Looking to spread the word about his french fry resturant, French Fry Heaven, Scott Nelowet created a mobile game app to educate the public about the store’s wide variety of french fry flavor toppings. Players match ingredients with characters like Big Tater. If you complete the game, you go on to the next character — […]
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If you’ve heard of Angry Birds, but don’t understand the appeal, perhaps this NY Times article: will help: In 2009, 25 years after the invention of Tetris, a nearly bankrupt Finnish company called Rovio hit upon a similarly perfect fusion of game and device: Angry Birds. The game involves launching peevish birds at green pigs
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“You can’t build a truly great app unless you iterate like crazy,” said Naomi Kokubo, “And there’s no better way than to code it yourself.” A year ago, Naomi, a mother of two, had ample business experience but no coding background. Instead of hiring an engineer like she’d done in the past, she decided to
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Vindy.com: Brain Swaggle is an interactive game that combines Scrabble and chess, making for an online game that’s strategic and stimulating, said Downing, the game’s creator, who is from Cortland. “I thought that it would be cool if somehow a game could be created combining the strategy of chess with the vocabulary skills needed for
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James Pickett is a fan of the movie, Flash of Genius. The movie chronicles the fight that Robert Kearns had to go through to be recognized as the inventor of intermittent windshield wipers. James is in a similar fight for recognition. Twenty five yeas ago, James came up with the idea to use small football
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The Washington Post: Norman A. Sas, 87, who invented a buzzing, vibrating tabletop game called Tudor Electric Football, a wildly popular and long-enduring simulation of professional football action, died June 28 at his home in Vero Beach, Fla. With an electric motor and a sheet of metal, Mr. Sas devised a game that enthralled millions,
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Wired: There are five “worlds,†each with twenty levels, and as you progress through the levels the “dragons†hatch and grow into their full-sized versions. While this in itself has nothing to do with algebra, I mention this because my kids love this. It’s a very tiny incentive (along with earning stars) but they really
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The Guardian: Draw Something is the latest classic board game to be reinvented for the digital age. Words With Friends is the new Scrabble, Monopoly is a hit online. But none has rivalled the phenomenal growth of Draw. The game has been a winner from day one – it was averaging three drawings a second
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This is Gloucestershire: The game, called Word for Word, challenges people to form words out of 99 wooden tiles in a race against the clock. It was first snapped up by Gibsons Games, the UK’s oldest independent games company, and was shown for the first time at the London Toy Fair last month. Managing director
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Trying to find a fun way to educate your kids about government-related topics? Mary Jo Joyce found a way to do that with her unique card decks. The three Parli-Cards games produced so far test a player’s knowledge of American history, U.S. presidents, the political process and even the federal government’s abundance of agency acronyms
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