Stories + Games + Education

The Deskplorers “Jump in a Book” series: a unique interactive experience combining stories and games, with real educational values.

Kids love nice stories, with heroes and emotions! But in front on the TV they don’t interact…

Kids love to play fun video-games, but many games don’t bring the educational value parents would hope for.

Combining Stories, Games and Education has been at the core foundation of our game design.

The game is very simple: Read the Story, Play the Mini-Games, Unlock the Chapters!

	Read the Story There are 6 chapters per episode Each episode contains more than 200 images and 6 animations, background music and sound effects, providing a rich entertaining experience for the kids. The dialogs are easy to read with or without the parents help. Each episode is a full story, divided into 6 chapters. At the end of a chapter, The Deskplorers will need help! They won’t be able to go any further until the player finds an object to unlock the chapter and continue with the story!
	Find the right objects to help the Deskplorers Browse the catalog and read the descriptions… There are many more objects than you need and you have to find the right one. If you think an object is right for the current chapter, cut it out, drag it to the box on the left, and go back to the story to see if you chose the right object! But, to cut an object, you need points! And to win points, you need to play the mini-games!
	Play the mini-games Win points! There are 3 mini-games to choose from. You can play them in an “easy” mode or “normal” mode (the normal mode is more difficult, but offers more points when you win !-). Each game session is limited to 1 minute, but you can play as many times as you want!

4 mini-games available, 2 difficulty levels per mini-game.

	Defend Lea’s Card Castle from Bratty’s assault… Slide over the paper balls to throw them back and win points. Tap on Bratty, Brutus and Moody so they don’t reach Lea’s Card Castle!
	Dance in rhythm with Scrabot ! Tap and slide on the screen following the beat of the music to win points. If you miss a beat, the music loses some musical notes! Don’t tap on a black symbol beat, it will turn a spotlight off!
	Help Tom absorb Bratty’s cells and avoid those from Brutus… Put your device flat and tilt it in the 4 directions to catch Bratty’s cells and win points. Avoid the big Brutus cells, and use the “shake” bonus!
	Help Spoon catch the good food, and avoid sweets! Tilt your device left and right to move Spoon and win points. Avoid the sweets, and don’t miss one protein!

Educational values
	The Deskplorers help your kids to READ, and to UNDERSTAND the meaning of the sentences. The Deskplorers promote creative THINKING and problem solving (understand the dialogs, read the object descriptions, Tom’s feedback…) You can reinforce the understanding on a FOREIGN LANGUAGE: when a chapter is unlocked, you can switch the dialogs between available languages (available now: FRENCH, coming soon: German, Italian and Spanish). Finally, in Season One “Jump in Time”, The Deskplorers help your kids lean more about HISTORY.

Additional features
	My Profile Unlock images in each chapter, they are stored in your device photo album to send them to your friends. Win medals, don’t use the “solution” objects!
	Dictionary Find useful information about the background of each story.
	Album Play again the “end of chapter” videos.
	3 profiles On each device, the progression and results of 3 kids can be saved.
	Parents’ corner Parents can reset the profiles, read advice to better use the game, post to their Facebook wall… more features to come!