Games & Younger Audience
MathToybox is the new social home for my kids' games, featuring
PatternBlocks art gallery,
direct access to the
Triaxle Scoreboard, and room to grow in a kid-friendly design.
Flex3 / Flash 10 player / PHP.
Released 2009-12.
Pattern Blocks
are used in early math and just for fun. Great for drawing mandalas,
tilings, and tesselations. This is the most popular
CourseWare module by a landslide, now rewritten in Flex. New
features include full-browser resizing, better email, hundreds of backgrounds,
and more key shortcuts. Now with
Art Gallery for kid-safe sharing!
Flex3 / Flash 10 player.
Updated 2009-12.
The venerable original
ShapeGame as a Java applet.
I wrote this for my daughter when she was in kindergarten.
Note : I'm told this crashes Internet Explorer 7. Please use the Flash
Pattern Blocks
version instead if
you have a problem.
Java 1.2.
Released 1999.
Calligraphy is the second most popular
CourseWare simulator. This version replaces a 1997 Java applet I wrote as a
programming example.
This has many more features - textured
and tinted papers, transparent inks, zooming in/out, print options,
Undo support, marker as well as chisel nib, etc. Flash 7.
Calligraphy is now available in Slovene! Translation by Milan Ozimek.
Updated 2009-12.
Triaxle
is a puzzle game based on hexagonal instead of square neighbors. Score
history is tracked both locally and versus other users, via a
server database. Now with direct access to the
Triaxle Scoreboard. Flash 7.
Updated 2009-12.
WordShapes
is a spelling game for developing visual memory. The word lists are taken from the
Dolch basic sight words lists, mainly. Java 1.2.
Released 2003-9.
FishFood
is an aquarium ecology simulator for middle school life science.
To keep your fish alive, you need to feed them, keep the water oxygenated,
and not allow the algae to get out of control. Features three colorful fish species,
air bubblers, algae-eating snails, decorative plants, rocks, sands, and wallpaper.
Flash 7.
Updated 2009-12.
Kuizu
is a Japanese vocabulary quiz program I wrote for myself. It
features several intermediate level word lists, flash cards,
multiple choice quizzing, and matching games.
It assumes you want to memorize
kanji + kana pronunciation + English meaning. Auto-adjusts
word frequency based on success rate on words, tracks
progress and mastery. Can sort wordlist,
select which words to use, etc. Flash 7.
Released 2006-07.
Copyright © 2009 Ginger Booth