Presentation

The project

Little Thinking Minds (LTM) is a society based in Amman, Jordan. They wanted to create a free iPad application to teach the basics of the Arabic alphabet to children from 4 to 6 years. They gathered 15 000 dollars in a crowdfunding campaign for this project. LTM is a structure that has existed for over 10 years and has produced many educational audiovisual programs. Lamia and Rama, the two founders and producers of LTM, had already designed applications (some of which have been downloaded more than 70,000 times) but their content was not strictly speaking gamified. This limited the lifetime of their applications and originality of their proposal.

The mission

In the mark of a partnership between LTM and Canal France International, I joined the LTM team during 4 days in order to completely rethink their future application and make it more playful.

Website : www.littlethinkingminds.com/en

Function

• Prioritization of educational goals
• Creation of a diverse and coherent system of rewards
• Creation of mechanical design adapted to games for 4 to 6 years old
• Proposal of a sound design application
• Creation of a “parent-space” for adults to follow the progress of their children
• Creation of a custom Game Design Document
• Establishment of a production schedule
• Creation of a test protocol for the game