W.E.L.D.E.R. Word Game for Mac

Highline Games hired Art & Logic to port their popular iOS word game, W.E.L.D.E.R., to Mac OS X. The Mac version was an Editors' Choice and climbed to #1 in the Games category. See it in the App Store

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  Mac OS X  GameCenter  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Social Networking  Games  Recreation

Dave Mustaine: Guitar Prodigy

The Way of H hired Art & Logic to develop new features for their flagship app Rock Prodigy and their new release Dave Mustaine: Guitar Prodigy. The project was to make these iOS apps more useful and easier to use with specific attention to new and important functions which allow the user to adjust the tempo of playback and loop certain sections of a song for focused practice. The response to the new version of the app has been extremely positive. See the Wired review.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Audio  iPod touch  iPad  Core Audio  Music  iPod  Entertainment  Music  Lifestyle  Games  Audio

Social Resistance Training Game

Art & Logic worked with York Zimmerman to design and implement People Power, a cross-platform game that is intended to teach the principles of non-violent resistance to participants in social movements. Based on principles and a mathematical model that were derived from the Serbian overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, as well as study of other similar historical struggles, a graphically appealing game was designed that supports the modeling of conflict and resolution. more...

Art & Logic worked with York Zimmerman to design and implement People Power, a cross-platform game that is intended to teach the principles of non-violent resistance to participants in social movements. Based on principles and a mathematical model that were derived from the Serbian overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic, as well as study of other similar historical struggles, a graphically appealing game was designed that supports the modeling of conflict and resolution. Art & Logic also built a Scenario Design tool. This component allows designers to build arbitrarily complex social models and resistance programs, for use within the game.

TAGS:  Mac OS X  Windows  Flash  Flex  ActionScript  AIR  Media  Education  Games  Film

Candy Themed Game

CandyWarehouse.com hired Art & Logic to develop Truffle Shuffle, a candy-themed "match 3" game. The game is written in JavaScript, which allows it to run on iOS and on the web.

TAGS:  Web  JavaScript  HTML  jQuery  Retail  Games  Food

iPhone Game for Children

3Pm Studios hired Art & Logic to develop Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals, a children's mix-n-match game that became a runaway hit after its debut on the iTunes App Store. Players select a "pal" and listen to them talk about what they like to do. After learning about the character, the child matches the head with the corresponding body and feet. A special surprise appears after matching all ten pals. more...

3Pm Studios hired Art & Logic to develop Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals, a children's mix-n-match game that became a runaway hit after its debut on the iTunes App Store. Players select a "pal" and listen to them talk about what they like to do. After learning about the character, the child matches the head with the corresponding body and feet. A special surprise appears after matching all ten pals. We developed this iPhone application using Apple's iPhone 2.0 SDK and xCode 3.1. Another variation of the game was released as ABC Alphabet Game for kids with Henry & Hailey. Henry & Hailey's Preschool Pals was nominated for the 2008 Best App Ever Awards.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Core Audio  CoreGraphics  Games  Children

County Budgeting Game

Sauk County, Wisconsin hired Art & Logic to re-brand a Flash game. The original game allowed users to create hypothetical budgets for New York City. For example, players could decide to raise taxes or cut emergency services in an attempt to balance the budget. Art & Logic made modifications to the user interface and the internal data so that the game was for the Sauk County budget instead of the New York City budget.

TAGS:  Web  Flash  Games  Government

Pickup Lines on Your iPhone

Wingman is an iPhone app that generates pickup lines based on user input for several categories (Face/Body/Intelligence, etc). The application selects a pickup line based on the point value of each of the user selections. The Lite version randomizes the selections, not allowing user choice. In the full version, the user can take a photo or choose an image from their photo library to replace the "girl" image on the pickup line screen.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  Cocoa  iPod touch  Xcode  Entertainment  Lifestyle  Games

Education and Communication Apps

Mayer-Johnson hired Art & Logic to write a collection of engaging iOS apps for use by educators, speech-language pathologists and parents. The apps are built around Dynavox/Mayer-Johnson's library of thousands of PCS (Picture Communication Symbol) images, with high fidelity audio recordings of each word and phrase. Art & Logic drew on its expertise in mobile development to build each app as an exciting, interactive game or activity to help make learning fun for young children or individuals with speech and language challenges.

TAGS:  Mobile  iOS  iPhone  Objective-C  Smartphone  iPod touch  iPad  Tablet  Education  Publishing  Games