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HTML5 Interactive Game Design
Funny Garbage created a series of HTML5 games for Houghton Mifflin Harcourt to encourage engagement in the story of Curious George’s world. FG used JavaScript and the HTML5 Canvas to create a game that works equally well on a desktop or tablet for kids to enjoy anywhere.
George's Neighborhood: an interactive game where children seek hidden people and objects throughout George's neighborhood.
Socor Mini-Golf: an interactive game where children kick a soccor ball into goals on a mini-golf course.
George's Neighborhood combines the fun of the Curious George’s lift-the-flaps book with compelling gameplay of classics like "Hide-and-Seek," and "Where's Waldo?” Players begin by exploring the neighborhood with George by panning left and right in this big interactive tableau, and are then prompted to find an object or a person hidden in the scene for each of ten randomly generated missions. This endlessly exploratory game offers unique combinations of gameplay every time the player returns.
In Soccer Mini Golf, players improve motor skills by learning how to kick soccer balls into a series of "goals". Using a mechanism similar to Angry Birds, players get three chances to shoot the ball into an assigned goal such as a rabbit hole or a chimney that are placed throughout the mini-golf course. Players earn points by hitting the goal or get a strike if they miss three times. Gameplay is enhanced by fun special effects and sounds that give feedback throughout the game.
Implementation:
- Desktop
- Tablet Compatible