Kickstarter

The session will explore how Elan and the Exploding Kittens team approach game design, including looking at their work with the inventor community.

Kickstarter designer Ross Atkin on where crowdfunders go wrong, the skills you don’t learn at university… And robots. Lots of robots!

The Jigsaw Puzzle Coffee Table is ‘the first and only coffee table that can’t actually be used until you solve the jigsaw puzzle surface’.

OjO’s Petros Nicolaou and Surya Dhir tell us more about how the STREAME-focused firm tackles game design.

Firm looks to combine ‘the traditional jigsaw puzzle experience with ideas from the worlds of tabletop games and magic’.

The range was launched with a Kickstarter campaign on April 24th and achieved its funding goal in just 13 minutes.

With a few days left of the campaign (which has raised just over €52,000 at the time of writing), we caught up with Melbot CEO Ivan Expósito to find out what it was like running a successful Kickstarter campaign in the midst of a global pandemic.

As the toy hits Kickstarter, we caught up with Hayri and Oscar to learn more about the development process behind Cody Block, and why play is such a great means of helping children grasp the ins and outs of coding.

“My aim is to create a toy that blends classic wooden toys with electronics and helps kids navigate this increasingly digital world,” said Hayri Bulman, founder of QUBS.

The toy sees children catch seeds, incubate them in the POD before nurturing and evolving their pets into fully-formed customisable creatures called Melbits.