ASTEROIDS : THE PHRASAL VOID

The first Asteroid game is up : HERE

This is the Q&A version of the Asteroid app (the blue box version)
The FlashCard version which uses a simpler word pairing system where you simply type an answer will be up next week. With this second version just about anything that works on FlashCards can be added with speed. For example : Capitals of the World, Morse Code, Flags, Kanji, Foreign words etc...

Next weeks version called BACKWORDS will vastly improve words pattern recognition, spelling and typing speed. It is a remake of a game from 2001 which became one of the more addictive and highly played games I have made.


Phrasal verbs:

The questions are based on the curriculum and do not go beyond it.
The game contains around 1500+ questions over 7 weeks. Each week (or rank) has 5 phases:

• Choose the correct phrasal verb for the blank
• Select the correct meaning
• Select the correct tense to fill in the blank
• Separable or not?
• A selection of all the above with emphasis on any questions that were troublesome


Tactical Revision:

The game is designed to take the edge off revision but even though it is heavily disguised they still answer one question every 10-20 seconds.
If a student doesn't know the answer to a particular question (attached to an asteroid) they can use a number of tactical methods to destroy it. The answer will appear and the asteroid will come back a number of times later. Therefore, every question must be answered correctly before ranking up.
There is no judgement in the game. The students can even change the speed of the asteroids if they find the initial settings a little difficult.


Under the hood:

A number of new methods were used to create the questions and read human documents and can be reused for future subjects. Even with all the questions, graphics and sound the entire game is under 20 megabytes online. Almost half of this is standard plugin stuff so if you've played any game on the site before then the download is closer to 12 megabytes.

The questions were generated by the new system but were checked by real human people.
Only small changes were required but still a little time consuming.

Some screen shots: