Nevhma: Sugar activity for math4

Nevhma is a Sugar activity my friend Rob and I are working on to cover a math curriculum item for the Math4 Project.

We’re tackling requirement 4.G.6, which deals with teaching kids about the rectangular coordinate system. Our immediate idea that we’re working with right now is a Tron like game, where you race your opponent to various coordinates to gain points. Right now, it’s pretty simple; you’re just racing around to goal points before your opponent gets there.  Plans for future development include the volatile tail (like in a traditional tron game), networking support, and maybe some cool powerups (earned by solving math problems, of course) or other game enhancements.  Perhaps later down the road we could even introduce some different coordinate systems… just for kicks.

I did a little video cast you can get here: http://danielsmw.fedorapeople.org/Nevhma.ogv. I’ll put this on YouTube soon so Fedora doesn’t have to handle the load, but for some reason YouTube’s upload page isn’t working for me at the moment. Note that the video is mirror-imaged because of my webcam. EDIT: The video can now be found on Youtube.  Please use this if you can, but if you don’t have Flash, you can still use the Ogg file above.

Also, as far as I know, there aren’t any Tron games already out there for Sugar, so maybe we can make the educational options optional and kill two birds with one stone with Tron/Achtung, die Kurve! game.

EDIT: I forgot the most important link (to the source): fedorahosted.org/nevhma.