A couple of months ago I blogged about Cyberchase Inventor’s Workshop, which I did the programming on. Cyberchase is a kids tv show on PBS, and the site itself was done by Thirteen. It’s a pretty cool game where you build machines out of various parts and use them to solve different courses. In the last few weeks we added a new part – a propeller – which made five new courses available. Also added some sound effects, which makes the whole experience a bit more realistic I think.
Here’s the link: http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/inventions/
Go try it out, see how many courses you can solve. It requires a login, but no personal info to sign up.
Hi. Regarding your Cyberchase Inventors’ Workshop game. It plays perfect on one of my laptops, not the other. And I don’t mean it crashes or anything. What happens on one running IE6 and Firefox 2, is that when you click “Start Inventing” and go to the inventing screen, no parts show under the Parts List heading on the left. There are just none there, and construction is impossible. On the other laptop, I’m running IE7 and Firefox 2 and the parts show up perfectly. Have you ever heard of this occurring anywhere else? Can you imagine what could be blocking those parts? Both laptops run WinXP Pro. Both run Flash 9. I can’t imagine antispyware or a firewall could interfere with a Flash object, could they?