if you want to practice itfor a test at school.
Use the options menu to configure which math you want topractice.

THE GAME

Having left her home city, Rome, for a worldwide sailingadventure, Mia Maximo found herself washed up after a storm on anunknown and unmapped island. Quickly she has to learn what thisisland is, and how to escape it.

Benevolent aliens have been watching Earth since the dawn oftime. 66 million years ago, aware of the impending astroid impactwhich would end dinosaur life they rescued as many as they couldand 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 andlooks around, where upon she is met by a robot, the guardian of theisland. Numbers appear on a display screen. What does it mean, shewonders, it looks like a multiplication sum. She leaves thebuilding to hunt for numbers to answer this sum in thelandscape.

She quickly works out that if she gets the sum correct it couldoffer her escape from the island, but when she gets them wrongthings get increasingly more dangerous - dinosaurs are hungryanimals!

THE LEVELS

When Mia does eventually manage to outwit the hungry dinosaursand leave this island in a flying saucer , will it take her backhome to Rome or on to other adventures, an alien mother-ship or asecret alien base on Mars, you can decide.

GAME CONFIGURATION

No nasty dinosaurs at all, several hungry dinosaurs, fastdinosaurs or slow ones, dinosaurs appearing at timed intervals,dinosaurs appearing automatically at the start of the game or onlywhen you get sums wrong.
Slow or fast number cubes, number of questions required to fuel thespaceship.
These preferences are all configurable in the options panel soChildren can configure this game as they please simply to havefun.

SCORING

There are no points or scores in this game, no ways for childrento compare their maths skills or abilities with their class-mates.This game is not a test and irrespective of whether you are good atyour sums or not, you can just have fun.

THE CHARACTERS

You - You 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 thedinosaurs and gives you math questions.
The Dinosaurs - The Goodies, Triceratops, Brontosaurus andParasaurolophus
The Baddies, Tyrannosaurs Rex

WHAT TO DO

1) Find the control room, the robot will give to a sum todo.
2) Find the correct number-cubes floating in the landscape, pickthem up and carry them back to the control room.
3) Place the number-cubes on the spinny-things in the control roomto answer the sum.
4) Stand on the enter pad, (the round pad in the middle of thecontrol room).
5) Answer as many questions as required to fuel thespaceship.
6) When the spaceship is fully fuelled stand in it's tractorbeam.
7) Also try not to get eaten by a hungry Tyrannosaurus Rex.