This is a guest post by Matt Wasser, director of Frosby Apps, about his recent travels to Myanmar (Burma), where he helped to set up and run children’s app design clubs. This post first appeared on www.frosby.net in May. Nearly three months had passed since I moved with my wife to Yangon, Myanmar. We’d moved […]
GuidiGO – a platform for museums and storytellers I work at GuidiGO, a Franco-American company whose focus is to bring culture and heritage to everyone by reinventing the traditional guided tour on mobile devices. GuidiGO is a platform that allows every museum or storyteller to create guided tours with both rich content and geolocalized games using […]
UK edugames startup Nightzookeeper has raised 440K in seed funding since June this year. We’ve been following their growth over recent years so it’s great to see this dedicated team achieve greater success. We got the inside scoop from their CEO Josh Davidson, and found out about their plans to enter the Japanese market. Hello Nightzookeeper! […]
We spoke to Juha Väisänen, CEO of Fantastec, a Finnish edugames company which has just raised 825,000 USD of seed investment. Juha told us about Fantastec and gave some valuable advice to edtech companies looking to raise investment. Hi Juha. You are the CEO of Fantastec. Could you introduce yourself and your company to us? […]
Edugameshub interviewed Ian Steiner, and his dad, Tom, about Ian’s game Meteor Kids, and asked why and how a nine-year-old schoolboy decided to build his own app. You can also see Ian introduce his app here. Hello Ian. I enjoyed playing Meteor Kids. Why did you decide to make a game, and why did you […]
In an exclusive for Edugameshub, Nancy MacIntrye, CEO of Fingerprint, shares her thoughts on how kids app developers can create a profitable business and announces an exciting new partnership between Fingerprint and Samsung which all children’s app developers need to know about. There are one million apps in the app store with 80K focused on […]
How a Swedish interaction designer is bringing children and grandparents together with her latest app. From Finance to Interaction Design My name is Rozina Sidhu Koskela. I currently live in the south of Sweden in a town called Malmö, where I am studying my Interaction Design masters. My interest is in researching for design, and […]
Matt Wasser is the creator of ‘Frosby Apps’ – a fun learning brand for preschool kids, based in London, UK. In this article he details the improvements made to the new Appstore Kids Sections and shares his personal experiences on getting featured, localisation and the Android appstores. The New Appstore Kids Section on iOS7 – First […]
Edugameshub talked to BrainPOP, an extremely successful edtech pioneer, and asked them how to grow a global edugames company. They gave us some candid answers, as well as some pertinent advice for startups in the edugames space. Hello BrainPOP! Can you introduce yourselves to those who might not have heard of you? Where are you […]
What are the advantages and challenges inherent in working with children in the design process for creating games or apps? How do you stop them getting bored, and get useful information? This case study looks in detail at a project that tried to do just that, and provides some handy tips at the end. (Images […]
