Amy's History Hunt (video game)

Amy's History Hunt
Key crew
Publisher:	[[publisher::BBC]]
Release details
Platform:	Browser based Flash game
Genre:	Question and Answer
Release date:	August 2010

History Hunt was a game available on the BBC Doctor Who website. It was based around Amy's actions during the events of The War of Art.

Introduction

Amy Pond shouts outside the TARDIS for the Doctor. She sees someone and tells them that the Doctor had ran out in search of his favourite painting. She returns inside where the TARDIS tries to tell her where the painting is. It shows her a room of a safe and some pictures. She sees a note on the safe from the Doctor to the Doctor telling him that the painting is in the vault, that he can find the code to the safe on the pictures and that he needs to buy socks. Amy asks the person to help her by going to the gallery and working out the combination to the vault.

Game

The game was in a question and answer format, giving multiple choices, allowing players to research the necessary information beforehand.

For each of the ten topics, three questions needed to be answered. Should the player answer incorrectly, they had to begin that topic again. Each correctly answered question also unlocked a small fact about the topic of the question. Once the three questions had been answered, one number was revealed for unlocking the safe.

The ten topics were:

• RMS Titanic
• Stonehenge
• Pompeii
• Charles Dickens
• Queen Victoria
• Shakespeare
• The Romans
• Agatha Christie
• Vincent van Gogh
• Winston Churchill

Once all numbers were unlocked, the safe opened to reveal the painting. As a prize, the player was rewarded with a short story in PDF format, entitled, The War of Art.

Continuity

• This game chronicles Amy's actions while the Doctor looks for his painting. (The War of Art)
• Amy calls the TARDIS "old girl", noting that the Doctor does so. The Doctor has continuously shown affection for the TARDIS, referring to it as a female. (DW: Rise of the Cybermen, The Eleventh Hour et al)

Discontinuity

• This takes place after The Big Bang, though the absence of Rory Williams is not explained.

Timeline

• This takes place after The Big Bang

External links

• BBC - History Hunt - Introduction (geolocked to UK)
• BBC - Doctor Who - The War of Art (link to PDF)