Produce Puzzle

Description

Produce Puzzle is a game that had already been developed. It seems to have fallen by the wayside and we'd love to get it out there again. The idea of Produce Puzzle is that it spawns fruits, each with their own value. It arranges them in a grid with the totals for the rows and columns given to you. You have to figure out the values of each individual fruits. This game could teach some basic algebra, and we are trying to scale it so that it can teach algebra with varying degrees of difficulty.

milestone, timeline

Standards

Possibly fulfills standards:

4.P.3 (Determine values of variables in simple equations, e.g., 4106 – x = 37, 5 = y + 3, and s – y = 3.)
4.P.6 (Determine how change in one variable relates to a change in a second variable, e.g., input-output tables.)
4.G.3 (Recognize similar figures.)

Group Members

Goals

By 4/31/09:

Sugar toolbar at the top (Abbi)
Work on ending animation (Kennedy)

By 5/08/09:

Fix bundling compatability issues

By 5/16/09:

Add to Git repo

Compatability Issues

Needs a new Sugarized icon
Needs the Sugar toolbar at the top
Needs to be changed from HelloWorld.activity to ProducePuzzle.activity
Bundling needs to be compatible with new Sugar build
Doesn't like to resume after "minimizing"
- No icon on the top of Sugar window with other running programs
Needs to be added to Git repo

Playability Issues

More dynamic ending
- No visual notification user wins the game (fireworks, something exciting)
- Should move on to new game automatically
More scalable
- Ability to change fruit max values on the fly
- Ability to have some fruit values solved for them
Does not spawn all fruits all the time

Wishlist

Timer
- See how long they've played
- Race against clock mode
Fill more of screen
- Scales itself similarly to how the maze game does
New fruit icons

Completed Goals

Ability to toggle game music (4/17/09)

Resources

Wade

Links

This will eventually be a link to our Git repo

Contact Information

Abbi Honeycutt's user page
Kennedy Kong's user page