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Mia's Big Adventure Collection

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Genres
  
Edutainment

Publishers
  
Genre
  
Educational entertainment

Developers
  
Publisher
  
Kutoka Interactive

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First release
  
Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat2000

Latest release
  
Mia's Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs2007

Platforms
  
Microsoft Windows, Macintosh

Similar
  
Mia's Reading Adventur, Mia's Math Adventure: Just in Ti, Mia's Science Adventur, Mia's Language Adventur

Mia's Big Adventure Collection is an edutainment software series created in 1998 by Kutoka Interactive. The series consists in five subject-based titles for children in elementary school.

Contents

Gameplay

In the introduction of each of Mia's adventures, the player is invited to help her on a quest. As the player progresses through the game, there are various educational activities.

The difficulty level set by the player at the beginning of the game corresponds to different and more challenging question sets. Optionally, the player may bypass the entire adventure part of the Mia game and enter straight into a menu of all educational activities.

Inside Mia's adventure, the character of Mia follows the player's cursor on the screen and reacts to clicks on certain objects in the scene.

Characters

  • Mia Mouse: She is a feisty and clever mouse who carries a skateboard in her backpack. She lives in the attic of an old Victorian house on Carrington Lane, where her family has lived for generations.
  • Marty Mouse: He is Mia's best friend. He is a very smart kid who likes to read books and is a bit shy, especially around Mia.
  • Miguel Mouse: He is a gifted mechanic from Mexico.
  • Manfrid Mouse: He is Marty's father. He owns the General Store.
  • Freddy Frog: He is an accident-prone friend of Mia who lives in a pond in the backyard of her house.
  • Betty Bird: She is a woodpecker flying around the gossip in Mia's neighbourhood.
  • Romaine Rat: He is a businessman who has a special passion and talent for accumulating Sparklies, the currency in Mia's world.
  • Pompon Rat: He is Romaine Rat's left arm and the cousin of Nopompon.
  • Nopompon Rat: He is Romaine Rat's right arm and the cousin of Pompon Rat.
  • Titles in the collection

  • Mia's Reading Adventure: The Search for Grandma's Remedy (1999)
  • Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat (2000)
  • Mia's Math Adventure: Just in Time! (2001)
  • Clik & create With Mia: A Complete Creativity Studio (2002)
  • Mia's Language Adventure: The Kidnap Caper (2003)
  • Mia's Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs (2007)
  • Technology

    With the exception of Mia's Language Adventure, which uses Kutoka's own 2D engine, all Mia games were developed with the Macromedia (later Adobe Systems) Director multimedia application authoring platform.

    The in-game 3D animations are made with Softimage 3D (and later XSI) before they are imported as sprites inside Director. The animated 3D cinematics are also made with Softimage's technology and exported as QuickTime movies.

    TV series

    In the late 2000s, it was adapted into a TV series which currently airs on Gulli.

    Awards

    In addition to awards received by the individual titles in the collection, the whole Mia collection received a United Nations World Summit Award in 2003.

    References

    Mia's Big Adventure Collection Wikipedia