Educational dexterity games, for children at Montessori nurseries and at home, produced by Heutink & Hape International. Modular games for 1 or 2 players, with increasing levels of difficulty, using larger cups to guide marbles on more complicated patterns.

Skribi was Gold Award winner in the Nursery World equipment awards, and is so successful on the educational market, that a home market product (Scribble Maze) was derived from it in 2015. Both games are fruits of my Industrial Design Master’s project, proving my early involvement with – and preference for – children’s products.

My role (all single-handedly):

• Extensive target group & market research (resulting in an invitation to publish in an ergonomics magazine)
• Ideation & design; prototyping & user testing; product presentation
• Licensing to international producers

Series of 9 extensive educational CD ROMs, for children at school and at home, produced at Mindscape – one of France’s leading producers & distributors of multimedia products for education & gaming.

The new series resulted in major international sale improvements – from 120 000 to 150 000 copies – up by 25 %.

My role:

• Ideation & development of new key modules; upgrading of existing ones
• Artistic direction; graphic design & animation; image & sound treatment
• Programming of specific elements

Special Karaoke edition for the Reader Rabbit CD-ROM series, produced for HMHLT at Mindscape – one of France’s leading producers & distributors of multimedia products for education & gaming.

My role:

• Graphic creation (incl. all icon design)
• Video, image & sound treatment
• Programming of specific elements

Second title of the Little Raven CD ROMs series, produced for renowned publisher Tivola at Morgenstudios (formerly BVM) – one of Germany’s leading producers of multimedia products for e.g. games, web portals, tv and films.

My role:

• Programming of many interactive and animated games
• Script writing (I contributed many small elements)
• Image & sound treatment

First title of the Xanti CD ROM series, produced for Kiddinx, at Morgenstudios (formerly BVM) – one of Germany’s leading producers of multimedia products for e.g. games, web portals, tv and films.

My role:

• Script writing (I conceived a new game)
• Image vectorisation, preparation & animation
• Programming of specific elements

Website Collins in a click, featuring a brand new interactive language learning experience, produced for HarperCollins at Galileo.

The audio-rich site teaches 6 languages (French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish) in 12 modules, and lets you e.g. record yourself to compare your pronunciation with that of a native speaker. Your results are saved, so you can always check your progress and redo any of the fun, game-like exercises.

My role:

• Programming of game-like, animated, audio-rich & self-sizing embedded exercises, lessons and tables; and embedded audio-players
• Linking the embedded elements to databases, web services, media servers (for audio streaming – record, modify and play), and external xml files, stylesheets, fonts, sound files & images

Website to teach children about eye sight in a fun way, by enabling them to see the world through other eyes (with optical defects, or as an animal, baby, or loved-up person); build optical devices like a camera obscura (with “how to” video tutorials); understand how the eye functions, and how optical defects can be corrected; try glasses on their own face; etc. Autonomous graduation project for my Multimedia Developer course in Bagnolet (France).

My role (all single-handedly):

• Ideation, storyboard, design & development
• Graphic design; animation; image & sound treatment
• Programming of the entire product

Tablet application for the BlackBerry PlayBook, to teach children fun frog facts, in a playful, animated and interactive way. The app features the frog’s metamorphosis, movement, sound, food, tongue, teeth, eyes, and their ability to “predict” the weather.

My role (all single-handedly):

• Ideation, design, development & app store publication
• Graphic design and animation
• Programming, in AS, with Blackberry & AIR SDKs

Ninth title of the TKKG CD ROM series, produced for renowned publisher Tivola at Morgenstudios (formerly BVM) – one of Germany’s leading producers of multimedia products for e.g. games, web portals, tv and films.

My role:

• Programming of the animated, condition-driven boat puzzle (single-handedly)
• Programming for the general navigation

Second title of the Watership Down CD ROM series, produced for Kiddinx at Morgenstudios (formerly BVM) – one of Germany’s leading producers of multimedia products for e.g. games, web portals, tv and films.

My role:

• Programming of game “Guess how many stones” (single-handedly)

Educational CD ROM to teach children English through the Helen Doron method, with 9 different scenes full of animated interactive activities. Graduation group-project for my Multimedia Design course in Berlin (Germany).

My role:

• Ideation, storyboard & design (single-handedly)
• Graphic design; animation; image & sound treatment
• Programming of entire product

Calming children’s CD ROM with 5 animated interactive scenes based on “The Little Prince” novel by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. One week 2-person project for my Multimedia Design course in Berlin (Germany).

My role:

• Ideation; design; animation; image & sound treatment
• Programming of entire product