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This Slay the Spire-like made to teach a dev’s daughter maths looks like the best edutainment game I never hadFrom the folks behind chess roguelike Shotgun King
From the folks behind chess roguelike Shotgun King
Image credit:Punkcake Délicieux
Image credit:Punkcake Délicieux
If you’re like me, you probably have at least one treasured memory of being allowed to play an edutainment game at school under the guise of learning. What a blast, getting to play video games at school! For me, it was a floppy disk with a bizarrePac-Manclone where you had to answer maths questions every time you ran into an enemy or obstacle. I’m sure for others it might be unforgiving classic Oregon Trail or globetrotting trivia quiz Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
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While I treasure that memory dearly, I knew even then that the game I was playing was more than a bit crap - no matter how good it made me at sums or let me get out of doing normal schoolwork. If only the next game fromchess-roguelike Shotgun Kingdevelopers Punkcake Délicieux had existed at the time, offering up a modern bit of edutainment that looks to be both educational and genuinely fun to play.
The game is yet to have a name officially revealed, though in-game cards visible in a GIF shared to X suggest it might be called Algebrawl, which is a pretty top-notch pun if so. (Update:Punkcake Délicieux has revealed that the game is calledSuper Algebrawl, witha Steam page now live.)
Even from the short GIF, it’s easy to see the appeal. The clip’s adorable pixel art shows a sword-wielding boar creature in a crown and robe - presumably the player - leading a group of small mice and boar followers into battle against a group of slime and goblin-like creatures, much like an encounter inSlay the Spire.
In November I made a game to train my 7yo daughter in doing additions and multiplications. I finally decided to make it a full punkcake, and the result is very interesting. It’s almost finished now and we will release it soon.#gamedev#pixelart#indiedevStay tuned !pic.twitter.com/HOCY0ODmMO— Benjamin Soule (@benjamin_soule_)January 7, 2024
In November I made a game to train my 7yo daughter in doing additions and multiplications. I finally decided to make it a full punkcake, and the result is very interesting. It’s almost finished now and we will release it soon.#gamedev#pixelart#indiedevStay tuned !pic.twitter.com/HOCY0ODmMO
It genuinely looks like a great game, that just happens to boost your arithmetic ability along the way. Luckily for us, Soule’s decision to make it into a full release means we’ll all be able to practise our sums soon, with the game said to be nearly finished and planned for release via Steam and Itch.io “soon”.
