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How I Created a Fun Numbers Game in a Weekend
Numooji: a fun numbers game with animal personalities
Where it all started
How many times has it happened to you that someone quickly asks you to solve a simple maths problem, and you freeze or can’t figure out the answer quickly enough? By the time you’ve even started thinking, the other person has already answered.
It happens to me quite often, even though I’ve always liked maths and solving equations.
So I thought, why not create a simple numbers game to practise solving equations, but make it a little more interesting? I wanted to give it some personality, so I came up with the idea of creating animals, each with its own way of playing the game.
And that’s how Numooji started.
Giving numbers a personality
I wanted to give the equations and the way we solve them a personality. So I started with the animals I love. I created their characters in Figma and started defining what each one would do in the game.
Pibble: The cute little pig jumps straight into solving questions without…
