Category Archives: Projects

Best Day Ever with Polly Pocket!

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Mattel came to Smashing Ideas with the objective of bringing Polly Pocket’s unique story to life and increasing awareness of the updated Polly Pocket brand. At the core of the new experience Mattel wanted to introduce gamification to the Polly Site and offer girls an innovative digital play experience.

Polly Pocket Website Redesign

Partnering with Smashing Ideas, the teams collaborated on the initial concept and through brainstorm sessions defined the project goal: Build an immersive digital experience that speaks to the heart of Polly – Adventure! And encourages girls to  make every day the Best Day Ever.

This super fun and incredibly adorable site is seamlessly driven by several advanced front-end and back-end technologies. You can play games, watch videos, explore Polly World and go on adventures from your Adventure Tracker. PollyPocket.com is a unique online destination packed with delightful discovery that’s  unmistakably POLLY!

Get Poppin with Polly Pocket

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It’s time to get poppin’ with the latest Polly Pocket game for Mattel, Balloon Burst Races!

Polly Pocket Online Game

Balloon Burst Races is a sport-tacular game targeted primarily toward the youngest Polly Pocket fans (5-6 yrs.), with an emphasis on fun, surprises, and Polly adventure.  Three unique levels create a story as girls pop as many balloons as they can on land, air, and water! Mini activities between levels keep girls engaged and bring them into the overarching story.

Get on Board the Dinosaur Train!

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PBS KIDS and Dinosaur Train turned to Smashing Ideas to design and build a cross platform, Transmedia suite of educational math games complete with a story narrative to help bring the characters to life in Dinosaur Train’s Troodon Town. The Suite includes an online game and two mobile games. Buddy’s Gem Hunt (online) is a two-dimensional shape recognition game where kids sort by shape, size, and color. Dinosaur Train Camera Catch (for iPhone) is a virtual reality game that challenges kids to snap pictures of flying dinosaurs to complete patterns. All Aboard The Dinosaur Train (for iPad) is an educational problem solving game where kids are asked to estimate and match dinosaur sizes to the correct train cars’ capacity. The game can be played by one player or collaboratively in a two-player mode.

Get on Board the Dinosaur Train!

PBS KIDS and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) in a first-time collaboration with Head Start centers and other community-based organizations will make the Dinosaur Train math apps available at no cost to help increase access to educational children’s mobile content in underserved communities.

 

The project was funded by a Ready To Learn grant awarded to PBS Kids and CPB by the Department of Education with the goal of making a suite of educational learning experiences for kids with a goal of accelerating learning.

Find out more at PBS:

PBS Kids Lab

App Gap Press Release

Monsuno Website Live!

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65 MILLION YEARS AGO meteors fell to the planet. These meteors carried life in the form of powerful, chaotic, uncontrollable genetic material. This was MONSUNO.

Smashing collaborated with the teams at both Jackks Pacific and Topps Trading Cards to design and develop anonline destination where boys 6-12 can immerse themselves in the Monsuno experience.  The site showcases the characters, the world they live in and provides a plethora of information on the new action figures, accessories, trading cards. You can catch the new animated series on Nickelodeon.

The site was built using a Django framework, allowing for ease of updates and localization.

pat the bunny® and Alice for iPad featured in Entertainment Weekly

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This week’s Entertainment Weekly picked five apps to feature as “Fabulous Kids’ Books.” We were excited to see that both pat the bunny®, and Smashing Ideas’ Director of ePublishing Ben Robert’s still groundbreaking Alice for iPad, were among the select few.

Smashing Ideas is honored by the recognition. We hope the readers enjoy both eBooks as much!

Learn more about the apps at iTunes: pat the bunny® and Alice for iPad.