MultiClimber

Welcome to Multi-Climber! A simple but fun way to practice basic multiplication!

Play as "Matt the Multi-Climber" and practice single timetables while scaling new heights in knowledge! See how fast and accurate you can climb the wall!

This was a fun mini game prototype I made back in 2020 during the pandemic. It was originally embedded in a custom web portal that could control and communicate with so that learner data could be collected or the application configured in specific ways by an instructor.

Some cool mechanics developed beyond networking were:

• Procedurally generated walls based on adjust times table settings
• Tracking data on your performance while climbing
• Randomization of timetables with wall generation to break a wall into 4 sections:
  • First, learning the tables and no "backwards" repeating if you make a mistake
  • Second, order of mastication gets changed and light mistakes can be made
  • Third, order of table (numerator and denominator) are swapped to remove rote memorization, more mistakes can be made as well
  • Forth, completely randomized table and mistakes as like a final quiz
• Swappable Assets:
  • Tiles to build the wall and user can be easily swapped out to build new levels or unlockable assets
  • Timed audio as your progress
  • UI effects based on performance
  • Custom rope systems to give some fun realism

I cannot remember where the music and effects came from so sorry for the lack of crediting! 

Overall it was a fun project that took around <100hrs to make. I think if there wasn't any networking systems it would be sub <60hrs.

Currently this app just has everything unlocked that was built in it.

It was (and still is) my only ever pixel art style game and first on Itch!