DiamondQuest

A platformer about digging for treasure using math drills! It's inspired by 16-bit platformers.

DiamondQuest is an accessibility-first platformer, designed to be fun and completely playable by players with motor disabilities affecting their use of the mouse or keyboard. There is no "death condition", and no need to worry about reflexes or tricky combinations: the entire game is playable with one finger on the keyboard, or with a head pointer.

DiamondQuest is also a math practice game that coaches you while you solve math problems. Problem difficulty is determined primarily by how deep you dig, but the deeper you go, the rarer and more valuable the treasures get.

While most math games try to make practice fun by adding timers and urgency, DiamondQuest instead gives you all the time you need to solve problems at your own pace. There's no timers and no way to lose. The more you challenge yourself, the greater the rewards are!

Featuring original retro graphics, intuitive gameplay, and a relaxing ambient soundtrack, DiamondQuest will challenge everything you ever thought you knew about platformer games. Get ready for the most fun you've ever had with math.

Dependencies

DiamondQuest is built with Python 3.7 and PyGame. See requirements.txt for full dependency list.

Running the Game

You can run the game directly from this repository. If you're on a system that supports Makefiles, you can simply run make run.

Otherwise, create a Python 3.7 virtual environment, and install the package directly into it, using the following commands from the root of the repository.

Linux based systems:

python3.7 -m venv venv   # create the virtual environment
venv/bin/pip install .   # install the package from the repository
venv/bin/python3 -m diamondquest   # run DiamondQuest in the virtual environment

Windows systems:

python3.7 -m venv venv      # create the virtual environment
venv\scripts\python.exe -m pip install . # install the package from the repository
venv\scripts\python.exe -m diamondquest  # run DiamondQuest in the virtual environment

Credits

DiamondQuest was built as part of GAME MODE 2020, an annual open source event at MousePaw Media, and during a sprint at EuroPython 2020 Online. Thanks to everyone who got involved!

MousePaw Media staff is denoted by [brackets].

Programming:

• Harley Davis
• [Wilfrantz Dede]
• [Anna Dunster]
• [Jacob Frazier]
• [Muhammad Adeel Hussain]
• [Elizabeth Larson]
• [Ben Lovy]
• Mohaned Mashaly
• [Jason C. McDonald]: programming lead

Graphics:

• [Anna R. Dunster]: treasure textures
• [Elizabeth Larson]: miner avatar, splash screen
• Wightking: block textures

Sounds/Music:

• [Jason C. McDonald]: menu music

Educational Design:

• [Jason C. McDonald]

Development

To get started on development quickly, we've also provided requirements_dev.txt and a Makefile.

On any system supporting Makefiles, ensure you have Python 3.7 installed, and then run make venv-dev to create the virtual environment with all required dependencies for development.

See make help for the Makefile's other uses.

Contributions

We do NOT accept pull requests through GitHub. If you would like to contribute code, please read our Contribution Guide.

All contributions are licensed to us under the MousePaw Media Terms of Development.

License

DiamondQuest is licensed under the BSD-3 License. (See LICENSE.md)

The project is owned and maintained by MousePaw Media.