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.

Authors

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

MousePaw Media staff is denoted by [brackets].

Programming:

• Harley Davis
• [Wilfrantz Dede]
• [Jacob Frazier]
• [Muhammad Adeel Hussain]
• [Elizabeth Larson]
• [Ben Lovy]
• [Jason C. McDonald]
• [Graham Mix]
• Moshe Uminer

Graphics:

• [Elizabeth Larson]
• [Jason C. McDonald]
• Wightking

Sounds/Music:

• [Jason C. McDonald]
• Bowen Volwiler

Educational Design:

• [Jason C. McDonald]
• [Graham Mix]

Dependencies

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

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 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.