Look & Call
About Look & Call
The client is an individual who came to us with a unique concept for an iPhone application that revolved around offering a fun way of helping children learn the names of their favorite animals, through the sounds they make, and also from their pictures.
Opportunity
The client wanted to give shape to an original idea, that featured animal sounds and pictures. The client’s idea was to offer a fun way of introducing the importance of language, by helping children learn the names of various animals. The client put PLAVEB in charge of designing and developing a multilingual iPhone app, using real life sounds and photos of birds and animals, to help children learn their names. The focus of the application was to engage the child’s attention, by bringing the concept to life with rich graphics, and providing a high degree of interactivity.
Challenges
The basic challenge was identifying and programming the various features, to ensure highly interactive game play.
Games Section
- Integrating 60 real life animal sounds and pictures into the application.
- Designing a game mode to allow children to look at pictures of animals, listen to their sounds, and guess their names; and enabling the animal name to be revealed through the ‘Next’ button, or by shaking the iPhone; also providing a replay option, to be used if the child misses a sound.
Toy Section
- Designing and developing a ‘Toy’ mode, wherein users can explore the application and its use, by choosing from 4 categories – Wild Animals; Farm Animals; Birds; and Reptiles, Insects and Sea Life.
- Implementing options, such as 'SPIN' or 'SHAKE,' for continuous game play.
- Implementation of roulette-like game play, that offers accelerometer functionality.
- Integrating multilingual capabilities (English, Spanish and French).
Execution
The seamless execution of this project was an outcome of PLAVEB’s expertise and experience on the iOS SDK framework. Because we were fully conversant of the client’s concept, and had conducted an in-depth requirement gathering and analysis process, enabled the project to be completed quickly. In addition, the application's submission to the App Store was also accepted quickly.
Results
PLAVEB brought the client’s concept to life, by integrating the various features needed to create the vibrancy and interactivity required to make this type of application successful. The quality and functionality of the application was confirmed by acceptance from the App Store, where it is currently for sale. This gaming application functions impeccably in all of its modes, and has a captivating look and feel that makes it compelling for both children and adults alike.
Technical Details
This application was developed on the iOS 4 platform, within a Cocoa Framework using xCode, Objective C, and SQLite relational database management system, to make it extremely iPhone compatible. We also used ‘accelerometer’ software, to implement the requisite game play functionality.