Naturally, a dodo isn't the best thing to be. Are You A Dodo? gets its name from how players are, at each game's end, assigned an animal to represent their score. I was floored by several challenges, most notably the one that made you count the number of tiles on screen while pressured by a timer. At first impression, the game's cartoony art style, child-like appeal, and child-friendly mini games make you go 'meh' and proclaim it an app for kids.ĭig a little deeper into the mini games available, though, and prepare to be stumped. That was the direction we had in mind for the design of this game."Īre You A Dodo? is actually a lot more challenging that one would expect. But if you aren't, you'll still be able to enjoy and appreciate everything that has been designed. If you're a reader of her books, you'll recognise the game, you'll get all the references. At the same time, it would be designed specifically not to exclude the target audience Adelene had in mind. We said we'd create a game that had wide international appeal. "The initial proposal we did with Adelene was very simple. However Loo disagreed that this would be a step backward in reaching out to the mobile game market.
Unlike Pixel People, which undoubtedly has an insane universal appeal, Are You a Dodo? is tied to Singaporean children's book author Adeline Foo's series titled The Diary of Amos Lee. Scores are recorded on local and online leaderboards, and gameplay can apparently get quite competitive. Coming up LambdaMu's pipeline is a friendly, competitive IQ game hub app called 'Are you a dodo?' which allows you to pit yourself against other players in a series of challenging mini games.