Mia's Big Adventure Collection

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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

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