Humongous Entertainment, developer of children’s PC and Mobile games, and Toonbox animation studio have announced a publishing deal in the United States and Canada for a series of associated mobile applications based on the Kit n Kate preschool animated series. The first four games in the series made their debut on 24 May and will be available on both the iTunes App Store and Google Play. Each App includes a complete Kit n Kate episode with early learning mini games for $1.99 each. During the launch week all Kit n Kate Apps will be on sale for .99 each.
Kit n Kate is an educational television series about two small kitties who learn how to make right choices while enjoying magical adventures in their playroom. It is airing in Russia, Australia, New Zealand, Oceania (Disney Junior Australia), South Korea (EBS), and has been picked up by YLE in Finland and JimJam for Eastern Europe, Benelux, MENA, and can be watched worldwide via Kidoodle.TV, NetKids, BatteryPop, Toon Goggles, KidsWorld (Bluepin) and other VOD platforms.
“Humongous Entertainment has a 20 year tradition for the highest quality content for early learners and their parents,” said, Humongous Entertainment’s parent company, Tommo, CEO, Jonathan Wan. “We are proud to introduce Kit n Kate to our fans in North America and know they’ll enjoy these wonderful episodes and the educational games in each Kit n Kate app.”
“We put a lot of effort into production of our apps and cartoons and we are looking forward for the future cooperation with Humongous Entertainment,” said Toonbox, game producer, Ivan Ponomarev. “We tried to make them as much fun and entertaining as possible.”
Kit n Kate’s creative team includes screenwriters specialised in animated content for kids: Jymn Magon (DuckTales, Adventures of the Gummy Bears, New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Darkwing Duck), Mike de Seve (Sesame Street, Beavis and Butthead), Susan Kim (Pocoyo, Speed Racer: the Next Generation).
The apps were developed by Toonbox for iOS and Android platforms, as well as Amazon Kindle and Windows phone in the future and allow kids play with lots of interactive elements and communicate with Kit n Kate characters. The main feature of the games is the possibility to first watch the episode of the animated series which served as a basis for the game and then start playing the game itself in the relevant setting.
Some of the features that were released include, Kit n Kate Let’s Match, Kit n Kate Let’s Plant Flowers, Kit n Kate Let’s Style and Kit n Kate Let’s Draw.