Marble Math Junior Wins Parents' Choice Award!

Tue, Mar. 19 2013

It seems like just yesterday we were carrying on, giddy with excitement over Marble Math taking home a Children's Technology Review Editor's Choice Award.

Today it's Junior's turn in the spotlight.

We couldn't be happier for the little guy.

Check out the Parents' Choice Award winner here.

Now we have to go shopping for a suit...

[video] Mystery Math Town App - The Ultimate Tease

Mon, Mar. 18 2013

I know I've been talking quite a bit about our upcoming Educational app, Mystery Math Town.

And I've also shown you some pretty nice pictures (if you haven't seen the virtual trading cards, you should check them out).

But none of that comes close to actually playing the game - and that's what has us so excited.

In fact, I'm playing the game right now.

Did I go too far?

Am I dangerously close to the line between an artful tease and just being mean?

If so, I apologize.

With just a couple of weeks to launch, our enthusiasm is boiling over and I really want to share it with you.

I've got an idea.

It's the next best thing to playing the game...

Presenting the Mystery Math Town app trailer.


It's the ultimate tease.
 

We used the awesome Reflector app for the screen capture and Lis constructed the trailer in Flash (yes, it's still good for something).

We hope you enjoy it.
 

Mystery Math Town Coming to the App Store April 3 for Your iPad

 

A Good App Icon Scrubbing

Thu, Mar. 14 2013

Original icon New icon after a good scrubbing

And you thought we were done talking about icons.

Check out the latest and greatest Mystery Math Town icon.

Sure, at first glance it looks like the original (new) icon but look closer...

It seems in our haste to settle the great icon design debate, we overlooked icon design rule #675 - overloaded detail and too many competing design elements are bad (especially when reduced to a quarter size of a postage stamp).

So we set our Aussie artist, Lis, on the task of cleaning the icon up to read better across all sizes.

Looking at them side by side now in the harsh light of day, even the large version of the original looks murky and yes, a little confused, beside the new and improved polished version.

Things are moving quickly now as we prep to submit the final app build to Apple next week, so stay tuned.

Next up, our app video teaser...

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