Castles and Clowns

_Castles and Clowns_ is an educational title that can be played by one or two
players

When the game starts the player(s) choose whether to play the Castles game or
the Clowns game. Both Games are based on picture/letter recognition and in
both game modes the player(s) select a game speed which effectively sets the
game difficulty

In the King of the Castle game the player sees a representation of a castle
with ten windows. The game generates a random number in the range 0-9 where
each digit corresponds to a window. The player’s task is to identify the
appropriate picture and press the key which corresponds to it’s initial
letter; ‘d’ for dog, ‘t’ for television and so-on.
When all picture questions have been asked the player is shown their score and
is asked if they want to play again.

In the Clowns game the clown stands in the centre of the screen holding a
book. He has a letter on his hat. The pages of the book flip open to reveal
pictures and the player hits the RETURN key when the initial letter of the
thing in the picture matches the letter in the clown’s hat. Scores are shown
by balloons on either side of the clown, the first to win six balloons wins
the game, in a single player game the player’s balloons are on one side and
balloons are added to the other side for each wrong answer. When a game is
over the clown slowly floats upwards and disappears from the screen only to
reappear to ask the player if they want to play again.

Castles and Clowns