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Helpful items to check for your kids at home (to be released soon)

written by Mac Funamizu

30 New Items

Hi. Thanks for using Checkie!

Checkie! will be updated with new items that have been requested by people around the world.

This time, the new items will help you as rather “to do list” than “check list”.

”Kids at Home” Items

These items are really helpful when you ask your kids at home alone to do various things. For example,

“Take in the clothes at 5 o’clock”
“Wash your hands and gargle, then you can have snacks"
“Put away your toys after playing with them”
“Feed the cat"
“Lock the door when you get home and do your homework”

The app starts automatically with a timer, so set the timer to the time when your child gets home or it’s time for snacks.

New Characters: Adult Male & Female

This is from requests by grownup users. This time we prepared a young couple.

And Even More New Items!

We added more items that have got most requests;
Rain Boots (clothes category)
TP (various items category)
Headband (clothes category)
Toy Sword (various items, kids at home categories)
Pajamas for Girl (clothes category)
Parakeet (various items, kids at home categories)
Lunch Napkin (elementary school category)
Purse (elementary school category)
Mechanical Pencil (business, elementary school categories)

Checkie! will be updated with more items and features. We’re looking forward to hearing your feedback!

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September 22, 2017 0 comment

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New app to be released soon!

written by Mac Funamizu

Hi!

Great news!
I’m excited to announce that we’ll release a new app for iPhone and iPad soon. It’s called “Bobbi Boo!”. It can be played by little kids and adults easily. Bobbi Boo! is for all of us to purely enjoy playing.

We’ll be releasing the details soon, so stay tuned!

August 5, 2017 0 comment

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Play Cut-Out for Checklist #2 Elementary School

written by Mac Funamizu

Hi! Hope you enjoy the app Checkie!

This is the second post of the paper cutout series of Checkie!; elementary school items! Download the PDF, cut out the items and characters and make your outing style!

You can also paste it on the calendar to show items to bring on each day.

We’ll post the third paper soon. Stay tuned!

Of course you can download Checkie! and make a list in the app.

July 6, 2017 0 comment

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SUM! Complete Walk-through

written by Mac Funamizu

What is SUM! ?

SUM! is a very simple game. Make as many 10s as you can! That’s it.

Find a combination to make a 10. Drag one ball to the other. When a 10 is made, it’ll disappear.
Tap a ball twice and it splits into 2 balls.

When the screen is full of balls, the game is over.

Little kids can play SUM! almost as well as adults, so it’s a great game to enjoy competing together.

SUM! has been very popular since its release in 2016 and it ranked No.1 as a paid app for kids (5-8) in the App Store in Japan (June 2016).

Reviews

“A Cute and Brilliant Approach to Introducing Early Math Concepts”
– Geeks With Juniors

Tips to get high scores

1. Combos

Combo is a technique to make 10s consecutively, without splitting balls or making other numbers. Keep making 10s and you get the score doubled, tripled until 10 times higher than the usual 10 points.

Throughout the game, when the big numbers like 7 to 9 appear, it is dangerous because they take up lots of space! So it is the most popular combo tips to keep small numbers in stock from 1 to 3 so when large figures appear, you can add them to those large ones quickly so you get more combos easily. Try it!

2. Sound

When a ball falls from above, it shouts its own number. As you get used to the voices, you will be able to figure out which number has appeared even if you don’t see it and you can find a pair that makes 10 very quickly. This technique is not known very much, but many of the people who get super high scores listen to the sounds of the characters.

3. Decide the timing to give up combos

You can earn good points with combos, but you cannot keep going forever. You have to give up the combo and make other figures when you get lots of balls in the screen. The background of the game screen is divided into four blue areas. This is to make it easy for you to know the point of danger “if the figure comes up to here, it is dangerous”. Users who score more than 10,000 points often seem to give up combos when the balls accumulate in the second area from the top, but until your score reaches that high, it is good to make it up to around the middle.

Best way to pile up the balls (Advanced technique）

Because all characters are round, gaps are made as you stack them up, but in fact you can fill small balls in these gaps. If you do not want to waste any space at all, try to fill in the gaps with small numbers stacked on top. Though it’s just a little, you can create some new space above!

Current highest score

As of June 23rd, 113,370 points are the highest score! Recently, everyone’s level is coming up, records are steadily updating. Check out the game center!

Children can do the addition faster & adults get their brains activated!

Keep playing SUM!, and you will be able to find a pair that makes 10 at a glance. There is a fun blog post written by a mom of a first grader of elementary school who plays with SUM! every day, saying the speed of the calculation went up!
「日に日に計算スピードアップ」(blog in Japanese)

For even younger kids

For younger children who cannot catch up with speed of the game, they can play with character introduction movies, where number characters do funny dances. Tap them to enjoy two kinds of animation for each.

In the update on 1st June, new animations of the characters were added. If you haven’t seen the movies for a while, please try it!

You can now see the whole animations on the website, too! (Recommended to see on desktop PC)
http://enfani.com/games/summies/

3 International Design Awards

SUM! has been awarded three international design awards:

Red dot communication award 2016
Digital Picture Book Award 2017
Muse Creative Award -Platinum 2016
And it will evolve even more!

More tips to enjoy SUM!

When you pause the game, you see a sleeping character in the middle of the screen. Try tap it!

Try these techniques and let me know if you find any new ones!!

Download SUM!

June 24, 2017 0 comment

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Elementary School Schedule Check with New Cute Items

written by Mac Funamizu

40+ Elementary School Items

Thanks for using Checkie!

We have received so much more item requests than we’d expected, so it’s great to know Checkie! is needed by many many people around the world.

Now, big update!

More than 40 Items related to elementary school and clothes have been added!!

School Items (Thanks for waiting!)

Lots of cute textbooks images are included (both Japanese and English) along with items needed for school life.

Now you can have a picture school schedule (“jikanwari” in Japanese) for each day!

This has been a big request from users in Japan.

New background: plain (no animal character)

This plain background has been requested by our users with impaired color vision.

And Even More New Items!

The other newly added items are:
Folding umbrella (various)
Sunglasses (clothes)
Folded laundry (clothes)
Socks (clothes)
Elementary school (locations)

Hope Checkie! helps your kids’ busy school days.

We’re still working hard to make the app even better, so if you have requests/comments, please do let us know!

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June 3, 2017 0 comment

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Won Digital Picture Book Awards!

written by Mac Funamizu

Big news!

Our SUM! character animation won 5th Digital Ehon (picture book) Award!

Hooray!

SUM! was selected from among about 300 works from 32 countries, so this was a huge achievement and a huge honor.

We attended the award ceremony on Saturday in Tokyo.

Here is a photo of me after receiving the award!

The animation movies are not the main content of our SUM! app, but it’s actually popular as an interactive digital book for little kids.

We’ve heard that some children like the app because of this animation, which makes me extremely happy that so many children are connecting with the characters and love them so much.

SUM! characters are very popular, probably because the movies make the monsters seem alive!?

Looking forward to continuing to grow and improve SUM! and to make kids (and parents!) enjoy playing games with our Enfani platform.

http://www.digitalehonaward.net/

May 28, 2017 0 comment

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Play Cut-Out for Checklist #1

written by Mac Funamizu

Hi! Hope you enjoy the app Checkie!
We’ll be posting paper cutouts you can play with for your checklist and this is the first one; items for kindergarten and makeups! Yes, this is the paper version of the app Checkie!. Download the PDF, cut out the items and characters and make your outing style!

You can also paste it on the calendar to show items to bring on each day.

We’ll post the second paper soon. Stay tuned!

Of course you can download Checkie! and make a list in the app.

May 21, 2017 0 comment

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Popular math app to get huge update!?

written by Mac Funamizu

For those who don’t know Enfani’s first iPhone app “SUM!”, it’s a very fun math game that teaches the concept of addition through play. Drag a number monster to another and you’ll get a bigger one. When you make a 10, it disappears. So try to make 10s as fast as you can before the bubbles fill the screen.

Mistake? That’s OK. Just double-tap a ball and it will break down again into smaller ones.

SUM! has been very popular since its release last year. It often appears in the top page of the AppStore as a featured app.
And here’s some good news! SUM! is now on sale and you can get it for free! Oh and of course as the title says, the app will have a huge update soon. I can’t say it yet, but something very exciting will happen in the app!

May 11, 2017 0 comment

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Checkie! Updates #3/3 New Items

written by Mac Funamizu

Hi! Here is the final post of the 3 part series of new Checkie! Updates.

Paid Items

Food & Travel
We hear some people use Checkie! as a shopping list, so we added a lot of food items. You can now have several checklists ready for various recipes! And of course, we now have lots of travel items so you can prepare for vacation & business trips.

Computers & Tools
Devices such as smartphones, PCs, cameras, watches and related items are available for the tech savvy.
If you often use DIY, gardening, cleaning or sewing items, you’ll definitely need this item set!

Various & Locations
There are various other items such as keys, flowers, umbrella, money, tobacco and even pets (dog & cat), etc.
Location images appear in the back of the characters (you don’t have to tap it in the check screen). There are images like shower, toilet, bed, sink, desk, kitchen, etc. With these images, for example, you can remind your child to brush their teeth (items) and go to the bathroom (location) at 8:30 (timer). This set of images will expand the way you use Checkie! for sure!

Item Request

Need more items? Sure! Let us hear what you want for Checkie! in the ‘Item Request’ page. We’ll be adding new items continuously so we would love to hear from you!

Well, that’s about it, but I’m sure you’ll discover fun and unique ways to use the app. We really hope Checkie! helps you have great days with nothing left behind. Enjoy the app and let us hear what you think on the app review! Thanks!

Mac

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May 10, 2017 0 comment

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Checkie! Updates #2/3

written by Mac Funamizu

New Checkie! is now on App Store!

Hello! New Checkie! has been released on App Store!
Here is the 2nd post of our new Checkie! Update!

Check your items at any time

In the new version, you can simply select a saved check list to start your checking. So you don’t have to set the time. With this new feature, Checkie! is a lot more helpful for so many scenes of your daily life.

This means that you can have a lot wider variety of checklists ready at hand for events, even if you don’t know when they will happen. Such as;
-“Veggie grocery shopping” – when you suddenly decide to do some shopping at the grocery store
-“Baby outing” – when you decide to go out with your baby and you want a quick checklist to make sure you don’t forget any necessary items.