For our first African Edugames Q&A, we visited HeHe Mobile, based in The Office co-working space in Kigali, Rwanda. As well as creating apps of their own and for clients, the team at HeHe runs a 6-month-long code club program for secondary school students, at the end of which the students have fully-functional apps of […]
Teach Your Monster to Read is a free award-winning game from The Usborne Foundation designed to help children to practise the key first stages of reading. We caught up with the team who built the game to find out about their process and what they’ve learned along the way about game design, marketing and testing with […]
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? […]
“Games with purpose” specialists Preloaded announced last week that they were being acquired by Learning Technologies Group plc (LTG), an big move for any independent games studio. We wanted to find out more about why they made this decision and what it means for the company, as well as what advice they might have for […]
For our first country Q&A from Asia, we talked to Jeremy Mum, from Phnom Penh-based studio SomPom. We asked Jeremy about some of SomPom’s recent titles, and found out why it’s tough for a small Cambodian games studio to get noticed. Hello SomPom! Can you introduce your company and let us know how you got together […]
We’ve been keen to speak to someone at Amplify for a while, as we’ve heard some interesting rumours about them commissioning a huge number of new educational games, and wanted to find out more about their plans. We spoke to Justin Leites, Vice President of Games at Amplify Learning, and asked him some questions about […]
Edugameshub interviewed Pablo Curti, Creative Director at NIÑO Studio and creator of a beautiful new interactive story app (called Love, the App) based on a classic illustrated book. Hi Pablo. You are the creator of Love, the App. Can you give us a little background on you and your studio, which is based in Buenos […]
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 […]
Edugameshub spoke to Santeri Koivisto, CEO of TeacherGaming, the company behind MinecraftEdu and new game KerbalEdu. We asked Santeri how he decided to make Minecraft more accessible to educators, and where he plans to take his company next. Why did you decide to set up Teacher Gaming? I have a Masters in Education and a background in teaching. In 2010 I […]
The basics Name: Atiti Sosimi Product: Shhh or Tell it – Family Fun Learning Board Game which encourages kids to consider the consequences of their decisions. Each card represents a tricky scenario and players have 15 seconds to decide to ‘Shhh’ or ‘Tell it!’ then reflect on whether they made the right move. Home: London […]
