I just uploaded an educational game to YoYoGames called Math Areas and Volumes . The game was made using GameMaker and the original purpose for it was to help my eight grade student to improve their skills of finding the area and volume of objects. If you have ever taught children about areas and volumes, you probably will notice that some of them confused the two concepts. The game uses plain graphics to help students distinguish the difference between the area and volume concepts. A 2D square with little squares filling it, represent a square unit. A 3D cube with little cubes on it represents the cubic units. You would need to play it to completely get the idea of what I was trying to do to help the students. Something else worth noting is that I used some of the excellent graphics that came with my Multimedia Fusion. I already asked in the forum, and the official response was that I could use the graphics as long as distributed the game only as an “.exe”. Thank you Clickteam!
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