Mia's Big Adventure Collection

Last updated
Mia's Big Adventure Collection
Genre(s) Edutainment
Developer(s) Kutoka Interactive
Publisher(s) Kutoka Interactive
Platform(s) Windows, Macintosh
First releaseMia'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.

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 certain objects in the scene when they are clicked on.

Characters

Mice:

Rats:

Bats:

Others:

Titles in the collection

Main series

Other titles

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

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]

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. [5]

Notes

  1. 1 2 "Meet the cast Archived 2009-04-14 at the Wayback Machine ". Kutoka.com, retrieved on 2009-06-17
  2. Vlessing, Etan (2010-03-23). "'Mia the mouse' heads for TV". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2018-02-06.
  3. "MIA - Cyber Group Studios". January 26, 2015. Retrieved June 18, 2015.
  4. @ToonAVisionTV (20 December 2019). "There's a new channel in town! Toon-A-Vision is a new kids and family friendly TV channel broadcasting nationally on Bell!" (Tweet) via Twitter. (note: the logo is visible as one of the 9 advertised toons, found on the bottom right next to Little Princess)
  5. "WSA Winners - eLearning - 2003 Archived 2009-06-18 at the Wayback Machine ". World Summit Award, retrieved on 2009-06-17

Related Research Articles

<i>Tiny Toon Adventures</i> Animated television series

Tiny Toon Adventures is an American animated comedy television series that was broadcast from September 14, 1990 to December 6, 1992 as the first collaborative effort of Warner Bros. Animation and Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment after being conceived in the late 1980s by Tom Ruegger. The show follows the adventures of a group of young cartoon characters who attend Acme Looniversity to become the next generation of characters from the Looney Tunes series.

Sniffles (Merrie Melodies) Warner Bros. theatrical cartoon character

Sniffles is an animated cartoon and comic-book mouse character in the Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes series of cartoons and comics.

Bonkers is an American animated television series and a spinoff as segment series called He's Bonkers of Disney's Raw Toonage. It aired from February 28, 1993 to February 23, 1994, in first-run syndication. The syndicated run was available both separately, and as part of the programming block The Disney Afternoon. Reruns of the show continued in syndication until 1995 and were later shown on Toon Disney until late 2004. The show is currently available for streaming on Disney+, having been included upon its November 2019 launch. However, this only applies to US territories. It is also currently available in Europe.

Bill Farmer American voice actor, comedian and impressionist

Bill Farmer is an American voice actor, comedian and impressionist. He has performed the voice of the Disney character Goofy since 1987 and is also the voice of Pluto and Horace Horsecollar.

<i>Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures</i> American animated television series

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures is an American animated television series. It is a revival of the Mighty Mouse cartoon character. Produced by Bakshi-Hyde Ventures and Terrytoons, it aired on CBS on Saturday mornings from fall 1987 through the 1988–89 season. It was briefly rerun on Saturday mornings on Fox Kids in November 1992.

Jim Reardon is an American animator, storyboard artist, television writer, television director, and screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the animated TV series The Simpsons. He has directed over 30 episodes of the series and was credited as a supervising director for seasons 9 through 15. Reardon attended the Character Animation program at the California Institute of the Arts in 1982, where one of his student projects, the satirical cartoon Bring Me the Head of Charlie Brown (1986), has become a cult classic through the likes of YouTube. He was hired by John Kricfalusi as a writer on Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures and later worked on Tiny Toon Adventures. He has been described by Ralph Bakshi as "one of the best cartoon writers in the business".

Nicktoons is a British pay television channel launched on 22 July 2002. It is a cartoon-centric sister channel to Nickelodeon. The channel airs Nicktoons, as well as acquired programming from outside providers. Unlike the American counterpart, it has been ad-supported since launch. It targets children aged 7 to 11.

David John Stollery, III is a former American child actor and, as an adult, an industrial designer. He appeared in numerous Disney movies and television programs in the 1950s. He is best known for his teenage role as the loner Marty in the Spin and Marty television serials on the Mickey Mouse Club TV series in the mid-1950s.

<i>The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures</i>

The Country Mouse and the City Mouse Adventures is a French-Canadian animated TV series co-produced by CINAR Films and France Animation, produced in association with Ravensburger Film & TV, WIC Entertainment, Reader's Digest, TVOntario, Videal and Motion Pictures, S.A., in co-production with Canal J and France 3. The series first aired in the United States on HBO in the United States from March 1, 1998 to October 27, 1999. The series then premiered in France on France 3 on March 27, 1998. This animated series was based on the book published by Random House in 1994, titled The Country Mouse and the City Mouse: Christmas Is Where the Heart Is, but the main characters were adapted for the Cinar series.

Kutoka Interactive

Kutoka Interactive was an educational software company founded in Montreal, Quebec, in 1995. The company produced, developed, and distributed both subject-based and grade-based video games for Windows and Macintosh from 1996 to 2017. They were most famous for their Mia games.

<i>Mias Math Adventure: Just in Time!</i>

Mia's Math Adventure: Just in Time! is the third title of the Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series created by Kutoka Interactive. Released in 2001 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches mathematics to children between 6 and 10 years old.

<i>Mias Science Adventure: Romaines New Hat</i>

Mia's Science Adventure: Romaine's New Hat is the second title of the Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series created by Kutoka Interactive. Released in 2000 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches sciences to children between 6 and 10 years old.

<i>Mias Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs</i>

Mia's Reading Adventure: The Bugaboo Bugs is the latest title of Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series created by Kutoka Interactive. Release in late 2007 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches reading to children between 5 and 9 years old.

<i>Mias Language Adventure: The Kidnap Caper</i>

Mia's Language Adventure: The Kidnap Caper is the fourth title of Mia's Big Adventure Collection software series created by Kutoka Interactive. Released in 2003 in Canada and the United States, the game teaches French and Spanish as a second language to children between 6 and 10 years old.

Didi & Ditto is an edutainment software series created in 2003 by Kutoka Interactive. The series consists in three grade-based titles for preschool, kindergarten and first grade.

Jeff Pidgeon is an American animator, screenwriter, storyboard artist, and voice actor at Pixar.

<i>Geronimo Stilton</i> (TV series)

Geronimo Stilton is an animated children's television series based on the book series of the same name by Elisabetta Dami. The series was produced by Italian studios Atlantyca Entertainment and Rai Fiction in collaboration with the French studio Moonscoop LLC for seasons 1–2, while for season 3 it was co-produced by Superprod, Back UP Media, and CNC, replacing the crew of Moonscoop.

<i>Minnies Bow-Toons</i> Animated television show

Minnie's Bow-Toons is an American animated children's television series that ran from 2011 to 2016 on Disney Junior. It is a short-form series targeted at younger girls and is the spin-off from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. The series is based on the episode, Minnie's Bow-tique, where Minnie opens her boutique filled with a variety of bows and bow-ties. This show introduces Cuckoo-Loca, a wind-up bird, and Minnie's twin nieces Millie and Melody Mouse into Disney's cartoons, starting with the episode "Trouble Times Two."

Mia's Reading Adventure: The Search for Grandma's Remedy is a 1998 video game developed and published by Montreal-based studio Kutoka Interactive. The game is aimed at children age 5.