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! […]
After our #LEGup event on failure in games, and our follow-up article, here is a response from Darren Garrett, founder and Creative Director of Littleloud. Littleloud made several great educational games, including Sweatshop for Channel 4, but sadly closed last year. Does Darren see this as a failure? He shares his thoughts, as well as some excellent advice about the […]
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 […]
Guest post from Tom Matcham, mathematician and founder of coAdjoint, who shares his recipe for using personalisation to make better educational games. The elephant in the Games Industry room For many years now, there has been an elephant in the Games Industry room, and he’s sat right in the middle of Educational Games Corner. The […]
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? […]
As someone who works mostly in the cultural sector, for museums and the like, I’ve gotten used to talking about failing over the last few years. At various museum conferences and events there have been Epic Fail sessions filled with horror stories of million pound plus projects getting dumped after breaking so badly they only […]
RedWire is a new game engine that for remixing and mashing-up that runs in the browser, and the resulting games can be shared on the site or embedded into other sites. Since all the games are open source, you can fork any game on the site and make it your own. RedWire was demo-ed for […]
