HIDING HANNAH

Hiding Hannah is an interactive book for children aged 2 and up.

Parents’ Choice Recommended!
Won 2nd Place in the 2011 Best App Ever Awards (Best Toy App Category)
★★★★★ Rated 5 stars by Apps4Kids.com! ★★★★★
★★★★★ Rated 5 stars by Famigo.com! ★★★★★

Nothing could stop Hannah from hiding. Not food (well, maybe certain snacks), or even TV (well, maybe her favorite show, Sock Monkey Dance Party). Whether she’s hiding herself or household items, she always has a blast.

And your child will have a blast as well looking for whatever Hannah hides. With 12 fun-filled pages and hiding places that change each time, it will be a different experience every time your child reads it!

Narrated by Tom Kenny (voice of TV’s Spongebob Squarepants), and illustrated by Sesame Workshop digital media artist Melanie McCall, Hiding Hannah is full of charming interactive features and will quickly become a household favorite.

View the trailer here:

Reviews:

“…the context, animation and games are extremely charming. Young children will find the app delightful and ask to read it again and again.”
—Best Apps For Kids

“With all of the excitement and interaction in Hiding Hannah, your child will barely be able to keep their fingers off the screen… The sound recording is simply awesome, with an adorable child’s voice and laughter which makes this fun for all ages.”
—AppDictions

“If you have kids in the 2-4 year age range, I wouldn’t hesitate to grab this app.”
—Pad Gadget

“Hannah’s little story is one worth seeking out. She’s a charmer.”
—Kirkus Reviews

“Hannah’s character is just adorable and her giggling gets you going page after page finding the things she hid and herself. Hannah’s parents are not always happy but you will sure be with this great app.”
—Apps 4 Kids

*Note* This app is supported on iPhone 3GS and higher and 4th generation iPod Touches. Both iPad 1 and 2 are supported as well.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hiding-hannah/id476237347?mt=8

HIDING MONSTERS

“Hiding Monsters is a charming e-book in which the reader plays a friendly game of hide and seek with a lovable group of monsters. The app is highly interactive and reasonably priced.”
—Best Apps For Kids

“Hiding Monsters is a short, sweet book that your kids will love interacting with.”
—MacLife

“Hiding Monsters is a solid interactive book app for children that packs a lot of bang for your buck.”
—AppDictions

“This interactive story is a lot of fun. Monsters are cleverly hidden, and it’s quite a delight when they pop out after being found.”
—PadGadget

★★★★★ Rated 5 stars by AppDictions! ★★★★★

Have you ever seen a monster? If not, you’re not looking hard enough, because they’re hiding everywhere… in this app!

Hiding Monsters is a fun interactive book for kids featuring a group of monster friends that are more interested in making you laugh than scream. Each page features a hidden monster for the user to find, and the hiding spots change each time you read it! It’s full of hidden surprises and interactive elements, with simple navigation for children young and old.

Narrated by Tom Kenny (voice of TV’s Spongebob Squarepants), illustrated by Sesame Workshop digital artist Melane McCall, and featuring an original score by The Bonebrake Ensemble, Hiding Monsters is bound to be a monster hit with your child!

View the trailer here:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hiding-monsters/id527412776?mt=8

• Vehicles – endless run AND endless drive!
• Multiple vehicle choices — Jeep and Tank, initially, with more to come
• “Last Chance” mode – when your vehicle is destroyed, you’ll pop out as soldier.  Still armed, but more vulnerable.
• Enemies that shoot back!
• Air enemies (helicopters and UFOs) that you can fire targeted rockets at (by tapping them)
• Completely randomly generated terrain
• Kill enemies by shooting them, firing rockets, or stomping
• Insane, movie quality sound effects
• OpenFeint leaderboards, and in 1.1, achievements

This is one of several photo apps we have designed and developed for customers using the camera you always carry around. With social integration photos can be shared on Twitter and Facebook.

With the latest in iOS and Android OS advanced photo features can be designed to create interactive experiences.

Download the free DARK SHADOWS PHOTO APP and transform your photos into the style of the new Tim Burton film, DARK SHADOWS. Apply filters, overlays, frames and colors from the film to create a masterpiece worthy of Collinwood Manor that can be saved and instantly shared to Facebook and Twitter.

The War Horse Experience is a second screen companion developed by Glowdot. With it you extend the experience of the movie and relive the events that took place in the movie.

Experience the movie through this immersive iPad app. Explore the interactive map to discover characters and unlock exclusive content including concept art and production sketches. Trace character history, reconnect with your roots and build a family tree with the custom Ancestry.com integration. Listen to the movie’s score, watch the trailer, view an extensive photo gallery and find tickets and showtimes near you.

DreamWorks Pictures’ “War Horse,” director Steven Spielberg’s epic adventure, is a tale of loyalty, hope and tenacity set against a sweeping canvas of rural England and Europe during the First World War. “War Horse” begins with the remarkable friendship between a horse named Joey and a young man called Albert, who tames and trains him. When they are forcefully parted, the film follows the extraordinary journey of the horse as he moves through the war, changing, inspiring and connecting the lives of everyone he meets.

mentalBlock was featured in the O’Reilly Press book “Best iPad Apps” in the “Physics Puzzle Games” category.

“If you’re a big puzzle fan and want to try some quality titles on your iPad, check this app out.” – AppVee.com

“mentalBlock for iPad is the perfect app for killing some time and building some brain cells.” – Appolicious.com

“There are plenty of puzzle games available for the iPad, but few with the style, sophistication and customization options of mentalBlock. Meditation has never been so frustrating, and that’s a good thing.” – 148apps.com

“One of the truly unique physics games on the iPad” – app store user

★ A TOP 50 IPAD GAME ★
★ AS SEEN IN NEW AND NOTEWORTHY AND WHAT’S HOT ★

mentalBlock is a physics puzzle game done in a totally unique style.

Some blocks need to stay, some need to go. Some need to be worked around, and some can be used to your advantage. Once you figure out the rules, and adapt to the physics involved, you’ll need to remove the mentalBlocks in each level in order to proceed. But it isn’t always that easy, as you might find green “idea” blocks that you don’t want to disturb.

Things may look easy, but remember: there are physics involved. That means, it doesn’t just matter WHAT you do, but WHEN you do it.

mentalBlock is not only a great physics puzzler on its own, but we’ve taken it to the next level, by including the same level builder used to create the levels that ship with the game!

Challenge yourself against the 55 levels that ship with mentalBlock (with more coming in updates), then create your own levels to share with friends, or even submit to us for possible inclusion in a special “user created levels” section.

FEATURES:
- 7 Distinct block types
- Real physics modeling and gravity
- 55 levels, from fun and clever to downright difficult
- Original sound effects and music
- Sound/Music toggle
- COMPLETE LEVEL EDITOR
- Create, edit, save and share your levels
- Totally unique “staticy television” graphical style and sound scheme

EngineYard has posted an interesting infographic which lays out some of the more interesting statistics related to gamification. I’ve embedded it at the bottom of this post as well.

Some of the more interesting points:

• Gamification spending will go from $100m a year to $2.8 billion in just 3-4 more years (that’s a lot of games!)
• Current “gamifiers” include Ford, Bayer, Mariott and others — companies you would typically not associate with games.
• Games are being used extremely successfully as employee-facing programs, as well as customer-facing.  Glowdot in particular is working on a couple employee-facing games currently and we are seeing huge benefits in the areas of training, retention and acquisition.
• Americans still play games mostly on websites and social networks.  (75 million mobile, 191 million social and web).  Glowdot’s game platforms allow us to hit all of those platforms (and more) — iOS, Android, Windows 8 and the web (via Flash) in a single development.  That’s a potential reach of hundreds of millions of users in one streamlined development.
• Even Al Gore is behind the trend: “Games are the new normal”

Here’s the infographic:

Courtesy of: Engine Yard