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Thank you very much.

Ok, so you tend to the each-room version.
The game should look and feel like a classical adventure game. Can't upload images, otherwise I'd have shown you a little picture of what it looks like at the moment.

Hi,

I'm writing a little game so my pupils can only win, if they do some tests inside the game right.
Something like:

v=s/T

Q=c * m * delta T

Ok.
Now I think hard coding this inside the game is pretty odd, because if one pupil has got the right answer, of course the answer would be shared.
So, I'm thinking of using random numbers for the different questions:
m could e.g. be anything from 5-15, delta T anything from e.g. 17 to 34..., c is constant though.

Now my question:
Is it better to make one room (after starting screen e.g.) and put all those random calculations inside this one room (so they are all handy in one place) and define the data as global variables, or should this be done when necessary in the respective rooms?

Pro one room:
Values for one game stay the same (don't know if this it pro?)
Everything in one place
Better to mange all different questions / values and formulas

Contra:
Lots of global variables needed
How to deal with things like m (weight), if it is used with different values for different questions? (the player should get the right value for having a chance...)


Oh, my idea was to give a input box and compare the entered value with the right one. Any better ways of doing this?


Thank you in advance

Zauberlehrling

You're right
In Germany "serious games" is a buzzword for educational games. At least, at the moment.

Hi Forum,

my nick in English is sorcerer's apprentice (more or less)

I've never made computer games, but in the 80's I've loved Sierra's adventures. Larry, Kings Quest, Police Quest, Space Quest, you name it. I had them all on my Schneider Euro PC. 9,54MHz, CGA...
(at this time 5 1/4 and 3 1/2" disks were in the boxes, so one could buy 1 game and sell the other disks to a friend without piracy )

OK,
times are changing.
Anyway, today I'm a 40 year old teacher, father of three doughters and I'm wondering if it would be possible for me to make a "serious game" (I dislike this expression) for my pupils.

Perhaps I will make up an extra thread for this. I need ideas for puzzles, how to integrate all the stuff into a story and so on.


Today I've got my first supporter charakter walking
(at least left and right)