AMACE

The Project

A dungeon math trivia game based on the AMC competition with the main goal to help competitors get ready for the competition by practicing while having fun. In the game, the player is trying to escape from a dungeon by answering questions inside the different challenging dungeon rooms. Each dungeon room has one question and five different exits representing five different answers. The player needs to choose the correct answer before time run out, if the player chooses the wrong exit, they will fall to their death and the solution of the correct answer are shown on the screen. The player has multiple lives and each time they die costs them one life to respawn. The goal of the player is to answer all the questions before running out of lives and escaping the dungeon.

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Team Comments

This is a a practice method of combining gaming and math solving, a game with the whole system based on math solving. I choose games rather than question generating programs because the main point of this solution is to use games as a tool to keep users stay focused when answering.

Since the goal of this game is to help students practice for Olympiad Math Competitions like the AMC, the questions need to be challenging and the database needs to contain enough questions for users to play multiple times. This is the reason why all the math questions come from past AMC exams

There are several limitations in the game, repeated game scenes and experience and the question generator. To optimize the game experience, more different art design of the room and the special events need to be added into the game.