Tūkstantukas (2009)
Final bachelor degree project - Adobe Flash games set
In the year 2009, Lithuania celebrated the millennium anniversary of it’s name. Main idea was to prepare a set of games for schoolchildren on the occasion of this celebration, that represents Lithuania and the Lithuanian people, their traditions.
On this project – games set “Tūkstantukas” (Millennium), I have worked 3 months during my internship at a company MultimediaMark. Later, I presented it successfully as my final bachelor project’s task at the university. I was responsible for project realization from it’s programming side. I have created 16 different games together with an initial version of the managing system that controls them all and gives the ability to send user’s collected points to a common database where user is ranked accordingly. The project was developed in collaboration with design team and presented for the users as one separate website. For games production, I have used a popular online games creation technology – Adobe Flash. At that moment, Flash platform was a leading solution for building rich internet applications. For my work, I have used Macromedia Flash 8, Adobe Flash CS3 software and a programming language ActionScript 2.
You are welcome to try final version of the project online, otherwise just read short descriptions and take a look at screenshots taken during the development stage of these 16 different games which I have programmed myself.
Skills developed
- ActionScript 2.0, Adobe Flash,
- PHP, MySQL, Games,
- Project Management
Geography
For the game is created special room atmosphere inspired by the genuine ancient traveler, where questions are presented on the globe and parchment leaf. The game consists of 10 stages. At each stage, two questions are asked. After receiving the first question, the player must choose one of the three answers, which is deservedly called the Lithuanian geographic record. The right choice gives you points and knowledge. Then, by clicking “Continue”, the new question is given where the task is to place a comma separator to make sure that the written answer to the question is correct.
Nature
The game moves us into a Lithuanian forest, where many natural resources are abundant. The player visits the forest, clicks on cardboard silhouettes, than sees the image of the object and has to correctly enter the name in empty boxes using the keyboard. By correctly answering the player profits not only in points, but also learns interesting information about the nature.
Culture
The game is inspired by the original antique cinema. The movie tape fragment is used for presenting photos on the screen of well-known people in Lithuania, like country’s artists, creators, performers. We start with arranging correctly photo puzzle, then we try to guess who is that favorite person, and finally a brief information about his or her merits is presented for us.
The Cathedral
In the game we enter the Cathedral Square in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania. The tiles of this square are used as the main control element for guessing the names of famous buildings. This game is designed to get acquainted with the Cathedral Square and nearby buildings. By guessing the letters and trying to arrange the title of the displayed building, we get or lose points for that.
Kings
This game is meant to get acquainted with the rulers of Lithuania. In it is presented a genealogical tree with the thrones and the country management dates below them, and the player is asked to drag using the mouse all the rulers to place them in the right thrones. Right and wrong choices are accompanied by playful animation.
Flag
The goal of the game is to select the correct color on the palette of colors and paint the Lithuanian tricolor flag.
Columns
The goal of the game is to construct Columns of Gediminas and Double Cross (Vytis) from the provided parts using the mouse for control.
Organizations
The goal of the game is using the mouse to assemble the flags of three organizations (UN, EU, NATO) from the given bank of signs.
Coat of arms
The goal of the game is to select a suitable color paint bucket and color the Lithuanian coat of arms in the correct colors.
Anthem
The goal of the game is with the help of the mouse to place words into empty spaces found in the text of the Lithuanian anthem.
Ethnography
The goal of the game is to divide Lithuania into four ethnographic regions. This is done by clicking with the mouse on the yarn roll defining the region, and then selecting the corresponding areas for that region in the corresponding color. When this game is finished correctly, at the end, each region becomes a button, which launch a new game oriented specifically to that region. So there are 4 more games inside (they are discussed separately below).
Samogitia
The game is aimed to get acquainted with the ethnographic region of Samogitia and to check yourself if you could speak the Samogitian language. Here the labels, which are given in Samogitian, must be assigned to the corresponding items by using the mouse for control.
Dzūkija
The game is intended to get acquainted with the ethnographic region of Dzūkija. Special regional songs are played in the game, their lyrics are displayed and the player has to guess which song it is by choosing from the list of all available songs by using the mouse for control. At any moment, he can listen to the song that has already played, by clicking on the corresponding track, also pause or continue playing the song again.
Aukštaitija
The game is intended to get acquainted with the ethnographic region of Aukštaitija. The goal of the game is to choose from the dresser’s closet clothes, clothing details, accessories and to dress up a man and a woman appropriately to this region.
Suvalkija
The game is intended to get acquainted with the ethnographic region of Suvalkija. The goal of the game is using the mouse for control to move a certain object to a corresponding Lithuanian building. Where and what to carry is indicated by a farmer standing in the game. He also says if you completed the task correctly or incorrectly.
Journey
In the game, the player chooses his own city in Lithuania, and when he throws the dice, he travels around Lithuania through its cities. The game shows us a beautiful nature pond. Lithuania is represented on a leaf, its cities are water drops, traveling figure is ladybird, and the gambling dice is a lily. When a ladybird comes on the top of the city, some interesting information is displayed and points are given. The goal of the game is to cross the whole of Lithuania and collect as many points as possible.