Ace Mathician is Goodbye Galaxy's Next DSiWare Game

Wow, that looks pretty cool. Considering I love math, I will probably get if the review is good!

Could be interesting. Level editor and easy sharing included ?

wow this has to be one of the coolest game ideas ever.

hope i am still good at math atfer a few years out of school lol
but i guess it will be more like a trial'n'error formula

@battLeToaD
Probably not.. it's going to be 200 point game. And sharing is very difficult to do (not so much in the sense of technical aspect, but to get it through Nintendo lot-check).

@6ch6ris6
Any formula you can come up with will have an effect on the world. So there are alot of different answers possible! Ofcourse it will be a bit more tricky to collect all the stars

Not interested....until i heard Hugo Smits is developing this. Still...Math as fun fun as drawing? That is one huge promise.

@HugoSmits(#4): Yeah, i thought so. Maybe for the inevitable sequel then.

@battLeToaD haha who knows...it would be cool to call it "Ace Mathician 1+1"

But it won't be any time soon.. after this game I will lock myself in a room with a 3DS devkit and I won't come out until I have something briljant

@HugoSmits
"Any formula you can come up with will have an effect on the world"

As a maths (in a few months) postgraduate, challenge accepted.

The fact that Circle Entertainment is publishing it is weird - but cool. DSiware seems to be their main platform!

That means all that stuff I learned in school will finally be used!?

@Morpheel;

not just that... it will in fact decided the fate of the universe!

GASP
Sold.

I have half a year of high school algebra in my repertoire. Will that suffice?

@HugoSmits: Sooooo, math, platforming, pixel goodness AND chiptunes? Oh, it's also only 200 points? Great!

Mathician is a word??????

@bezerker99
It is now!

@bezerker99

I wanted to combine Math and Magician because the way you use math in this game is like magic

@warioswoods

don't sweat it.. this is not a test! every answer is valid!

@HugoSmits You could have mixed Mathematician and Magician. Although I guess Mathemagician might just sound like Math Magician.

@HugoSmits Oh, I kinda see now where they are going with the title of this game.... xD

This looks really really interesting for sure. I'm just a bit worried....do you need some extensive math knowledge for this. Its been many years since I've been in a math class and have forgotten nearly everything advanced. For example, I can't remember at all what sin, cos, and tan even are....So is there a certain level of knowledge required here?

i'll say it again... Stop making DSi ware games... ... make 3DS games.

Well, I went from being ridiculously uninterested to being pumper for this one. If the statement Circle released earlier is true, I can't wait for this one!

@bboy2970 you don't need any real math skills.

Hell, you can even guess. In each level you have 4 buttons with math symbols. You can use those to create a formula.

so if you have : sin - x - 2 - *

in that case your options are :

x
2
x*2
sin(x)
sin(2)
sin(x)*2
sin(2)*x

so it will never be unplayable!

I hate math, kind of.
But if Hugo's making it I'm Definitely checking It out. You make quality stuff!

Just put y=sin(x)*2 from the explanation image in my graphing calculator, and got a graph that looks exactly like how the platforms moved (look at the orange line).

Kids, this is called "win".

This looks really interesting.
I hope it does get the brain cells ticking - I could do with some memory jogging.
Once upon a time I could do quadratic equations - not exactly sure what they are now

@HugoSmits Oh dear, this is starting to look like so much fun, but my poor brain isn't thinking about math anymore. It's been six years since my last class (calculus) and I've forcibly forgotten everything back to about the sixth grade. Will there be difficulty levels? So little kids and us dummies can play it too? If there are, are they significantly different from those geniuses that can do sines and cosines?

@Lobster

no.. but all you lack in math you can make up in platform skills!

you don't know the math to place a platform just right ? aim your jump right and make up for the error!

Shame on Hugo. Math? Really??

I'm just messing w/ you. A brother needs to get paid. It's just a bonus when getting paid involves a game we want. NES TMNT just got pulled from the VC, it seems fitting that I ask about the prospects of that beat em up you said you were interested in developing...

If the game looks good, fun, and challenging in action I'll buy it. Nuff said.

@shinobi88

I have some real hardcore NES-loving stuff planned for the 3DS

@HugoSmits Excellent! I do have a sneaking suspicion that some math will be learned on my part, though, while playing. Gross! Haha, just kidding. I'm definitely looking forward to this title now.

@Hugosmits
What? A hint implying an NES type game let alone an NES type beat'em up?
Holy crud dude, if you do something like that for the eShop I'll buy myself and everyone I know a copy of the game!