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KalpaWare, IncCompany profile
• Created September, 2006
• Name: Kalpa - eon, a long period of timeWare - an immaterial asset or benefit
• Team
• Pawel Czarnota
• Sunny
• Khairi Reda
• Web Presence: www.kalpaware.com
DimenxianOverview
• Title by Tabula Digital
• Released in 2006
• Available for PC and Mac
• Demo available for download
• “Learn Math or Die Trying”
• Designed to specifications required by educators
Cut scene
DimenxianOverview
• Game Focus: math
• Audience: students
• Game plot in fictional island
• Two modes: 1st person shooter, 3rd person shooter
• Shoot down bad guys while solving fairly simple math problems
• Demo features the coordinate systems and graph plotting
Cut scene
1st person shooter
DimenxianPros
• Interesting cut scene
• Good graphics
• Very good help screens
• Explains problems by solving a demo
• Informative voice instructions
DimenxianCons
• Game fairly predictable
• You can run through most of the obstacles
• It’s pretty hard to stun the bad guys!
• It’s easy to get lost on the island
• Repeats same math concepts numerous times (which might be a good thing)
Food Force Overview• Designed and produced by Deepend with game
programming by PlayerTree.
• Focus: Concentrates on the Food Distribution on a drought-War affected Island - Sheylan!
• Audience: children (version for adults under development)
• Issues addressed:- How the Food is distributed - How the Food is prepared - What are the possible obstacles involved in food distribution
• New mission pack released (competition challenge with prices): BOWL 2006http://www.food-force.com/index.php/game/competition/2006-bowl
“Earn a top-league score with the hunger-fighting team on Food Force and you’re in with a chance to win a football fan’s dream: tickets to Super Bowl XL.”
Food ForceOverview• 4 million users
worldwide!
• Available for PC and MAC
• Full version available for download
• Game Plot: 6 missions (and additional missions in BOWL 2006 pack)
• Online scoring system – compare your score with other players worldwide
Making of the game
Mission Pack
Food ForcePros
• Great graphics and sound
• Good details of the characters
• Introduction and other videos informative and stimulative
• Great introductions to characters
• Comments by characters in the game give an idea of real world problems
• Online scoring system and mission pack(s)
• Great Web site with information on making the game
• Full game available for free
Food ForceCons
• Graphics in videos get worse in the last 2 missions
• No increase in difficulty level
• Some players had problems playing the last level – need to be good at playing strategic games to pass this level
• Mission briefings are too long
• Game play feels rushed. After each mission, user has a choice of re-playing or continuing, but if nothing is clicked for 5 seconds, the game just continues with videos and next level
KalpaWareReferences
• http://www.tabuladigita.com/
• http://www.dimenxian.com/
• http://www.food-force.com
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serious_game
• http://www.seriousgames.org/index2.html
• http://www.usatoday.com/tech/gaming/2006-05-19-serious-games_x.htm