Test Before You Leap

  The Design world has very few adages that have crossed over into the mainstream vernacular. The most famous is that form follows function. This is a critical notion that can …

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Buys Tribal Nova

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has purchased the Montreal-based app developer Tribal Nova. Tribal Nova does excellent work– well played HMH! http://www.boston.com/businessupdates/2013/04/12/houghton-mifflin-harcourt-buys-firm-that-develops-digital-games-for-pre-schoolers/jR6vxhezahqeGSH52SaxWP/story.html  

Less Is More, More Or Less.

Too often in kids’ gaming, I find that clients want to build overly complicated, sometimes convoluted story lines to help their games along. I can certainly understand the instinct to …

I [Heart] Losing

As a developer of young children’s educational games, I often find in my work that clients are hesitant to develop games in which children have negative consequences, either by losing …