QFire

Introduction

Welcome to QFire, the ultimate quick fire mental math game!
This game is inspired by Math Flash by the American Printing House for the Blind. The aim of this game is simple, to answer as many short maths questions as you can. Are you a young child developing their mental math skills? Do you want to keep up the mental math skills you already have? This awesome game is for you!

Features

• 5 quizzes of quick fire maths questions to help you exercise your mental mathematics skills.
• The game is fully accessible for screen reader users, so the blind can play along as well as those with fully functioning eyesight.
• Certain aspects of the game can be customised, such as the number of questions in quizzes, and the minimum right answers required to pass a quiz.
• The game runs entirely offline. It does not collect and/or send any information about you, your PC, your network, your internet usage, etc to the developer or anyone else.
• The game supports a wide range of Windows versions, and is extremely light on system resources.
• The game runs within its own little sandbox, or cubicle. It does not try to store or access anything outside of this location.

System requirements

• A PC running Windows 2000 or higher.
• At least 16MB of RAM.
• Either a 32-bit or 64-bit CPU.
• A sound card for the game's sound effects to work.

Installing and launching

use a tool such as 7-Zip, or the zip archive utility built into Windows, to extract the zip file to a location of your choice, then simply navigate to that location and press Enter or double click on the QFire executable file to launch the game. When you launch QFire, you will hear a short tune, then a message will appear, welcoming you to the game. You can close this message and go to the main menu by pressing Enter, or press Backspace to exit the game and return to Windows.

The main menu

QFire's main menu contains five options. To choose an option, simply press the key that relates to that option. This process is the same for all menus in QFire.

P. Play the game

This option brings up the game play menu, where you can choose from one of five mental math quizzes.

• Adding
• Subtracting.
• Multiplying.
• Dividing
• Indices. These are also known as powers or exponents. Basically, how many times a number is multiplied by itself. I.E. 5 squared is 5 times 5, 5 cubed is 5 times 5 times 5, 5 to the power of 4 is 5 times 5 times 5 times 5, and so on.

At the end of each quiz, you will be told how many answers you got right, as well as how many you got wrong. You will also be told if you answered enough questions right to pass the quiz or not.

V. Visit the developer's website.

This opens the developer's website in a web browser, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Edge or Chrome.

R. View the readme file.

Opens the readme file in a text editor, such as Windows Notepad or Notepad++.

C. Configure settings.

Allows you to change various ways in which QFire works, such as the number of quiz questions, the target score for quizzes, whether the welcome message is shown at startup, etc.

X. Exit the game.

The settings menu.

Here is where you can customize QFire to your liking. If you're a teacher or learning support assistant setting up QFire for a student, for instance, this is where you can do it. There are eight options in this menu.

S. Startup sound.

Controls whether the startup tune is played when you launch QFire. This is on by default.

X. Exit sound.

Controls whether the shutdown tune is played when you exit QFire. This is on by default.

W. Show welcome message at startup.

Turned on by default, this setting determines whether you see the QFire welcome message when you launch the game. Turn this off to go straight to the main menu upon launch.

Q. Number of quiz questions.

Allows you to decide how many questions you want the five quizzes to have. You can have as many as 50 questions, or as few as 10. This is set to 25 by default.

T. Target score.

This setting controls the minimum number of questions that must be answered correctly in order to pass the quizzes. It can be as low as 3, or as high as 15. The default setting is 5.

N. Show question number.

Shows the number of the current question. This is on by default.

C. Show correct answer when you get a question wrong.

The correct answer is hidden by default. Turning this setting on will show it.

D. Difficulty level.

The difficulty level determines the types of quiz questions you'll get. The four options are:

1. Easy.
2. Medium.
3. Hard.
4. Super hard!

The higher the difficulty level, the higher the numbers you'll have to work with, and the more brain power will be needed! The default difficulty level is 1. Easy. This setting only affects the adding, subtracting and multiplying quizzes. The last 2 can get quite tricky on their own, especially dividing when decimal points get involved.

R. Reset settings.

Resets QFire's settings back to their default values. You will be asked to confirm your choice before the settings are reset.

B. Back to main menu.

Support the developer

Though QFire is completely free, your donations are highly appreciated and will help support me in creating future projects and covering personal costs. Here are some ways you can give your support.

• PayPal: seedy360@hotmail.com
• Become a Ko-Fi member
• Support me via CashApp
• [Donate via Itch](https://seedy360.itch.io/qfire