Swim Buddies! available now for iPad and iPhone
After a long summer of R & D we are proud to release SB!
into the big pond of the iTunes App store. In version 1.0 you will meet 12 fascinating sea creatures and even learn a thing or too about each species. With every new update you can look forward to collecting additional swim buddies, learning more about our oceans and the marvelous life that inhabit them. Swim Buddies! isn’t an encyclopedia. It’s a playful app is for children of all ages, with simple to use, tactile feedback. Touch fish to hear their names, touch the open ocean to produce streams of bubbles… All for the price of a cup of coffee.
If you have questions, comments or suggestions, we’d love to hear from you! Drop us a note at: support @ outtoplayinteractive.com 
Swim Buddies! Swimming to a iPad and iPhone screen near you soon…
Production has wrapped on our latest title Swim Buddies! We’re really excited about it and expect it to be available in the iTunes App Store later this week. Swim Buddies! represents our first foray into universal apps. This allows you to purchase the app once, and install it on your iPhone/Touch and your iPad. Pretty neat huh? Well, we’ll see. But it is something we wanted to do for our lotal customers who happen to be gadget freaks as well.
Click, take a deep breath and dive right in!
Back to Swim Buddies! Click the bright blue icon and be plunged into an under sea world of beautiful and fascinating sea creatures. From the Humpback Whale to the tiny Yellow Tang you will learn amazing facts and tasty tidbits on a variety of species. You will also have the chance to learn a dizzying array of fun facts about our oceans. Just keep your eye open fo0r the little yellow science sub the Ocean Explorer. Tap it when it passes by and it crew will transmit some tantalizing information to wow your friends at work, school or parties.
And best of all, Swim Buddies! isn’t just your ordinary mobile app. It’s a living breathing underwater experience that will grow to meet your curiosity and imagination. Look for more sea creature, more fun facts and more activities as time goes on. Keep an eye out for our Launch Trailer in the coming days as well.
Read MoreSwim Buddies! Making a Splash this Summer in the App Store.
So, it’s hot. Really hot. I saw a mourning dove spontaneously combust yesterday afternoon after leaving his shady perch. But here in the Big Red Barn we’re cool, refreshed and ready to go for a dip with our new buddies app, Swim Buddies!.
Take a dip with some very special friends this Summer.
Not a game, not exactly educational, Swim Buddies! is about meeting, enjoying and learning a few fun facts about some wonderful, watery residents that capture our imagination and hopefully your little reader’s as well. As your underwater adventure takes you through more than a dozen finned friends, you will begin to feel the urge to kick off your shoes, pull on your bathing suit and run for the nearest pool, puddle or ocean. So ready your snorkel and look for Swim Buddies! later this month on iPad, iPhone and beyond.
Read MoreUpdate Melvin iPad: Swipe Response (Fixed!)
Update:
Update 2.1 to Melvin Says There’s Monsters is ready and heading upt to Apple this afternoon. Besides making the Swipes WAY more responsive, we added TAP Zones on the left and right. This way you can navigate forward and back through the pages with swipes or simply by tapping on the sides. Personally, I’m a big fan of tapping… Also added a few minor cosmetic and animation changes to round out the update. Swipe till you can’t swipe no more!
Swipe till you can't swipte no more!
The crew at Out to Play Interactive want you to know, your experience with our apps is mighty important to us. And that you smile when you find it, purchase it and play it, is our #1 goal.
Look for more exiting updates to our book engine in the coming weeks. We are also working hard to bring Melvin to the iPhone/Touch platforms. If you have any issues, concerns questions or comments, Do please leave me a note and I will personally get back to you as soon as possible.
Melvin was created with a lot of love, care and hard work. We plan to have a significant fix out later this week. Then Apple gets it for a few days, and then it ‘magically’ appears in the update section of your iTunes store. We appreciate your patience and if you have any questions, shoot us a note. When it runs smoothly, we know Melvin Says There’s Monsters! is one of the most entertaining and funny apps you can share with your child.
We’ll keep you up to date with when further updates are submitted to Apple!
Thanks,
Brendan Gallagher
Creative Director / CEO
Out to Play Interactive
email: support @ outtoplayinteractive.com
The Melvin Trailer is up!
If you have 45 secs to grow a smile, watch our App Trailer on You Tube, or better yet, stop by the App store and pick up the Lite version, to get a glimpse into Melvin’s world.
Read MoreLet the Games Begin….
So, one might imagine that the only area of interest for a Apple Developer is how many units of a new app are being sold. Not so. That’s simply economics. Sure, every company wants their latest offering to be a start in the marketplace, but what I personally find way more interesting is what customers think of our products. Almost exclusively, OTPI’s apps are downloaded by folks who I never get to hear from, learn how they enjoyed, or if they enjoyed our apps. If they were disappointed and how we might be able to address that in the next release or, and most self indulgently, that they and their child really, really, really enjoyed one of our apps. Talk about a payday.
It is also interesting to see what our host, Apple thinks of our work. This is a bit harder to gauge as it’s not likely that Mr. Jobs will pick up the phone, call our offices and give us an earful of love. One way a developer can tell one of their apps is in good standing with the mother-ship, is to be recognized in one or more of their ‘Featured’ categories. Well today, less than 24 hours after it hit the store, the ‘LITE’ version of Melvin Says There’s Monsters appeared in the ‘New and Noteworthy’ category for App Store Books. Yeah, that made my day.
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