Bugs and Buttons

UNIVERSAL APP SUPPORTS

IPOD TOUCH, IPHONE & IPAD




App Store Rewind 2011 in the US!
Best of the iPhone Education category!
Bugs and Buttons is a uniquely styled collection of 18 games and activities that are both entertaining and educational. The application goes beyond simply great graphics and beautiful music by engaging the child through intriguing game play that progressively adapts. Designed to be self paced, the child can choose to be guided through activities or interactively explore and play.

Languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese (Simplified & Traditional).

SIMPLY STUNNING

Beautifully designed graphics combined with whimsical and fun music provide an engaging and intriguing experience for all of the senses.

IT'S REWARDING

Earn and collect over 40 achievements through game play. To add even more interest, there's even a few hidden throughout to find. Look close and explore.

ADAPTIVE PLAY

Learn, play, and grow together with adaptive play. Activities are designed to be played by everyone while automatically adapting to the user's skill level for unfrustrated awesome.

SKILLS GALORE

From basics to advanced, it's packed with skills. Some of those skills include interactive counting, fast paced sorting, crazy quick tracking, problem solving with path finding, fine motor skills like pinching, and lots more!

MULTITOUCH GOODNESS

Take advantage of your iOS device's advanced multitouch capabilities by interacting with lots of objects at once, and even perform fine motor skills such as pinching to grab.

PROBLEM SOLVING

Interact with insects by drawing pathways through mazes. Disguised as great fun, many of the activities reinforce important skills such as problem solving. shhh! Don't tell them its educational too!


Activity Description Progressive*
1. Bees-eye Fling bees at a target flower using a dandelion slingshot. yes
2. Patterns Complete progressively complex patterns made with buttons. yes
3. Counting Count varying groups of bugs that scurry on screen (supports interactive tap to count). yes
4. Tic-Tac-Toe Play tic-tac-toe against an ever smart dragonfly. yes
5. Catch 'em Track and tap ants, charging roaches, and a swarm of bees. no
6. Button Sorting Quickly sort buttons into the correct boxes using one or two hands. yes
7. Factory Sorting Help clean the conveyor belt by catching and sorting bugs into jars. yes
8. Apple Pickin' Pick apples, dodge bees, and fill the basket. yes
9. Connect Dots Connect dots to complete numeric sequences that create shapes. no
10. Button Truck Track and tap buttons bouncing off of Uncle Bob's truck. yes
11. Bug-Mazing Lead an ant or a bee to the goal by tracing your finger along the path. no
12. Firefly Sky Catch the matching color fireflies before time runs out. yes
13. Roach Racing Race your roach against others by alternating taps as quickly as possible. yes
14. Pinch & Grab Catch tarantulas and ants or recycle cans and cardboard by pinching/dragging. no
15. Butterfly Valley Fly a butterfly through dandelion goals by tilting the device side to side. yes
16. Find it! Watch closely as the ant's location changes, then find it when it stops. yes
17. Matching Play three rounds of matching with button styles and upper/lowercase letters. no
18. Letter Train** Complete sequences by filling the missing letter. no

* Activities marked as progressive will adapt to the child's skill level. As the child does well, the difficulty increases. To avoid frustration, the level will also decrease when the child makes mistakes. To give users of all skill levels a period of play, the activities will adjust for a period of time before going into bonus mode. Once in bonus mode, the game will increase difficulty until the child makes a mistake to end the game. This lets even the hardened players strive for higher scores.

** Letter Train is only available in English and French languages.