The first few months of the year are always busy writing award entries – as the saying goes, when it rains, it pours! At the time, it seems like quite a task to write different entries tailored for different awards and categories, but when you get that email through saying “We’re happy to announce that you’ve been shortlisted….” it’s definitely worth the effort – it creates a real buzz in the studio – and it makes our clients very happy too!… Read more
We think it’s important that young people have the opportunity to not only play games, use iPhone apps and Facebook, but that they know how to make things using computers too.… Read more
We’ve just won two exciting projects for good causes, The National Lottery Promotions Unit and Time to Change.
The NLPU has chosen us from a national tender process to create a new Lottery Good Causes website – the site will be totally redesigned and it will help users find out more about how Lottery funding works, where it goes, who has benefited from it and how to apply.… Read more
We’ve gone to Texas! Well not all of us – just Founding Director, Dave Eccles who will be mixing with like-minded people from the US digital industry and across the globe.… Read more
The app we built to compliment Channel 4′s Street Summer season of programming last year, has been nominated for another award!
The Rap Beatbox Choir YouTube app has been shortlisted in the Revolution Awards Media & Entertainment category, and it’s up against some strong competition.… Read more
Emma, Jaron and I spent the day at Playful 2011 on Friday, listening to all kinds of people talk about media, technology, games and playfulness in general.… Read more
There’s a really interesting post at Fast Company about a mash-up of Sesame Street and Kinect.
It combines the fun, familiar characters of Sesame Street with the cool full-body interactivity of Kinect, letting kids step into scenes and interact with their favourite characters.… Read more
Numiko have been working with experts at Glasgow Caledonian University (GCU) to develop a set of three groundbreaking online games for the for pre-schoolers. The first game to go live is Old MacDonald with the remaining two coming soon.… Read more
We’ve been working with the CBeebies team to create a fun and user friendly site for Grown-ups. The new website is a place where carers and their children can go for more information about their favourite programmes while encouraging them to learn and play together.… Read more
So, that project that we’re working with CBeebies on (I wrote a blog post about it before, you remember, right?) has just gone live! The first song of three has gone live, and the next two will join it soon.… Read more