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The pair took it to Snowman's leadershipвЂ”Ryan Cash and Jordan RosenbergвЂ”and began to talk about expanding it as a mobile app.When Pok Pok CEO and co-founder Melissa Cash (a veteran designer of baby and toddler products who spent time at Disney before joining her brother at Snowman) crossed paths with Huybreghts and Demaeght, lightning struck, and everyone involved decided this app needed its own company to support it.'We realized that something we're really passionate about is creative learning and creative thinking,' Cash explained to Game Developer. Demaeght was working as an artist at Alto's Oddysey developer Snowman, and both he and Huybreghts are classically trained animators.The first prototype was kind of a digital animated storybook without the story, like the kinds of books with tactile tabs and physical objects that teach kids about interaction, touch, or sound. They needed something interactive that didn't have levels (he didn't know what a level was), with few menus (he couldn't read!), and that he could use with little parental assistance.They couldn't find any games like thatвЂ”so they got to work on making their own. They're a husband-and-wife game development duo who were looking for a new form of screen time for their two-year-old son.

Some of the new ones double as an introduction to concepts like magnetism, electricity, and gravity for older players.A physical Busy Board can only do what an object is physically designed to do, but in the digital space, they can do a lot more than that. In Pok Pok Playroom's Busy Board, kids can interact with digital versions of these objects. It's like a real busy board: a collection of doodads and interactable objects that entertain toddlers by giving them objects to 'do' things with. It proved to be the design formula that would shape the app's futureвЂ”putting Pok Pok Playroom in the hands of kids helps its creators understand what the game actually is.Take the Busy Board (which debuts some new playful objects today as part of the app's monthly free updates). But our first screens were the TV, not a tablet or phone.''We sort of realized this digital storybook Esther had started could be a lot more than that.' Huybreghts (left) and Cash (right) during a pre-COVID design sessionBefore Pok Pok even landed its own company, Cash had flown out to Belgium to spend time with Huybreghts' and Demaeght's kids.

And when asked how the team makes them without over-or-under-thinking the objects, Huybreghts laughed and deadpanned that 'over-scoping is one of our issues.''Whenever we kick off a brainstorm for a new toy or update to an existing toy, we always have to scope down because we are dreaming big constantly. The hope is that apps like Pok Pok have more lasting power because they're closer to physical toys than a game that ends as soon as a challenge is completed.Huybreghts made a comparison with LEGO bricksвЂ”two-year-olds just bash them about, connect a few, or knock them over, but those bricks have staying power because as a child ages, they can use them to build structures or assemble them into storytelling tools.'A huge part of our experiment during playtesting (which ran three years before Pok Pok Playroom landed on the iOS App Store) was to make sure it doesn't become something that a parent has to delete off their device and consider a waste of money because their kid only played with it for two weeks,' Cash said.What do kids actually want to do in games, anyway?Making digital objects with deep mechanics that might not be uncovered for years demands a lot of work. A lot of games 'for' kids will feature conventional game design mechanicsвЂ”levels, combat, traversalвЂ”just scaled down in difficulty and with a cartoonish aesthetic. There's no flashing 'congratulations' when you reach some goal.'That's a big difference from other kinds of kid's games from throughout the relatively short history of game development, Cash pointed out. 'There are no reward systems because it's open-ended.

It's also provided some really wild insight during playtesting with actual kid users. 'Having that agency is a really critical part of developing creative thinking skills.'The little discoveries that kids make in their lives (Cash pantomimed a toddler picking up a book and telling their parent 'look what I found') can make a great foundation for all the different toys of Pok Pok. 'Most toddlers don't get to make very many choices on her own,' Cash said. Lots of games will feature talking animals that are friends with each other, or bring in fantastic or sci-fi elements (even The Muppets or Frozen-inspired games might be guilty of this). While some elements like a drawing app or a sound toy are a bit more abstract, Cash said the team deliberately used objects in kids' worlds, because kids 'find so much excitement, joy, simulation, and interest in the day-to-day.'And that design direction is another thing Cash said is missing from the space of games for kids.

Both games use more open-ended mechanics to sell more agency in the world of a fantasy adventure, but it's fascinating to learn that the same lanes of thinking are working for kids too.Thankfully kids don't need Dishonored's Mark of the Outsider to make their own adventureвЂ”they can find it all just by banging on a Busy Board and seeing what comes out. Pok Pok Playroom's 'House' toy.'We really wanted to take the opportunity to highlight what's really important to us and for the next generation,' Cash said, 'which is seeing families of all abilities, genders, family constructs, races, coexisting in a beautiful way.'For many young Pok Pok players, that means the game shows real, evolving objects in world that probably looks like the one they're growing up withвЂ”which doesn't feature too many talking animals.Hearing Huybreghts and Cash describe their work felt unusually similar to what's been said by the developers behind games like Dishonored, or seen through Nintendo's evolution of the Legend of Zelda series with Breath of the Wild.

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