LetterSchool, a handwriting game for the little ones

New iOS game for kids released — LetterSchool. It is advertised like the coolest handwriting game for iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch.

LetterSchool is a game for children between 4 and 6 years old to let them learn all about the letters of the alphabet. Not just how they sound, which words go with them, but also how to actually write them. Apps for this age group are often created quite simple, but for developers it seemed like a fun idea to go a few steps further in terms of gaming experience. They wanted things to be super responsive, and animations to run buttery smooth.

Although the game engine is fully 3D-capable, the 3D aspect isn’t used very much. This is because the target audience has a hard enough time already with learning letters in 2 dimensions.

There’s also a huge toolset built around this product. There’s a particle editor, animation curves editor, material and textures editor and a few specialized editors for all the font-related stuff (there’s even a font metrics editor), all built from zero. And then there are tools to facilitate the production of different language versions (that will have to contain different fonts too). This is the US-English version, but scheduled next are Spanish, French, German, GB-English and Dutch. More languages may follow.

Game developers think that different modes of gaming and fonts will help kids to master letters and numbers faster

Source: gamedev.net, letterschool.com