Game Classification
Français
EnglishElectric Crayon: Fun on the Farm Brian A. Rice, Brian A. Rice (U.S.A.), 1985
Classification
VIDEO TOY(Edugame)
Keywords
Purpose
Besides play, this title features the following intents:- Educative message broadcasting
Market
This title is used by the following domains:- Entertainment
Audience
This title targets the following audience:Age : 0 to 3 years old / 3 to 7 years old / 8 to 11 years old
General Public
Gameplay
The gameplay of this title is Play-based(designed without stated goals)
The core of gameplay is defined by the rules below:
Similar games
The Electric Crayon series was a very easy to use computer coloring book. Each entry in the series had about 30 pictures to color.
Pictures could be colored from a palette of 16 colors. A mix button would "mix" the current color with the 15 other colors... give a total of 256 colors. Choosing a color and clicking in the picture would do a color fill in the area clicked. This was the first "computer coloring book." The finished, or in progress, coloring was automatically saved to disk. When this program was developed "color fill" algorithms were excruciatingly slow, a special algorithm was created that performed a high speed color fill.
Pictures could be printed with, or without, a monthly calendar.
One of the first games to support the mouse and color printing.
"Fun on the Farm" had 30 pictures of farm life. [source:mobygames]
Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Apple II - PC (Dos)
Pictures could be colored from a palette of 16 colors. A mix button would "mix" the current color with the 15 other colors... give a total of 256 colors. Choosing a color and clicking in the picture would do a color fill in the area clicked. This was the first "computer coloring book." The finished, or in progress, coloring was automatically saved to disk. When this program was developed "color fill" algorithms were excruciatingly slow, a special algorithm was created that performed a high speed color fill.
Pictures could be printed with, or without, a monthly calendar.
One of the first games to support the mouse and color printing.
"Fun on the Farm" had 30 pictures of farm life. [source:mobygames]
Distribution : Retail - Commercial
Platform(s) : Apple II - PC (Dos)