The fine folks over at Serious Games Market were kind enough to feature Q Racer in a blog post called “iPad and iPhone helping to create a Learning Ecosystem.”  If you aren’t familiar with the term “serious game” it’s defined  according to wikipedia as:
A game designed for a primary purpose other than pure entertainment. The “serious” [...]

I’ve complained in the past about the lack of educational games choices for adults.  It seemed to me that once you pass 5 years old that your educational game choices disappear.  However after digging around a little bit it turns out there are some pretty decent choices out there (in addition to Q Racer of [...]

Techcrunch featured an article on a report by Distimo (a mobile phone analytics company) which showed how different categories of games performs in Apple’s App Store.  The bottom line is that Action, Adventure, and Arcade games seem to sell the most.  Since I wouldn’t classify Q Racer as Action, Adventure, or Arcade…This got me thinking…how [...]

Since we are working on an educational game (Q Racer) I’m always curious to see what other educational games have to offer.  I’ve complained about past educational games before (normally for their lack of fun) so I’m always on the look out for the truly innovative educational games.
Here are two gems I found courtesy of [...]

For those of you who don’t know, the Digital Media Learning Competition is an annual competition started in 2007 funded by the government and other non-profit organizations (HASTAC and the MacArthur Foundation) to award grants to help individuals and organizations come up with “the most novel uses of new media in support of learning.”
This year’s [...]

This is a topic I’ve been meaning to write a post about for some time now, namely what an educational game should look like.  Or probably better worded, what educational gaming means to me (and ultimately what we’re trying to do here at Hug a Panda).
The allure of educational games
For a long time people have [...]