Minigame Competition #29, Edutainment, Go to FINAL VOTING TOPIC!

As Hatman, Winner of Competition #28, had no time to make a new competition for more than 3 days, it's now my turn as the Runner-Up to do that instead.

Congratulations to Hatman, the Winner and the others who made it to the Top Five, as well as everyone else who took part and made a good entry for the previous MGC.



Today's Subject is: Edutainment!
Explanation: Everyone knows games like "Mario Teaches Typing" or "Mario is Missing".
Educational Mario games which are intended to make fun for the player, but also teach him something. People complained about those games for having bad graphics or not being fun, but do you think you can do better?

What you have to do is the following:

Create an Educational Mario Game (Demos allowed, too, as education is always big).
Wether you have "Mario teaches Reading", "Goomba explains Math" or "Luigi and the Secret of Pythagoras", it doesn't matter. If someone has the guts, they could also do something like "Princess Daisy goes Japan".
Just keep in mind:
>It has to be FUN and TEACH SOMETHING TO SOMEBODY.<
This somebody can be between 3 and 300 years old, so you can do whatever you want, as long as it is educational.
The more education and entertainment combine (edutainment) the higher should your chance be to win, just so you know.


Rules for every Minigame Competition:
Minigame Competition - Official Rule Discussion

Rules for this Minigame Competition:
- Use any Mario Character(s) as the main char(s)
- Make at least a demo how your idea would work. (A full game would be nice, but there's a time-limit!)

- You have time until the 31st of August
- Top Five starts 1st of September
- Finals start 4th of September
- Competition ends on the 5th of September

Any questions or complaints?
Post within the first days of the competition (9th and 10th of August) to guarantee a fair competition to everyone.

This post has been edited by Guinea on Sep 4 2007, 02:08 AM

Yeah!
This is gonna be fun.
I'm entering.

I'm probably going to enter, too.

I'm going to make a quiz game (the subject is Finland) starring Chuck Quizmo.

I'm also going make a use of Mecha's sheet.

Looks like a nice pick =)
Can't wait to see what everyone brings up, as I won't enter myself due to my vacation in Holland.

Good luck everyone!

Great idea, but I can't relly make a game.

I'd like to direct you here.

would someone like to team up?

I might just enter this one, Mario has the ability to paint himself and mix colors.

This post has been edited by Elyk19 on Aug 9 2007, 01:57 PM

Nice entry, Ultra. Elyk's seems to be fun too. I'm interested how well it includes the educational part.

And, sticky pls, whoever comes along.

This post has been edited by Guinea on Aug 9 2007, 05:05 PM

I'm not sure I'll be able to think of something clever for this, but we'll see.

I'm gonna try this. I've been wanting to make an education game and I'm not sure why.

I have a plan..

It teaches really little kids colors, and which colors mix to make what colors, but as a platformer.

lofreakingl

This sounds like fun. I need to think of something. :/

I have an idea now!

I'll enter this, but I'm not even close to done yet.

EDIT: Maybe, but I've been busy lately, so I don't know if I'll get done.

This post has been edited by rabbitears on Aug 25 2007, 01:06 AM

>:] I have an idea.


I'll try my hardest to enter.

Hmm, i got an idea.

This post has been edited by Freedom Fighter on Aug 9 2007, 08:48 PM

I'll try to think of something.

This post has been edited by Giga Gamer on Aug 9 2007, 08:57 PM

Is it ok if mine is informational, yet somewhat comical?