Math Blaster (Online)

This game is defunct. Do note the game no longer works at all without modifications. This is most likely due to the game's servers being shut down (as of June 30, 2023). As a result, further official developments with the game are unlikely to happen.

Math Blaster was the title of a 2011 online Math Blaster game, set in the modern continuity and featuring Max Blaster and GC. A half-month notice was given before Knowledge Adventure shut down on June 30, 2023 taking all their games with them (except for Neopets apparently).

To do: There is unused stuff in [https://web.archive.org/web/*/s3.amazonaws.com/origin.ka.cdn/MBUnityRollback/* rollback] and [https://web.archive.org/web/*/s3.amazonaws.com/origin.ka.cdn/MBUnity/* web]. There is a lot of unused stuff from World of JumpStart (character states, mythie types, etc).

Unused Areas#

To do: There's probably more.

ScienceCenter#

This area has the same music as the Spaceport, indicating that it may have been used as a base. It also has a portal to Morph Madness.

The area resembles a hub where there are some areas such as small grassy areas that may have housed some creatures, a giant telescope (drawing resemblance to ScienceLand in World of JumpStart), and an area in the center where, judging by the shape of it, may have housed a small funzone. There is a fish tank underneath the funzone area, and it is easy to fall off and land on some geometry placed below the map.

There is a return portal that likely would've led back to Morph Madness, but instead it simply teleports you back to your spawn location (not talking about the obvious Morph Madness portal).

There is also a character placed in the area called SizeRef02 and was likely used as a size reference.

Hangar#

This area has no music and is very unfinished. There is poor lighting, missing collisions in the area below the floor, and a giant piece of untextured geometry floating some 200 units out of bounds. There is a portal that would've led to World of Jumpstart (but instead leads to Spaceport), and a collision that leads to Galaxy Grand Prix. There are labels associated with these platforms labeled "Go to JumpStart" and "Space Racing" respectively, and these labels render on top of all other geometry. Oddly enough, this room is in the game's MMO rooms list.

There are two ships here: Max's Shuttle and the aforementioned untextured BlasterStarShip.

Unused Audios#

Max's Voicelines#

To do: Upload the rest of them.

The Max NPC in Spaceport cannot be interacted with and therefore his voicelines go unused.

Unused Features#

Trading#

This needs some investigation. Discuss ideas and findings on the talk page. Specifically: The menu is not functional, but would trading otherwise work?

There seems to be a trading feature that was cancelled. There is still reference to it in the code and it still has files present. The menu appears to be incomplete as it is not centered, you can still move and interact with things behind it, you can't interact with any of the buttons, and loading the menu prompts you with an error message. Changing scenes will remove the menu from the screen.

Intro Cutscene#

There is a cutscene that used to play when logging in for the first time. At some point (probably during the transition from webplayer to standalone), this scene was no longer played. It still exists in the files and is fully functional.

Watch on YouTube

Disco Alert#

Disco Alert was an event where a disco ball would descend from the ceiling and cadets would start dancing. It was likely only ever used during ambassador visits, however, code exists on the client that allows the server to trigger it at any time, so it is possible that there are undocumented occasions where disco alert may have happened.

Disco Alert can be triggered using the console.

Debugging Features#

Console#

Main article: Math_Blaster_(Online)/Console_Commands
Math Blaster has a console that can be opened with Ctrl + Shift + ~ and requires a password to be inputted before running commands.

Oddities#

Red Alert Portal#

There is a Red Alert portal under the spaceport, likely shoved under the map after a layout change brought the amount of red alert portals from 3 to 2. This door does not open when Red Alert is called.

Space Invader#

The spaceport also has an unseen red alert item, being the space invader. The item still spawns, but the mesh object has ObFloat, which causes it to remain at its spawn point 2000 units below the player's view, so only the glow is seen by the player. Though it was probably for the best, since Space Invaders is copyrighted.

Mudskipper Dirt Textures#

There are dirt textures for the unused "Mudskipper" mutt seen in the concept art. This mutt most likely would've been fish-shaped based on the concept art and the dirt textures.

Orange Larva#

There are 5 used larva colors: Pink/Cyan, Yellow/Blue, Green/Blue, Cyan/Green, and Purple/Pink, which are associated with the Eyeclops, Ickasaur, Grubble, Griffin, and Tweeter, respectively. But there is also an Orange/Mint larva texture that goes unused. It is possible that this larva would've morphed into the Mudskipper.