Yesterday we voice recorded two of our storybook apps – “A Shark Knocked on the Door” and “Maggie Is Afraid of Monsters”. We were super lucky to find two fantastic voice actors – a boy named Donovan for Shark, and Jessica Rau (@JessicaRauVoice) who narrated Maggie and a few more voices and “efforts” (vocal sound…
We spend a lot of time with our heads buried in our keyboards and screens around here, so we sometimes forget that a lot of people are doing the same thing we’re doing. Real live people who we could talk to about the pros and cons of app-making if we were to go somewhere where…
We have four days to go on our Kickstarter — kck.st/1ndnZY1 — and we’re biting our nails a little! People have been generous and awesome with their pledges and with sharing on facebook and twitter, but we still need almost $3000 before we can call it a success and start fulfilling rewards. That’s one of…
What does it feel like to be 48 hours away from a Kickstarter launch? In a word, nervewracking! We’ve been working towards this day for a long while now, and we think we’re pretty prepared. But we also aren’t so naive that we don’t expect to hit some roadblocks and hurdles in this next month….
Last week I wrote a post about interactive storybook apps, what that means and what they are, after realizing that not everybody was familiar with them. Now I’d like to talk about Kickstarter and crowdfunding for the same reason. We’ve been so focused on getting ready for our Kickstarter campaign that we’ve neglected to realize…
We’re gearing up to do a Kickstarter at the end of January for our interactive storybook apps, and around here we’ve been talking a lot about what to reward people with at certain price levels. A lot of our ideas are the same as other artists offer: books, posters, t-shirts. And our books, posters and…
Sometimes when you’re doing creative things, whether it’s writing a book or a play or designing a product you think will solve people’s problems, what might be very clear to you about what you’re doing is often not so clear to others. Just so that doesn’t happen with our storybook apps, I thought I’d…
We like books. And burningthroughpages.org seems like a pretty great organization.
I’ll admit, Pinterest started out as a bit of a mystery to me. I came up in the world of pre-Tumblr blogs where people wrote about original things, from their own heads, with their own images. Using words and lots of them. An occasional picture was a nice accompaniment, but it wasn’t the main thrust…
Many, many (many, many) different things go into the making of an app, and in the last entry I started off talking about writing, and so next I should probably get into programming, or illustrators, or funding. But I won’t yet. Because there’s something that’s just as important – maybe even more important – as…