Get your balloons and party hats out, The Counting Kingdom has released!  Today is a day of magic, monsters and math – please help us spread the word!

Founder Jenna Hoffstein is speaking this week at two sessions during Casual Connect, the premiere event for the casual games industry:

Indie Entrepreneurship: Lessons from the Trenches

Wednesday 2:00 – 2:50, Imperial Ballroom

Indie is not just about a certain visual aesthetic or gameplay experimentation.  Indie is also about being economically sustainable and having the means to keep creating independently.  Thriving, let alone surviving, as an indie requires an entrepreneurial skill set (and tenacity) not often discussed.  This panel will explore the entrepreneurial side of “indieness” as we hear from four different indie studio co-founders and leaders.

Designing Educational Games for Fun: Throwing Out the Chocolate-Covered Broccoli

Thursday, 2:00 – 2:20, Imperial Ballroom

Educational games struggle, and often fail, to provide entertaining experiences while delivering high-quality educational content.  Instead of rewarding players with fun for getting an answer right, this talk will explore how to make the learning itself fun.

We’re incredibly proud to share that The Counting Kingdom has been nominated for the Indie Prize Showcase at Casual Connect ’14!  We’ll be flying out to San Francisco in July to exhibit the game at Casual Connect and to attend the Indie Prize Ceremony.

Keep your fingers crossed for us!

We’ve hit a huge milestone here at Little Worlds Interactive, and we’re so excited to share that The Counting Kingdom is now available on Steam Early Access!

Steam is one of the biggest distributors of PC and Mac games, and we’re so proud to be part of their Early Access platform to interact with players as we continue to develop the game.

Jump on in and please help us share the exciting news!

The Counting Kingdom on Steam

Get your spellbook ready!  It’s time to protect The Counting Kingdom in this tactical math puzzler featuring strategic tower defense gameplay and a colorful cast of characters. Banish monsters and save the day!

Downloaded the game?  Let us know on Twitter: @LittleWorldsInt

Freedom, Happiness, and Bananas!

The world got a little freakier on May 1, 2014 as Disco Pixel released their genre-bending rhythm game, Jungle Rumble. The app store featured it on the front page. It jumped to the top of the music game charts. It ushered in a new era of world peace and prosperity. One of these statements is an exaggeration. You can find it in the app store here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/jungle-rumble-freedom-happiness/id816012589 Or if you prefer reading about something before spending your hard earned dough, you can check out some reviews here: Indie Gems 148 Apps Pocket Gamer Look at it soar up the charts!

PAX East was a whirlwind, but what a weekend! A HUGE thank you to everyone who stopped by to play the game – we had kids, parents, teachers, and gamers of all sorts taking their turn to defend the kingdom!

Spells were cast, monsters were defeated, and the day was saved many times over. Everyone loved the puzzle-like mechanics of the game, and had a blast adding their way to victory!