Madness Mathematica

by jusw85
Overall★★★★★★★★★★3.06
Fun★★★★★★★★★★3.17
Innovation★★★★★★★★★★3.33
Humor★★★★★★★★★★2.82
Coolness★★★★★★★★★★64%
A weird pseudo educational fantasy math game...??? *headscratch*

Arrow keys to move

Down to drop through platforms

Up / Space to jump

Number keys (1-4) to select your answer

Made using Gamemaker and Bfxr

Music from Incompetech

Batty McFaddin Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

Creator's note: I certainly didn't intend the game to turn out this way, it wasn't even supposed to resemble anything mathsy or educational... but it just kinda did, because of my zero artistic ability and time and resource constraints. So if you find yourself having some kind of sadistic perverse fun with my weird creation, let me know in the comments :)

Comments17

kd7uiy
kd7uiy12 Dec 2016, 19:10
Good enough, but it's really hard to do math problems that fast, even for a person as good at mental math as I am. Still, it works well enough I suppose.
ccglp
ccglp12 Dec 2016, 19:47
Can work as an educaative game for children to get quickness with math.
dlweatherhead12 Dec 2016, 19:54
Nice education style game. Some UI changes and tweaking to the difficulty curve are needed though.

The sense of urgency was done well.
JesseyCool12 Dec 2016, 20:48
All right game. Funny qwestion. It in not my type of game.
gene-z12 Dec 2016, 20:52
Nice work, idea works well
gdcvdqpl12 Dec 2016, 21:09
You should have added Sound to the list of things to Rate, I love how the music speeds up and the sounds effects are nice too.

Excellent mood also, but I can't rate that either :(

That was really fun
mrwillowb13 Dec 2016, 05:00
not bad, not great.
iamkraya13 Dec 2016, 13:06
Was fun once I realised what the game rules were. I did find myself ignoring most of the text and scanning for the numbers and keywords like "sells" or "finds".

Stuck to the theme well and was good fun once it got going.
Drkr13 Dec 2016, 13:19
If my maths exams had screenshake too I probably wouldn't survived long either.
oskardevelopment13 Dec 2016, 18:14
Great game! Was a bit surprised with the shake effects, made a great mood! Could've been cool with some multiplication, divisions and so on. Took some seconds before I learned how it worked, so lost a bit of time there the first round!
stupidmindlessf
stupidmindlessf15 Dec 2016, 20:12
Nice one. I actually enjoy these kind of math questions, so yes I had some fun with it. It would have been even better, if there was any connection between the platforming and the math questions. At the moment they are very disconnected.

Still a fun first entry. Keep it up!
Kevin_B18 Dec 2016, 12:23
Ehi! it's funny! Nice work with the music!
Ednei
Ednei18 Dec 2016, 18:49
nice work!!
emmelineprufrock
emmelineprufrock18 Dec 2016, 19:02
Took me back to elementary school math. It's odd, because I feel like if it were just the math problems I would've been fine but making them word problems added that extra level of difficulty. I think adding a more clear sign of why things were getting rough would really take it to the next level, though I do like it now. Very interesting idea.
eemmbbeerr
eemmbbeerr27 Dec 2016, 12:48
Exceptional! It really could work as an educational game, do try to develop it further!
MementoGames
MementoGames27 Dec 2016, 20:57
I really liked the lore behind the math problems! The music really gave the sense of urgency. Well done!

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