New APK upload to play store

We have fixed some preliminary bugs and have uploaded and published the APK. Thanks to the people who tested and gave feed back.

Version 1.3 uploaded to play store

App has been uploaded to itunes connect and awaiting review before the apple version may be released. Stay tuned. 

After trying different software programes and techniques to no avail. Mark had a brillant idea to simply use his point and shoot camera on a stack of books. It worked great and we were able to capture some awesome game play footage. See above. 

Forseti Film Studios, Game Trailer Division.... fully owned subsidiary of Forseti Digital Ltd.

Took a break

We took a break from dynamic texture placements to watch the Mec 2 engineering design competition. Give our brains a break from working on our algorithm. This subculture of brainy folks is always a great time. The students have built cars to tackle the different tracks: Obstacle course, speed and jump. 

Setting up the obstacle course. The Sand trap was tricky. 

Speed track. Go fast then stop in a before hitting a box. 

One cart was half the speed of sound... the sensors broke. 

Look at that car go...Back to Algorithms we go.

Apple Porting Begins

We have it on the ipad! After wrestling with some O-linker errors we have a successful build on Apple. Woot Woot. 

It appears we have some work to do with our dynamic positioning of textures. 

It is working and playing. Thanks Unity3d for making it possible to deploy games on both Android and Apple. 

Beta version on the Play Store

We have put the game on the Play Store! 

Things we are working on and considering for the game: Google doc

Please make comments below. Thanks for your feed back. 

Free the Balloon Beta!

We are going to launch a beta version of the Free the Balloon on the Play Store in the near future. By a beta version we mean the graphics are not perfect yet, still tweaking game parameters, and changing the user interface design.  We are hoping to use the feedback from users playing the game to help aid in building the full version of the game. Please play the game and give feedback. You can: comment below, send us an email, carrier pigeons, or smoke signals to the if directed to the new west. Whatever works for you. We appreciate your feedback in all shapes and forms (and flames) to help make this game more fun and a better educationally transformative tool. 


A few screen shots below:

Start Screen

Chapter Selection

                     

Game Play I

Game Play II

Score Screen

Here is the ideas and concepts behind Free the Balloon for parents, educators, and other interested folks see the--> Doc.

Fixed the bug!

Happily, we fixed the Android bug. Thank you Unity3d community. 

Android Development Woes

Why have we been bashing our heads against a wall for the last two days? Software development woes. The educational game we have been working for months recently stopped working on the Samsung Galaxy 3s. It works on all  other devices both Android and Apple (Hello Steve. How's your 2013 going? Good idea on the one ecosystem). The Unity platform we use is an amazing product. It has a convenient bug reporting process build into the program. However . . . all our efforts to get this bug report process to work failed. We suspect it had to do with the size of the zipped up project? Undeterred, like two pit bulls on a mission, we zipped up the project ourselves, uploaded to Mister Google Drive and emailed them directly. We look forward to a response which we will report in this stimulating and exciting space! Fingers crossed. 

Cool Math games for kids

There is a group of really cool education math game sites for kids: cool math 4 kids, Coolmath-Games, Coolmath 4 parents and some others.  We have been playing the games on this site and are impressed by the variety available. This group claims on their website to have over 2.5 million unique visitors a day and over 30 million unique visitors per month. That is amazing. It appears there is a large demand for educational games! This is very exciting for us at Forseti Digital Ltd. If you have a chance to check out these fun and addicting game sites, you will be presently surprised with the amount of content and variety. Happy gaming and learning. 

Intro for Free the Balloon

Gamification of school curriculum learning outcomes. Sounds too good to be true. Kids playing games and learning actual measurable things. Free the Balloon is simply that. Here at Forseti Digital Ltd. we have been working on this this concept for about five months. It is very exciting. Stay tuned for news and updates as we continue to test the game in the classroom and iterate on the findings. 

Free The Balloon Unveiled Google doc for interested folks, educators, and parents.