The Number Adventures of Oscar

The Number Adventures of Oscar is an educational game for negative numbers and fractions. It was made for children in between the second and fifth grade. Although the game gives kids the same kind of exercise they would find in school, it brings a bright, colored and animated environment to study while playing. The game shows random exercises in 4 different modes, two specifically for learning (using illustrations and diagrams to facilitate comprehension), and two for training with easy simple equations. The player will have always 3 possible choices and only one is correct and Oscar will react happily or sadly to a correct or incorrect answer.

PARENTS and USERS: If you or your child find this game difficult to play you should know we have launched also "The Math Adventures of Oscar" whose purpose is to familiarize the player into playing with numbers and very simple equations (and less numbers appear on screen).

A) DETAILED DESCRIPTION:

The game has 4 different modes. Two for learning, two for training. Generally speaking we do advise players to go to the training modes once it become easy to solve the exercises in the first learning modes. The description for the modes is the following:

Mode "Negative Numbers": A simple equation will appear whose result is always a negative number. A diagram will also appear giving the player a guide to solve the equation by visual methods. From there the player should chose the right choice from the three buttons at the bottom.

Mode "Fraction Numbers": A simple fraction will appear. A diagram will also appear giving the player a guide to solve the fraction by visual methods (check the screenshots to see what kind of diagram we found more suited for the game). From there the player should chose the right choice from the three buttons at the bottom.

Mode "Simple Equations": Here we will see the user prompted with repeating simple equations (including subtractions but never fractions). Once the equation is presented the payer should chose the correct answer.

Mode "Negative Equations": The user will be prompted to solve equations with fractions (but not with negative numbers) and the purpose is to obtain the result in its decimal format. Once the equation is presented the payer should chose the correct answer.

B) PURPOSE AND FUTURE WORKS

We're hoping to develop a long series of "The Adventures of Oscar" educational games. If you have suggestions for learning exercises or relevant information towards the educational needs of your child please tell us about it. Maybe we can find better solutions for our future educational games.

If you see that something is lacking from this description please send us an email. We prize clear information for our customers.

C) TECHNICAL INFORMATION

This game was built with Ren'py game engine:

Renpy contains free software licensed under a number of licenses, including the GNU Lesser General Public License. A complete list of software is available at:
http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/license.html.

The music is by Kevin MacLeod:

"Rock on Chicago" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Art and code by "anteia".