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Explorers of the Horizon

Brief.
Hello Everyone. Since February 2008 I have been working on new learning experience for kids. Project codename: EXPLORERS OF THE HORIZON. Since then my game went through many changes and I had to limited some of the undesirable functionality that would be considerably time consuming and would not enhance learning experience in any significant way. At this point Explorers of the Horizon is in beta testing stage and at present time build / version name is BETA6(Release candidate) As there are still some database functionality missing, nevertheless the gameplay has now been finalized and it is being tested by kids and my friends and family. To quickly refresh memory about this project, Explorers of the Horizon is a flash based game designated for kids in age group between 11 and 14 years old. Main purpose of the game is fact that by explorations and fun gaming experience, kids gets to know certain aspects of geography KS3. Following screenshots well shortly recap some aspects of game play and in-game stages. Currently help section or tutorials, for new users, has not yet been completed therefore element of exploration starts from very begging of the game.

Technical Specs:
Created in Flash CS3 AS3 - Whole game, that contains fifteen mini games plus main game play and Captain quiz section. Whole project counts around 7000 line of optimized AS3 code (what roughly makes around 20,000 words written :) Utterly unexpected, nonetheless I very much enjoy this projects as it looks great and first feedbacks about the game play are positive.

Major defects to fix:
Performance!

Expected time to release / publish: Summer 2008

Screenshots

1. Main gameplay – East Sea stage. Begging of the game. The user is asked to sail with the ship to any of the island in order to initiate exploration. On graphical user interface user can track current Sea rank, Remaining time to the next Captain quiz, as well as items that have been acquired.


2. As mentioned above crucial stage of the game play is the CAPTAIN QUIZ. After first two minutes and then every one minute Captain Quiz activates. (user allowed to skip it) If user acquired any item from island, quiz system will automatically recognize this item and assign question "from captain" to user in order to check his knowledge.


3. One of the most important features of the Explorers of the Horizon is fact that the user can select his own path of learning. When the user’s ship docks near island, Character Bar is displayed, allowing user to select one character from three available. By selecting Writer user will face task more related to writing or crosswords, when cartographer is selected user can expect more logical tasks. By selecting Ratboy user will be given mini game quest when often by navigating character user has to complete given quest.

EOH experience can be very subjective, therefore I would like to ask everyone for Beta testing contributions towards EOH. By selecting following link: http://rapidshare.de/files/39552587/userExplorerBeta6.zip.html Explorers of the Horizon(OFFLINE VERSION) can be download to your computer. Please uncompress the files and ensure that the folder structure will remain same as in compressed file. After the experience is completed please don't forget to leave me some comments or suggestions.

[PS. due to offline limitation of Adobe Flash Player 9, you will be presented with actionscript error during the game play please press Continue when error is displayed to proceed and enjoy EOH word.]