Archive for category Meghan’s Matching Games

Preschool edition now on iTunes

mmgpNow available on iTunes, Meghan’s Memory Game Preschool for the iPhone and iPod Touch contains over 200 age appropriate words. This edition kicks off with the V1.2 game engine!

The idea behind the game is for your preschooler to remember the position of the words that have been revealed on previous turns. It is a great game to develop attention, learn new words and sharp listening skills.

Meghan’s Memory Game Preschool starts with twelve cards. The player is instructed to find the matching pairs of cards until the board is cleared. To help develop reading skills, as each card is selected a real voice announces the word. As a match is made Meghan praises the great effort with phrase like “Good Job” and “Awesome”. When the board is cleared a surprising splash screen is displayed with sounds of children cheering and some more praises from Meghan. The second level fills the screen with additional cards and the game concludes when the player completes the matches. Both the number of tries and the score is kept during game play.

Features:
- Grade appropriate word matching
- Spoken words
- Two levels of difficulty
- Engaging and educational gameplay
- Sharpens memory skills
- Develops reading and word recognition

Enhancements to Meghan’s Memory Game engine V1.2:
- More time to read the words when non matching cards are flipped over.
- Sound effects during card flips to make the game a bit more fun for the little ones.

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YouTube video posted of 1.2 enhancments to MMG

As mentioned in our previous post, in the latest update of Meghan’s memory game we enhanced the way the cards flip over. Version 1.2 of Kindergarten should be showing up in the App Store anytime now (our updates status has been changed to “Ready For Sale”).

Here is a video of how it now functions:

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Meghan’s Memory Game Preschool edition is in the bag!

Today I was able to finish up coding some important changes to the way the cards display when being selected and complete the coding of a 1.2 version of the game. In earlier versions, the cards flip over a bit too fast for little readers to be able to fully grasp what they are looking at. So, to make the game play more enjoyable and hopefully more educational I spent a good bit of time re-engineering how things work. I had to incorporate a game play timer and spawn off a thread to flip the cards after about a second of time has passed. The results look very good and we are excited to see how this change is received as we incorporate it into the other editions. Also new to this version and especially geared toward the younger players of the game are some extra sound effects when cards are flipped back over. The Preschool edition should hit the store on or about the 15th of May.

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Meghan’s Memory Game 2nd Grade

mmg2 Well it took a little longer to hit the store with this one then we had hoped, but we are please to announce that Meghan’s Memory Game Second Grade for the iPhone and iPod Touch received final approval from Apple and is available in the educational games section of the iTunes Apps Store.

Meghan’s Memory Game Second Grade contains close to 400 age appropriate words. The idea behind the game is for the player to remember the position of the cards that have been revealed on previous turns. It is a great game to develop attention, learn new words or just to keep your mind sharp.

Meghan’s Memory Game Second Grade starts with twelve cards. The player is instructed to find the matching pairs of cards until the board is cleared. To help develop your child reading skills, as each card is selected a real voice announces the word. As a match is made Meghan praises the great effort with phrase like “Good Job” and “Awesome”. When the board is cleared a surprising splash screen is displayed with sounds of children cheering and some more praises from Meghan. The second level fills the screen with eighteen cards and new in this edition is a third level with twenty-four cards. The game concludes when the player completes the matches.

Features:
- Grade appropriate word matching
- Spoken words
- Three levels of increased difficulty
- Engaging and educational gameplay
- Sharpens memory skills
- Develops reading and word recognition

Next up… Third Grade! We hope to finish up the voice recordings this week and upload it to Apple for review.

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2nd Grade completed and an update to Kindergarten

We had a good development day and the testing crew and I are pretty beat. We got a lot accomplished though. Meghan’s Memory Game 2nd Grade has been completed and we also finished up updates to Kindergarten to re-release it with the same code base (1.1) that First Grade is running. The 1.1 version contains a correction to how we tracked the score and has a cleaner looking first level interface. Right out of the gate we included these changes into the Second Grade. Second Grade has also been enhanced with a third playing level. This is sure to make the game a bit more interesting for the older kids. So, if all goes well with the App Store review process, Meghan’s Memory Game 2nd Grade for the iPhone and iPod Touch should be released on the 25th of April. The 1.1 update to Kindergarten will be released as soon as the App review process is complete.

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