Welcome

Thank you for choosing EduProfix! We hope it will provide you great fun and help you learn many new interesting facts.

If you have any questions or comments about EduProfix please feel free to send us an email to info@eduprofix.com. We will gladly answer it.

Start of the game

After installation you can find shortcut icon on your desktop and EduProfix entry in your Start/Program Files menu.

Note: If you have any problem running the game (e.g. after starting the game it says that d3d8.dll is not found) it is most likely because you don't have DirectX 8.0. DirectX enables playing 3D games under windows and can be downloaded for free from Microsoft: http://www.microsoft.com/directX.


Create a new player

On the first run the game will show you the following screen where you can create your new player:

First you can fill out your name. Just click on the name button and use keyboard to type your name.

If you want to use password, click the checkbox bellow.

EduProfix features three different game modes:

  • Safe mode: this one is really simple and safe. You only need to select the right answer, computer will ride for you.

  • Normal mode: this mode is recommended. You can both ride and answer the questions.

  • Turbo mode: for experienced computer game players. The cars have double the speed then in normal mode! A pure excitement.

Once you are happy with your player settings press an arrow in the bottom left of the screen.

Note: you can change player details or change playing mode anytime by using the Settings button from the main menu screen.
 

Login screen

Next time you will start the game a login screen appears. Here you can choose your player. Just click on the name in the left panel. If this player requires a password you can fill it in the right panel.


Main menu

Here you can select either single player or multiplayer game.

Or use the settings button to change your player details, like name or racing mode.

The graph shows you your points you have gained in different subjects. Move the mouse over the graph to get some tool tips.

Note that even when you are single you still can play multiplayer game against computer opponents. It is slightly different than single player so try it out, it can be a great fun.


Select a subject

Use arrow to select the subject you want to play. The right panel shows you your statistics in the shown subject. You can also see your points and you status there

 

Select a game

Once you select a subject you can select a game from this subject. Each subjects have different number of games, if there are more than 4 use the up/down arrows to switch. To select a game simply press button Play.

Each game will earn you different number of points.


Select a car

Each car has a different speed, acceleration and special features.

Just pick the right one for you.


Game information

At the start of the game each question has a counter how many time you must correctly answer it. If you answer it correctly this counter is reduced by one. If you answer incorrectly the counter is raised by two and so you have to answer this questions two times more.

Those questions you have already answered and there are no remaining answers become gray and you do not have to answer them any more.


Playing the game

Playing the game is easy. Use the arrow keys to navigate your car. All you need is to drive with your car under the flag representing correct answer.

The panel at the top of the screen shows you the question and bellow you can find answers. You have to choose one of these answers by navigating the car to the corresponding flag.

The right panel shows you the current question e.g. 9/15. Bellow the round number you can see the total count of remaining questions. The aim of the single player game is to answer all questions, that means to reduce this number to 0.

The last information on the right panel is the current standings of all players. The distance between the names symbolizes the points difference between the players. The position calculates with the points you receive at the end of the round so it can happen that someone bellow you has more points. But since you are before him you will receive more points at the end of the race.

Sometimes an answer is blank. This means it is hidden and it can be either correct or incorrect. You have to decide based on the other answers.


Score

For each correct answer you receive 10 points.
For each incorrect answer you loose 10 points.

In case you answer wrongly you also loose one life.
If you have no lives then you loose 20 points on wrong answer. So try to keep your lives positive.

Also the finish order is important and adds to your points:

Place Points
1st 20
2nd 12
3rd 8
4th 6
5th 4
6th 2
7th 1
8th 0

Take care: if you finish last in one race all your question counters will be raised by one. So you have to answer all the questions one more time!


Results

The results screen show you the overall standings. You can see the points of all players. Next to the points is a correct answer percentage, how many times the player finished 1st,2nd,3rd, how many lives does he have and his car speed.

Note: if you are first in overall standings your all you question counters are reduced by one. That means you will have to answer all the questions one less time.


Buying

In the results screen you can upgrade your car or buy items that will help you with answering. At the end of each round you can buy one improvement. Each car has different upgrade rates, for example buying speed will add 10 Mph for formula car but only 3 for a CityBus.


Multiplayer

Multiplayer is similar to single player. One player has to create a game multiplayer game. Then he can choose the subject and game. Other players shall choose join. They will be automatically joined to the created multiplayer game.

In the car choosing dialog the player that has created a game will see how many players has already joined and once all are joined he can start the game.

Multiplayer games are always 10 rounds long. Every round 3 new questions will be shown. Then in the race the players can get any of the already shown questions (also from the previous races)


Custom games
You can create any number of custom games. Just start the Editor. Start/All Programs/EduProfix/Editor. Here is the main screen:


Registration

After you order the software at http://www.eduprofix.com you will receive your registration name. You can fill this registration name into the registration dialog available from the main dialog shown at the start of the program.

Questions

If you have any questions please feel free to send them to us info@eduprofix.com. We will gladly answer them.