''Questionaut'' is a short educational video game developed by
Amanita Design
Amanita Design is a Czech independent video game developing company founded in 2003 by Jakub Dvorský and headquartered in Brno, Czech Republic. The company has created award-winning games including ''Machinarium'', the ''Samorost'' series and ...
for the
BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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. It's a
point-and-click adventure game
An adventure game is a video game genre in which the player assumes the role of a protagonist in an interactive story driven by exploration and/or puzzle-solving. The genre's focus on story allows it to draw heavily from other narrative-based m ...
meant for
English speaking
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the i ...
children of school age. It is supposed to exercise their knowledge in English,
mathematics and
natural science.
Gameplay
Players control an
aeronaut
Aeronautics is the science or art involved with the study, design, and manufacturing of air flight–capable machines, and the techniques of operating aircraft and rockets within the atmosphere. The British Royal Aeronautical Society identifies ...
who tries to get with his
balloon
A balloon is a flexible bag that can be inflated with a gas, such as helium, hydrogen, nitrous oxide, oxygen, and air. For special tasks, balloons can be filled with smoke, liquid water, granular media (e.g. sand, flour or rice), or li ...
as high as possible to get a hat which belongs to his friend
Vodník. But the balloon loses its air and the aeronaut has to land on
levitating planet
A planet is a large, rounded astronomical body that is neither a star nor its remnant. The best available theory of planet formation is the nebular hypothesis, which posits that an interstellar cloud collapses out of a nebula to create a ...
s. There are creatures on these planets who are specialized in some way (
English language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to t ...
,
mathematics,
chemistry, etc.). The player has to solve a simple problem and then answer questions from the subject in which is the creature living on the planet specialized. Each of these questions have three possibilities. When the player chooses the right answer, the balloon gets some air but if he chooses wrong the balloon loses its air. When the player gets enough air, the balloon gets him to a higher planet.
Development
Amanita Design developed ''Questionaut'' on BBC's commission. Amanita Design received questions that were to be included in the game and requested for it to be set in different environments, but the developers otherwise had creative freedom.
References
External links
Game pageat Amanita Design website
Play ''Questionaut''at Amanita Design website
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