Sorry, this article is only in Japanese.
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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Checkie! – Image Based Checklist App on iPhone & iPad
Checkie! – Image based carrying list app
Category: Designs to support comfortable raising of children
Enfani’s popular app Checkie! received the Kids Design Award 2017 (Supported by The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry)!
Though we have received several international awards already, this is our first ‘national’ award.
Checkie! is getting popular again especially in China and we’re receiving lots of requests of items and characters. So the app will be updated with new items and figures soon! Please stay tuned!
More about Checkie!
http://enfani.jp/en/original/checkie/
Kids Design Award 2017
http://www.kidsdesignaward.jp/2017/index.html
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!
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!
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.
For a regular Checkie! reminder, where you need to set a timer, you can set the push notification to open the check page from the lock screen.
Free Items
Here are the items you can use by default. Baby, school, clothes, events, sports, makeup/sanitary, business and senior.
Resize Items!
Items can be resized! Make every item fit the character you choose.
In the next post, we’ll introduce the paid items!
Please do let me know if you have any questions!
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