SUM! – Math with Cute Numbers! was featured as “Today’s App” in iOS App Store in Japan on May 9th!
あんふぁにはこれまでスマホやタブレットの人気アプリを開発してきましたが、もっとたくさんに人に楽しんでもらいたい！ という願いから、小さな画面から飛び出し、プロジェクションマッピングの大きな舞台で子供も大人も一緒にプレイできるようなゲームを開発します！ 今回のゲームは、考えながら、協力しながら遊ぶことで、子供達の創造力を育みます！
You can now choose Lubicchi, the leading character of the book, as your avatar for the app. Tap the right arrow to the end and you’ll find this loving character.
Turn on the BGM for the time and you’ll hear the theme song of Poupelle Of Chimney Town! Enjoy preparing for school and singing along!
If you already have SUM!, update the app now!
“Poupelle Of Chimney Town” is available free on the website.
http://poupelle-multilingual.com/poupeiie-of-chimneytown/http://spotlight-media.jp/article/370505056378315909
Start a game and you’ll notice that the BGM is different! Yes, it’s the theme song of Poupelle Of Chimney Town! Enjoy playing the game while singing along it.
Make a 10 and you see … yes, Lubicchi!!
If you already have SUM!, update the app now!
“Poupelle Of Chimney Town” is available free on the website.
http://poupelle-multilingual.com/poupeiie-of-chimneytown/http://spotlight-media.jp/article/370505056378315909
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”.
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.
This is from requests by grownup users. This time we prepared a young couple.
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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Checkie! – Image Based Checklist App on iPhone & iPad
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!
See also the first post of the cutout (kindergarten & makeup).
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.
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).
“A Cute and Brilliant Approach to Introducing Early Math Concepts”
– Geeks With Juniors
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!
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.
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.
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!
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!
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 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/
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!
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!!
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!!
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.
This plain background has been requested by our users with impaired color vision.
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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Checkie! – Image Based Checklist App on iPhone & iPad
