Great news Q Racer fans. We’ve decided that we want to get Q Racer into as many hands as possible so we’re offering it FREE for a limited time. That’s right! It costs you ZERO dollars and you get the full version. Act quick and download your copy now…before we change our minds
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Great news Q Racer fans! Apple has approved and released our 1st update for Q Racer. This is an exciting update that includes:

Game Center Achievements: Now you can login using Game Center and see how many achievements you can master.
Updates to Lists: Updated the U.S. Senators, U.S. State and Territories Governors, and Important People in [...]

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” [...]

It’s been a long journey for us here at Hug a Panda, but we are now very happy to announce the release of our first iPhone game, Q Racer!

If you guys aren’t familiar, Pimsleur is a language learning methodology and system.  It was developed by Dr. Paul Pimsleur who studied how people learned languages.  His research led to his theory of graduated recall which basically said that not only was repetition important for memorizing vocabulary, but equally important is at what time intervals [...]

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 [...]

I thought I would do a post on some of the lessons I’ve learned after going through one round of “beta” testing with Q Racer.  Especially since after our last beta testing round we decided to delay our game (not a good sign, right).
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Time flies when you’re having fun doesn’t it?  While we were having fun, unfortunately we missed our launch deadline for Q Racer.

We were aiming to bring you the super hyper-awesome-est iPhone game since Enviro-Bear this past November, but seeing that it’s already the middle of December, I regret to inform you that we have failed [...]

After my last post where I learned how much gamers love KFC (and more importantly how much KFC likes advertising towards gamers) I had an epiphany of sorts.  I called together an emergency team meeting.  This was important.
As we are a new iPhone game development company I wanted to give our readers some insight how [...]

Alright, so I finally got around to finishing the Hug a Panda website.  I had something up previously but it was pretty sorry looking as websites go.  (I should have taken a screen shot!)
Anyway, most of our time has been focused on getting our soon to be launched iPhone game which we are calling “Q [...]