| Mia's Big Adventure Collection | |
|---|---|
| Genre(s) | Edutainment |
| Developer(s) | Kutoka Interactive |
| Publisher(s) | Kutoka Interactive |
| Platform(s) | Windows, Macintosh |
| First release | Mia's Reading Adventure: The Search for Grandma's Remedy 1998 |
| Latest release | Mia's Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs 2007 |
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.
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 certain objects in the scene when they are clicked on.
Mice:
Rats:
Bats:
Others:
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.
The franchise was announced in 2010 by Radio Canada and produced by Sardine Productions. [2] After delay Cyber Group Studios with SpaceToon Media's participation released the TV series in 2014 in both French and English. [3] Toonavision picked up the show by 2019. [4]
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. [5]