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!

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.

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

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.

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.

This work has expanded and improved on everything that our colleague Ben Roberts put into the Alice for the iPad app – more scenes, more complex physics, all original artwork, oodles of fun sound effects and sound-scapes, a sleek user-interface and professionally recorded vocal talent to narrate the whole thing. As Ben puts it: “Any project feels great to complete and finally see live in the market, but to know you’ve also helped create something beautiful is a rare treat.” We all agree and hope you enjoy this adaptation of a classic as much as we do!

Guide Buzz, our common housefly hero, in his quest to reach Bugtropolis and cement his place in history as a Stunt Bug Legend. His journey will take you across 48 death defying courses spread across 4 surprise pack worlds. Along the way Buzz’s motorcycle gang will increase as other bugs join journey. Flick the high jumping flea, Web the lasso-spinning spider, and Dot the high-altitude hovering ladybug are a just a few of the friends ready to help. If you need more help to get past a pesky bee, don’t worry – there are 20 other bugs to choose from.

In collaboration with Random House Digital, Smashing Ideas’ creative team lead by Executive Creative Director Chad Otis, created this entourage of tiny heroes and the overarching story of their mission. From the original storyboards, to in-depth level design and extensive game-play balancing, the team immersed themselves in the world of Buzz and his gang. Stunt Bugs was built in Unity for iOS devices.

Do you have what it takes to become a Stunt Bug Legend? Get the game at iTunes.

Find out more at www.stuntbugs.com and follow Buzz and the crew on Facbook.

Currently available on: iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch (3rd generation), iPod touch (4th generation) and iPad!

In Super Why’s Alpha Boost iPhone App, players fly high in the sky above Storybrook Village with Super Why, Princess Presto, Alpha Pig or Wonder Red to get to a Super Celebration while collecting Super Letters to form a Super Party Password! With five different celebration choices and 100+ different party passwords, players have an almost endless supply of unique gameplay experiences!

With the Super Celebrations Cake Maker, players can make a cake specifically for a celebration they choose! Want a fish shaped cake with a sandcastle on top for your Beach Celebration? No problem! In this activity, players get to choose their cake pan, frosting flavor and cake topper while practicing spelling and phoneme recognition!

What else does a celebration need? Music and Decorations! Super Duper DJ’ing with Super Why, players get both! In this activity, as the Super Readers rock out, players identify the first letters of celebration-themed words and match them to target letters. As they successfully make matches the celebration scene comes to life!

Last, but not least, is Super Celebration Interactive Whiteboard Activity. Intended for use in preschool classrooms, with this activity teachers can choose from four different types of curriculum: Word Formation, Phoneme Recognition, Rhyming or Reading, and then choose one of five different celebration themes. Students are then invited up to the Interactive Whiteboard to touch the screen and follow curricular prompts to populate the scene. As they do so, the celebration comes to live and players can touch the screen to uncover fun, animated surprises!

These combined with video clips and added content create an engaging overarching storyline on multiple platforms for families. Visit the SUPER CELEBRATIONS page within the Parents & Teachers portion of the SUPER WHY! to see the full suite.

With this new approach the Smashing team focused in on ease of access, adding features that showcased the different math topics plus creating learning pathways for kids to follow. “Find It!” makes it easy for kids to dive into topics and find a plethora of associated games, videos and printables. Once kids begin playing, “More Cool Stuff!” helps them discover a pathway to more content based on the math topic or their personal connection to a character.

The new site is built on the Django framework using a robust tagging system that allows ease of managing the content, along with the associated topics and learning pathways. A custom recommendation engine tracks the user’s interactions, and serves up content that encourages kids to keep learning through play! Optimized for SEO, Cyberchase is more than a TV show, it’s a destination that where kids get the most out of math!

Built to be enjoyed on computers, tablets, and smart phones, kids can explore the award-winning, adventure series and discover that Math is Everywhere!

Barbie^TM Princess Charm School (based on the brand new DVD sharing the title) brings sparkle to story time as girls tap, swipe, read and play with their favorite fashionista: Barbie^TM! Experience Barbie’s latest royal adventure by watching and listening, reading at your own pace or record yourself reading the book to share with a loved one.  Plus, play hide-and-seek and collect stickers to add to customizable storybook scenes.
 

 
Produced in partnership with Random House and Mattel, this app is bound to be a favorite for any little princess.

See the app in the iTunes store!