Today is November 22, 2024.

Latest update: November 22, 2024.

News Feed

This spot is dedicated to larger news announcements regarding the project.

→ 01.06.10 - User testing day! We held a preliminary user trial to work out game play elements at a school district in New Jersey. The game was played by fifth grade students, who provided us with constructive feedback. Pictures of the students playing will be posted shortly...

→ 01.01.10 - Happy New Year!!

→ 12.16.09 - Rearranged the wiki into sections and added navigation at the top of the page.

→ 12.07.09 - Created a working XO activity file. File can be found here

→ 12.04.09 - Watch game demos on our youtube channel

→ 11.12.09 - MPG has become Mathematical Adventure: Fortune Hunter (MAFH)! This name change is permanent.

→ 11.12.09 - Fortune Hunter now has a blog!

→ 11.12.09 - Join the Fortune Hunter mailing list via Google Groups and stay up to date with our progress and news info!

→ 09.22.09 - Current GIT repository can be found here.

Navigation / Important Links

Sugarlabs Git Repository - Project XAVIER

Fortune Hunter Blog

Fortune Hunter Mailing List

IRC Channel (#MAFH)

Introduction

Mathematical Adventure: Fortune Hunter draws on teaching children of a global scale fourth grade mathematics through the guise of a dungeon styled adventure game. Players will be able to explore dungeons and fight fearsome battles with various monsters, each pertaining to a unique mathematical concept. The player controls a protagonist that must progress through maze-like dungeons, solve puzzles / problems, and defeat enemies in a two dimensional world. It is a single player adventure with room for ad hoc cooperative play in the future.

MAFH follows the story of Arith, a determined young researcher dedicated to finding all of the world’s best hidden secrets. One day she stumbled across a piece of blank papyrus during the time she spent studying in Egypt on a dig site. She quickly brought it to her best friend and colleague, Lytic. They were determined to find out more about this strange paper, but the two could not unearth its secrets in such a short time. To them, it was just a blank piece of ancient material.

Two months later, the dig ever deeper into the earth, Arith noticed a faint glow emanating from a random pile of dirt. “What’s that over there?” she asked Lytic, who was standing nearby with his shovel. Digging it out, Lytic noticed that it was a small amulet. It let off the strangest beautiful teal glow. “Strange,” he remarked. Lytic stared deep into the light, his eyes widening as if in a trance. "Just what are you?" he questioned. The glow got even brighter and then went dim again. Now the amulet appeared to be as plain as any other stone. Confused, the two left the site to turn in for the night.

Upon bringing this find to back to their living quarters, Lytic tossed it lightly on the table. It landed near the old blank papyrus that she had found months earlier. The amulet began to glow again. This time, the papyrus wasn't blank. The light seemed to be the key and filled the papyrus with teal characters and symbols. The two stared amazed at the sight. Nothing made sense. It was no language they’d ever come across before. Upon closer inspection, only one thing was certain. The image of a giant pile of treasure, larger than anything you could imagine. The other familiar image was of a human mind with mathematical symbols surrounding it. Apparently, those who desired this treasure must be intelligent and versed in the ways of mathematics. There was one other hint on the old Egyptian paper. It was extremely cold to the touch. The two agreed this meant it must be somewhere on Earth in a very cold place. At last, a massive treasure hunt was underway.

Four days later, Arith and Lytic, found themselves in a strange place face to face with a mysterious and ancient building, relics in hand. “You wait here. I’ll go take a look around,” Arith told Lytic. “Okay. Good luck.”

Arith entered the chilly, dark structure alone; unaware of what lay in wait…

Objectives

The objective of this project is to reiterate teachings of fourth grade mathematics to students in a fun and unique way, primarily through the use of creative interactive software. The project is intended to be used as supplemental material to classroom education. See Curriculum Elements for incorporated curriculum topics and Lesson Plan for a lesson plan to use in the classroom.

Terminology

There are many vocabulary terms used in this wiki and the game. They are listed here for clarification and understanding.

• Accessory:

• Akhal: The in-game currency units.

• Amulet Search:

• Armor:

• Attack: What the player uses to deal damage to enemies.

• Attack Power:

• Basic Attack: A very basic attack that deals a minimal amount of damage to enemies and is ineffective to most.

• Bonus Power:

• Boss: This is a rather powerful enemy which requires completion of specialized problems found within the dungeon.

• Combat:

• Combat Timer: This bar is found within battles and is a bonus effect timer for your current attack. It starts out full and slowly diminishes, decreasing the bonus effect over time.

• Critical Attack: An effective attack that gives the player the chance to deal additional damage to enemies providing the player solves a multiplication problem.

• Cutscene:

• Damage / dmg: The amount of health points lost during a successful attack.

• Defense Power:

• Dungeon: A map in the game consisting of multiple rooms where the player must progress to gain entry to the exit.

• Enemy: A hostile opponent faced in the game.

• Equipment:

• FMC (Full Motion Comic):

• FMV (Full Motion Video):

• GB Mode: Setup the XO monitor so it is raised and rotated 180* and fold it back down into the XO. Use the directional pad and four buttons located on either side of the monitor for game input.

• Health Meter:

• HP: Health points. The player’s game is over when their health points reach zero.

• HUD (Heads Up Display):

• Inventory:

• Item:

• Key Item:

• Macro Map:

• Magic Attack: This type of attack requires the player to solve geometry and graphing related problems.

• Mini Map:

• PC Mode: Setup the XO monitor so it is open, with the keyboard to its front. Use the keyboard and touchpad for game input.

• Shop: In-game shop. The player can travel to the shop to purchase or sell items or equipment.

• Special Attack: This type of attack requires the player to solve fraction related problems.

• Weapon: