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Specialneeds.com Very special review

ocgstudios — Tue, 01 May 2012 19:26:12 +0000

Roxie’s A-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure is gender-neutral, so really any child will enjoy playing the game. In addition to the maze games, the app teaches looking for patterns, identifying letters and numbers, reading a map, and solving problems. It is an app that provides a well-rounded educational experience in an engaging atmosphere, and it features background music from pop to funky sounds.

One mother of a special needs child says, “To illustrate just how amazing this app truly is, I will share a quick story. While on a night-time plane trip recently, my son looked out the window and exclaimed ‘Wow, I can make out letters from all of the street lights below us. Just like in Roxie’s app!’ He and his younger sister spent the rest of the very tedious plane trip playing their own version of this app that they called ‘Roxie’s amazing plane trip’ and trying to find letters in the street light patterns below. All I can say is Wow!!!”

Check it out http://www.specialneeds.com/products-and-services/general-special-needs/app-day-roxie-s-maze-ing-vacation-adventu

Recommended app by the Horn Book

ocgstudios — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:57:45 +0000

Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure is one of the 17 top apps selected over the last 2 years by the Horn Book. The Horn Book Magazine and The Horn Book Guide are the most distinguished journals in the field of children’s and young adult literature.

http://www.hbook.com/2012/03/choosing-books/recommended-books/recommended-apps/

Big update Roxie’s Doors

ocgstudios — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:33:55 +0000

Roxie’s Doors is available now with a new 10th page, The Castle. This is a door of a different kind, update or purchase Doors and it will open your mind.

Itunes: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roxies-doors/id450154138?l=nl&ls=1&mt=8

Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing won second place “Best Kids Game 2011″

ocgstudios — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:51:27 +0000

We at OCG Studios are extremely proud that Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure has won the second place in the best kids game category at the BestAppEver award in the US.

Check it out here http://bestappever.com/awards/2011/winner/kdgm

Kids app of the year nominee, please vote

ocgstudios — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 21:49:22 +0000

Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing vacation Adventure is nominated for Kids Game of the year by BestAppEver from 148apps.com a leading iPhone/iPad review site.

Please vote for us and make a-MAZE-ing 2011 Kids Game of the year, thank you all.

You can vote here: http://bestappever.com/v/kdgm

Vote for Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Ad… for Best Kids Game

Digital Storytime 5 star Doors review

ocgstudios — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:09:53 +0000

Last year Digital StoryTime only awarded 30 apps with 5 stars of the hundreds they reviewed, Roxie’s Doors got 5 stars and Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure 4.75.

“ Based on Doors, a popular lift-the-flap print book, Roxie’s Doors makes the digital transition so beautifully, it’s hard to believe it wasn’t originally designed for the iPad. There are over “50 flaps to lift & explore”, bringing new discoveries on every page. The illustrations are delightful and so detailed that you notice something new with every re-reading”

http://digital-storytime.com/review.php?search=Roxie%27s+Doors

Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventures for the iPhone available

ocgstudios — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 21:21:21 +0000

Finally the iPhone version of our a-Maze-ing app is available in the Appstore. After months of hard work we have translated the app from big screen to small screen, without any compromises.

It works on Iphone 3G and up, Ipod Touch 3rd gen and up, iOs 4.2 and up.

The iPhone version contains all iPad features and we added Game Center support for 16 extra achievements.

We even have a special introductory offer of $0,99 or € 0.79

Get it now and tell all your friends and family

Making of: From big to small

ocgstudios — Tue, 22 Nov 2011 22:22:12 +0000

“Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure” for the iPad was ready in April. We quickly sold in more than 70 countries and was awarded with “New and Noteworthy,” “What’s Hot,” and “Staff Favorite” in many itunes stores around the globe.

We always had the iphone in the back of our minds but a-MAZE-ing was developed for the big screen ipad, so in August we decided to give the iphone version a try. A lot of people have asked us for it. So we first had to figure out how we could translate this huge maze onto a much smaller screen. We knew we couldn’t keep the same screen size as the ipad – the details would be much too small. Our gameplay requires that you move from one to page to another, but each page was much too big.

The first thing we tried was to keep the car centered and move the maze. The car would be the correct size for a “small” finger. This would define the size of the maze behind the car. On the original ipad we have 16 different screens where you have to drive, fly, ski and raft your way around the maze and find a lot of things during your trip. On the iphone we divided each screen in 4 pieces – the iphone has a different screen resolution and a different aspect ratio than the ipad.

Here the first real big difference started to appear: the iphone 4 has almost the same screen resolution as the ipad but much smaller screen, called the Retina screen. Our iphone app requires double the resolution from the ipad because we are zoomed in much more. There is the iphone 4(s) with the Retina screen, but there is also the iphone 3G and 3GS.

The older iphone has only 25% of iPhone 4 screen resolution, but you need to support this iphone to because a lot of people are still using the iPhone 3GS. So internally the iphone version has different screens for the different phones. Another big problem for us was the difference of internal memory on the different iphones – the iphone 4 has 512 mb, the 3GS 256 mb and the 3G 128mb, so we had to change a lot to compensate for these differences.

Since the screen size is limited, we also had to figure out what to do with the menu on our screens. This menu shows the things you have to find, and some buttons. It took us a while to figure out the best size for the menu and keep the search items recognizable.

Still the menu took a lot of screen space, so we decided that you could hide the menu and keep the maze full screen. This way we could also add a zoom-in and zoom-out, a much requested feature from the ipad version. On the iphone you drive around, but you can also pan around because a lot of the things you have to find are away from the main roads. This generated another problem, how to get back to your car. When you move around looking for hidden items you will find a small car icon on the top-left corner which brings you directly back to your car. This also gives you an excellent way to always find your car quickly.

So it took us a couple of months, together with a dozen other projects, to finish the iphone version. I hope you enjoyed reading our making of and our apps.

Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventures for iphone, coming soon

ocgstudios — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:57:53 +0000

Today we have submitted the iphone version of Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure into the Apple App Store, so it should be available within a week.

Here you see the first screenshot, it took a long time to translate a big screen ipad app into a fun and functional ipod/iphone app. We will update the making -off the coming week to show you all the problems we encountered. We have added Game Center support for extra achievements. We will keep you posted.

Update 1.1 for Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure

ocgstudios — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 19:03:04 +0000

The update 1.1 for Roxie’s a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure is available in the app store. We have added a much requested map overview, new search spots and animations,a little more explanation and some minor bug fixes.

We hope you enjoy this update, get it here.

Roxie’s Doors New and Noteworthy in 103 Appstores

ocgstudios — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 06:39:48 +0000

A very nice waking up this morning Roxie’s Doors is “New and Noteworthy” in 94 – small correction- 103 AppStores around the world.

Great quote from “Andtwinsmake5″

ocgstudios — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 20:02:59 +0000

Roxie’s A-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure (by OCG Studios): It is absolutely incredible what some creative people can make possible all within the confines of an iPad app. The format of this app is like nothing you’ve ever seen before. The creators bring you a single continuous maze that spreads out over 16 iPad screens compelling you to drive, walk, fly, ski and raft about it as you search for needed letters, numbers, penguins and dozens of other items. Don’t even get my started on those tricky penguins! Our kids range in age from 16 all the way down to age 3 and it is beyond funny to see how each reacted as they tried to make their way around and hunt for all the items. I have to warn you, once you stop you’ll have a hard time putting it down.

http://andtwinsmake5.blogspot.com/2011/08/top-ipad-iphone-apps-for-kids-august.html

Roxie’s Doors Reviews

ocgstudios — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 13:53:11 +0000

Roxie’s Doors is available for a week now and the first reviews are in, check them out here.

Roxie’s Doors available in the App Store

ocgstudios — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 13:13:02 +0000

After a long wait, Roxie’s Doors is finally available in the AppStore. Roxie’s Doors is a lift-the-flap 3D search and find book for all ages.

You can read some more on the Roxie’s Doors page

Get it here and have fun. Only $2,99 or €2,39.

Trailer for Roxie’s Doors

ocgstudios — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 21:04:20 +0000

Roxie’s Doors is approved and will be available within a couple of hours.
Here you can watch the trailer for the Roxie’s Doors app.