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A jam submission

RoboKidView game page

Join RoboKid as he teaches you some of the basics of computers.
Submitted by DigiTaliTan (@DigiTaliTan), BrianCurrie — 3 hours, 50 minutes before the deadline
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Results

CriteriaRankScore*Raw Score
Creativity/Originality#64.1254.125
Visuals and Audio#74.2504.250
Theme#124.0004.000
Overall#133.5753.575
Fun#202.5002.500
Educational Value#213.0003.000

Ranked from 8 ratings. Score is adjusted from raw score by the median number of ratings per game in the jam.

Judge feedback

Judge feedback is anonymous and shown in a random order.

  • Original idea and great execution, reminded me of old school educational games. Wonderful aesthetically.
  • very solid entry! Wish that the binary stuff did a liiiiitle more _teaching_ about how the system works. I already knew so was able to get by easily enough, but most kiddos are just going to be guessing and clicking around until they get it right.
  • Good idea, but it was really just CS50 with some toys. I'd like to see more attention paid to the game aspect.

Github Link
https://github.com/BrianCurrie/top-gamejam

Target Age
8-12

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Comments

Submitted(+2)

Love the UI! I was amazed by the terminal. How did you do it?

Developer

Glad you liked it! The terminal widget is basically a file structure represented using nested objects and an input field who's input is used to navigate this structure.  You can check out what the widget looked like before I integrated it into the game here. The linked version has more commands such as mkdir, rmdir, touch, rm, but I decided to trim it down for the final game version.

Submitted(+2)

I totally love the art style. The binary exercise was my favorite! :)

Developer

Thanks! I wanted the art to be appealing to the kids that would play it, with a retro pixelated aesthetic to match with the subject. I wanted robokid to look like a character a kid would become friends with! Glad you liked the binary exercise, it's one of my favorites too.

Submitted(+2)

Wow. Very well done. Very Very cool! Everything is perfect! I like the terminal idea. Overall a great learning experience.

Developer

Thank you so much for such high praise!! We really, really appreciate the kind words :)

Submitted(+2)

this is super cool!! well done , congrats :)

Developer(+1)

Thank you so much!

Submitted(+2)

This is really cool! I really like the binary lessons. You don't see things like that around enough.

Developer(+1)

Thanks! We wanted to cover a variety of computing topics in our game (some reluctantly scrapped) in ways a kid could hopefully understand and have fun playing around with (even if they didnt understand!).

Submitted(+2)

This is incredible! Simulating the command line blew my mind.

Submitted(+2)

This is so rad!

Developer

Thank you!! Glad you liked it :)

Submitted(+3)

~/Pictures/PicturesOfFriends being an empty directory hits too close to home