There are a lot of chil­dren’s games on the App Store. There are also almost as many bad chil­dren’s games filled to the brim with adver­tis­ing, in-app-pur­chas­es and links to Face­book and Twitter.

When we start­ed talk­ing about mak­ing a game adapt­ed for chil­dren, we agreed that in that case it would be with­out adver­tis­ing, not have any IAP, and be free from links to exter­nal resources such as Face­book and Twitter.

The plan was to make a well-pol­ished and fair­ly sim­ple game that lasts a long time. The result was a game with 24 fun ani­mals on adven­ture. First off are two dif­fer­ent ​“games-in-games”.

Inter­face with big sym­bols and lit­tle text

We have also tried to make an inter­face that con­tains as lit­tle text as pos­si­ble, both because chil­dren have much eas­i­er to absorb sym­bols and images but also to make the game more inter­na­tion­al.

Both the num­ber of pieces in the puz­zle and the num­ber of cards in the memo game can be set to suit the play­er. You can also turn on / off both rota­tion and puz­zle help as well as tim­ing to give the game an addi­tion­al dimen­sion where you also try to beat your best time.

For both Ipad and Iphone

We think that the game is main­ly com­ing to life on an iPad, so we have put a lit­tle extra effort into cus­tomiz­ing the app for iPad. It also means that you can choose to play with more cards in memo and have more puz­zle pieces in the puzzle.

If you turn on the rota­tion and remove the puz­zle help, 48 pieces will reach quite a dis­tance up the ages. If you then add some puz­zle pic­tures you can cus­tomize the game even for the slight­ly old­er children.

Down­load ​“Ani­mals on Adven­tures” from the App Store

You can buy the game from the App Store if you – or your kids – want to try it out.