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"Roxie's Puzzle Adventure" has been selected as one of the
12 Most Addictive Games for the iPhone for 2018!!!
Click here: https://www.agent.media/tech/12-most-addictive-games-for-iphone/
All of the "Roxie" apps and all of the KIWi (Kids Interactive Walk-in) Storybook apps
were built by the excellent team at OCG Studios ( http://www.ocgstudios.com/ ),
who also have done many other great children's book apps.



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Now in the App Store,
Google Play & for Amazon Kindle


ROXIE'S
PUZZLE
ADVENTURE
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Finally playable as a jigsaw puzzle for all ages...amazing artwork with incredible complexity will keep adults, and children, challenged and busy for hours. Addictive! This gigantic hand-drawn maze from the award-winning "Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure" game app is divided into 16 different puzzles. Each puzzle can be played with various difficulty levels.
FEATURES:
Play on iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Android smartphones, Kindle Fire tablets • 16 highly detailed and complex illustrations • Play with up to 260 pieces (children can start with as few as 6 pieces) • Pieces can be locked in groups • For extra complexity, switch on the rotation of the pieces •  "Help" functions make it easier by showing the end result or finding the corners first. • Win 1, 2, or 3 stars depending on the complexity. • Up to 5 different players can play different puzzles. • Progress is stored, so you can continue later.
Great HORN BOOK App of the Week review
http://www.hbook.com/2014/11/choosing-books/app-review-of-the-week/roxies-puzzle-adventure/#_

Great TEACHERS WITH APPS review
http://teacherswithapps.com/app_reviews-roxies-puzzle-adventure-by-ocg-studios/

Great 148APPS review (calls it "perfect"!)
http://www.148apps.com/reviews/roxies-puzzle-adventure-review/

Great SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL review
http://www.slj.com/2013/11/reviews/apps/touch-and-go/caught-in-a-labyrinth-roxies-puzzle-adventure-touch-and-go/#_

"Roxie's Puzzle Adventure" was chosen as one of  School Library Journal's Top Ten Apps of 2013 !!
http://www.slj.com/2013/12/reviews/best-of/sljs-top-10-apps-of-2013/



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To buy the JIGSAW PUZZLE APP, click on the links below....

App Store/iTunes:    https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/roxies-puzzle-adventure/id717180704?l=nl&ls=1&mt=8


Google Play:    https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ocgstudios.rpa&hl=us

Amazon App Store:   
http://www.amazon.com/gp/mas/dl/android?p=com.ocgstudios.rpa


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Adapted from the award-winning lift-the-flap paper-engineered book, DOORS.
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To see the 60-second trailer on YouTube
(turn up the sound!),
click here:   ROXIE'S DOORS TRAILER

To see how OCG Studios made
the 3-D effects,
click here:   MAKING ROXIE'S DOORS APP
To buy ROXIE'S DOORS, click here: https://itunes.apple.com/app/roxies-doors/id450154138?mt=8



Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure
A maze & a finding/counting game with music for up to four players.

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To see the 60-second YouTube trailer,
click here:  ROXIE'S A-MAZE-ING VACATION
ADVENTURE

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To buy ROXIE'S A-MAZE-ING VACATION ADVENTURE, click here:  itunes.apple.com/app/roxies-maze-ing-vacation-adventure/id427167249?mt=8
To see how the iPAD maze app was made, in the USA and in the Netherlands,
click here:  
THE MAKING OF THE APP

To read the Developer's Note and the Artist's Note, on how they worked together, click the pdfs to the right:

OMAR'S LETTER
File Size: 1405 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

ROXIE'S LETTER
File Size: 2011 kb
File Type: pdf
Download File

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OCG Studios has created nine interactive apps for KIWiStorybooks...

Click here for more information: KIWiSTORYBOOKS

For a fun KidLit TV YouTube video with Rocco Staino of School Library Journal and me,
demonstrating KIWiStorybooks and the apps...
Click here:   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mEGv1EUoN94

Some awards for our apps:

"Roxie's Puzzle Adventure" has been selected as one of the 12  Most Addictive Games for the iPhone for 2018!!!

KIWi (Kids Interactive Walk-in)Storybooks) Apps: Teachers With Apps BEST APPS of 2014!!

148Apps: Roxie's Puzzle Adventure - "Perfect!"

Best Apps for Handwriting: Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure,  Teachers With Apps

Roxie's Bundle (all three apps) chosen by Fun Educational Apps: Top Kids Bundle

Roxie's Doors: 2014 Best Book Apps

Summer of Fun & Learning (AppyMall)

Roxie's Doors: Ranked in 65 countries

Roxie's Puzzle Adventure:  Chosen as Top Ten Apps of the Year, School Library Journal

5 STARS from Digital Storytime!

Common Sense Media: Both Roxie's apps got 5 STARS! and Doors got a "Hidden Gem Award"

Maze app: Selling in 75 countries

Maze app: Chosen by the HORN BOOK as one of the Best Kids apps in last two years!

"Roxie's Doors" -   Most Beautifully Illustrated Apps Choice by Digital Storytime!

1st Runnerup, 2011 Best Kids Game App Ever Awards

Both:  Raves from the Horn Book, Kirkus, SLJ, others...

Click here: Roxie's a-MAZE-ing Vacation Adventure reviews

Cllck here:  Roxie's Doors reviews

To order any of these apps for any device, click here:  App Store


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  FREE app for the iPad, iPhone, and Android
  made by  Bo Zaunders and OCG Studios...
  Here's how they made it -
  Click here:   The Making of The Artist Mortimer
  Download it FREE in the iTunes Store...
  Click here:     The Artist Mortimer

"The Artist Mortimer" was built by
OCG Studios' Develop Your Own Framework, in which you supply most of the content/assets, and OCG Studios builds it for you at a discount.


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 There's a new Mortimer 2 app out!  Mortimer SAVES the world...

Click here:   https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-artist-mortimer-2/id1178016758?mt=8
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Written for Digital Storytime blog on the fundamentals of app-making for children's book authors and illustrators:
Click here: 
   Making children's apps

Short guest blog piece written for  ALA's  ALSC (Association for Library Service to Children)
Click here:
   ALSC blog on Making Apps

An interview with Roxie on apps and The Future of Children's Books on NPR's "All Things Considered"
Click here: 
    The Future of Children's Books

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