Well, I knew I wouldn't have much time to devote to this.  So it's a good idea I chose an educational game that will hopefully also be useful to my 8 year old daughter.  The basic idea is that a math problem will be presented (the one for the challenge will use only the 9s multiplication table).  The player then shoots a cork gun at the correct answer, which is written on a yellow rubber ducky floating by.

Inspiration is from Polaris, the Atari 2600 game.  :-)   And some little Flash thingy that I saw a long time ago -- as I recall the player simply clicked on the correct answer, but the answer was a little target that fell down.  Or something.  It was a long time ago.  :-)

I'll try and scan in the design drawing tomorrow.  I started drawing out classes today.  There are too many to finish.  :-)   But I'll make a go of it.

First look at Duck Math!  (working title)

I like the rubber ducky -- that might be the first image I use.  :-)

Today: Finish base classes (I had some problems even getting classes to work -- kept running into old Pascal habits that I had to overcome.  So getting base classes going is an achievement I'm pretty happy with!)

Get first graphic launched using instantiations of base classes.   (Is that the correct wording?)

This is a huge step for the game, believe it or not. :-)

It's aliiiiiiiiivvvvveeee! bwa-ha-ha!

My daughter will be providing the artwork for the game -- she whipped it out in about 15 minutes.

She's 8 years old. :-)

So.  A friend of mine needed me today.  And needs me tomorrow.  This is going to have a negative impact on the game.

I've still been working on it -- I printed out the source code and took it with me to various waiting rooms today.  And I'll do the same tomorrow -- actually, if I can get it typed in and debugged I might have a chance to at least have a player, missile and target operational.

No new screenshots, though. :-(  i could show my scribbled notes.

To be optimistic -- I want to finish this for my daughter to actually use to help her out with her multiplication tables.  Since she's doing the art, I think I can at least get her to play it once or twice. :-)

This will be the second game I've written just for my daughter -- the first was when she was 2.  I wrote a program using Blitz Basic that simply responded to any keypress or mouse click by drawing a large, brightly colored geometric object randomly on a screen.